Leadership

Codie Sanchez JONESWORKS
Codie Sanchez Invests in Small Business Owners

Codie Sanchez Seeks to Create More Ownership with her new book, Own Or Be Owned

René Rodriguez Volentum
René Rodriguez Will Make You Impossible to Ignore

René Rodriguez is a leading authority on leadership and influence for a reason.

Bobby Herrera Populus Group
Bobby Herrera Says we need more Sages than CEOs – we don’t have Enough Teachers

Bobby Herrera is hoping to multiply more leaders willing to invest their time in others

Executives to Watch September 2026
Executives to Watch: September 2026

In our September Executives to Watch, meet nine Hispanic executives pushing their industries to the next level.

AI Prompts for Executives
AI Prompts for Executives: Stop Asking Better Questions. Start Designing Better Thinking.

The most useful executive prompts may not be the ones that get AI to answer faster. They are the ones that introduce friction, expose uncertainty, and force both human and machine to think differently.

Pico y Pala by Sergio Barajas
Pico Y Pala: It’s a Wrap! Now the Real Work Begins

AVANCE is over, but for the National Hispanic Construction Alliance the real work is just starting, with new partners, new chapters, and a Construction Village

Avance Global 2026
Beyond the Numbers: What AVANCE Global Leaves Behind

More than 5,000 people gathered at AVANCE Global in Las Vegas. Decades of research on proximity, weak ties, and shared identity explain what that scale sets in motion.

Gabriel Regus Hispanics in Tech
Gabriel Regus Is Building the Pathways He Never Inherited

A dentist’s son from Washington Heights, Gabriel Regus now helps decide which emerging technologies earn a place on the electric grid—and is building the pathways into tech he never inherited

Patty Juarez Wells Fargo
Patty Juarez Makes Financial Literacy Personal at Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo’s Executive Vice President of External Engagement brings three decades of access, representation, and financial literacy to AVANCE Global

Pico y Pala by Sergio Barajas
Pico Y Pala: The Workforce That Keeps Building America

This Labor Day, the Hispanic construction workforce deserves recognition—for its persistence through adversity and for the America it keeps building

Pedro Guerrero AVANCE Global
Six thousand people are coming to Las Vegas. Pedro Guerrero has been watching it come together from the inside.

As AVANCE Global brings 6,000 people to Las Vegas, the founder of Hispanic Executive reflects on a merger, a new media brand for U.S. Latinos, and the relationships that made it all possible

Gary Acosta NAHREP
Gary Acosta Is Building AVANCE Global Into a Bigger Tent

NAHREP CEO Gary Acosta on a bigger AVANCE Global, new tracks in women’s leadership and sports, and why his organization is moving into media

The Latino Stories That Helped Build Las Vegas
The Latino Stories That Helped Build Las Vegas

Latino history in Las Vegas starts long before the Strip: Mexican scouts, railroad workers, Cuban entrepreneurs, and immigrant hotel workers built the city.

Why Every Company Is Becoming a Media Company
Why Every Company Is Becoming a Media Company

As attention fragments and buyers educate themselves, distribution and audience ownership are becoming business capabilities, not just marketing functions

Pico y Pala by Sergio Barajas
Pico Y Pala: The Excitement Is Building: NHCA at AVANCE Is Almost Here

NHCA at AVANCE Global arrives September 14–16 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, where construction leaders will find sessions, capital access, and relationships

Patty Arvielo New American Funding
Patty Arvielo runs the country’s largest Latina-owned mortgage lender. This September she brings Thrive and Lead to the Bellagio at AVANCE Global.

The New American Funding cofounder brings her Thrive and Lead mentorship program to AVANCE Global, with a roster of women she knows personally and a hard line against what she calls fluencers

The Founder Skills Most Likely to Matter by 2030
The Founder Skills Most Likely to Matter by 2030

AI is making sophisticated business capabilities cheaper and more accessible. The founders who win the next decade may be distinguished less by what they can personally execute and more by what they know how to orchestrate.

Pico y Pala by Sergio Barajas
Pico Y Pala: The Missing Middle Isn’t Just Housing—It’s Builders

The missing middle isn’t just housing—it’s builders. NHCA’s Build the Builder program is opening pathways for emerging contractors, tradespeople and developers

The Hidden Economics of Trust Inside Organizations
The Hidden Economics of Trust Inside Organizations

Trust rarely appears on a balance sheet. But research suggests the economics of trust show up in approvals, monitoring, and the rising cost of coordination

Rose Marie Glazer AIG
Rose Marie Glazer is a Large Cap Public Company General Counsel at AIG

How a small gift from her parents fueled Glazer’s career success

Edda Santiago Covenant House International
Edda Santiago is the Queen of Reinvention at Covenant House International

Who walks away from big law money to focus on combating homelessness? Edda Santiago.