Mari Carmen Pizarro

Jumping the Curve for Hispanic Success

While the Hispanic population is a growing force in the United States, and well represented in the consumer and labor force, we are disproportionately underrepresented in top leadership. We are the second largest racial and ethnic group in America, second to White non-Hispanics, and yet we occupy only 4% of the top leadership positions in Fortune 500 organizations. How can we empower Hispanic leaders to take ownership of their success trajectory?

In Mari Carmen’s research, she has found that what matters is not just achieving that one peak of high performance (also known as climbing your current S-curve). Instead, she explores the equal importance of the moves you must make on the way to your next level of success; in other words, continually striving to jump to your future S-curve.

Mari Carmen reveals vital insights by including :

• What do the biggest and brightest miss and why traditional long-term business planning won’t help you find the insights that are fundamental to high performance.
• Why you must add new players to your team before the performance starts to wane. When things are good. (This miss is very evident in the political realm.)
• How to emulate the modus operandi of businesses that succeed with one re-invention after another, through both good times and bad.
• The gift of diversity of thought in leadership roles for companies as a whole.

Latina Success: There’s Room at the Top

In this talk, Mari invites the audience to create an environment for personal and professional development geared toward developing the talent that Hispanic and Latin women already bring to the table. She highlights the fact that the general conversation around female leaders is simply wrong, misleading, and minimizing, and uses data to prove it. She reminds women that it is OK to bring your authentic self to the table; the unique gifts of one’s Hispanic heritage and culture can be used in service to those they lead.

• In her inspirational talk, Mari Carmen reminds all leaders that there are proven business benefits for your team and for your organization when you become an ally in supporting Hispanic and Latin women to thrive as leaders.

Emotional intelligence; the other kind of smart.

It just happens that decades of research confirm that it is not average IQ, but Emotional Intelligence the critical ingredient that sets the most top performers from the rest of the pack.  Emotional intelligence might be intangible, but it’s mighty.

Audience members learn:

• Healthy levels of emotional intelligence are a predictor of success, and it is the secret sauce for effective leaders to manage their emotions so that they can successfully navigate social complexities, stress-ridden projects, decision making, and conflict situations.
• Self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management in this engaging and thought-provoking talk.

Chatter that Glass Ceiling

Only 4.6% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. Who is responsible for that? If you’re frustrated with the gender gap, take a step back and get curious: What part of that gap is a direct result of how we women act, react or deal with men and women in the workplace? Moreover, what can we do about it?

Audience members learn:

• Based on extensive global research, this talk takes participants through a journey of self-discovery and exploration so that they can tackle the most common myths about gender disparity, become more influential and command respect in any room.

Why Motivational Leadership is Not Sustainable (And what to do instead)

While motivating your team can feel inspiring, it is not enough for employees to become efficient, happy, and successful at work. In fact, there are very distinct reasons why relying solely on motivation will not get your team to the next level.

In this engaging talk, Mari Carmen shares:

• The most common myths about motivating employees to action and how creating the disciplines for success is the only way to sustain high levels of employee performance and joy in the workplace.

Jumping Curves:

In Mari Carmen’s research, she has found that what matters is not just achieving that one peak of high performance or what she calls climbing your current S-curve (which is what you do to reach the top of a single successful business.) Instead, she explores the equal importance of the moves you must make on the way to your next peak; in other words, jumping to your future S-curve.

Mari reveals vital insights by including :

• What do the biggest and brightest miss and why traditional long-term business
  planning won’t help you find the market insights that are fundamental to high performance.
• Why you must add new players to your team before the performance starts to wane. When things are good. (This miss is very evident in the political realm.)
• How to emulate the modus operandi of businesses that succeed with one re-invention after another, through both good times and bad.

Breaking Through High-Performance Barriers

This talk outlines the root causes of nasty politics and dysfunction on teams composed of high performing individuals, and the strategies to overcoming them.

Audience members learn:

• As a leader, it is crucial to identify the barriers which hinder development. Mari Carmen designed this keynote to identify whether the barrier is real or self-imposed. As a result, you will be on your way to success again, leaving the obstacles behind.
•  The root causes of team dysfunction are both identifiable and correctable. Making the team fully functional and cohesive
  requires levels of trust, courage, and discipline that many groups cannot seem to muster.
• This is an adjustable keynote. A ½ day workshop and a one day with team assessments included.