{"id":11840,"date":"2011-04-27T09:33:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=11840"},"modified":"2011-04-27T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:33:19","slug":"college-supports-effort-to-boost-hispanic-leadership-advancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/04\/college-supports-effort-to-boost-hispanic-leadership-advancement\/","title":{"rendered":"College supports effort to boost Hispanic leadership advancement."},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent studies show that Hispanics represent the fastest growing workplace population, with dynamic growth and purchasing power estimated at $1.3 trillion by 2014. Yet, according to a recent Pew Hispanic Center survey, 74% of Latinos polled said they either didn\u2019t know of a national Hispanic leader or thought there wasn\u2019t one.<\/p>\n

To help correct this perception and drive real change when it comes to the advancement of Hispanic leadership in corporate America, the College of Business Administration partnered with the California-based Center for Hispanic Leadership (CHL) to host the kick-off of the Hispanic Leadership Tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cHispanics can play a critical role in corporate growth and expansion initiatives, but the challenge is that most corporations haven\u2019t learned how to manage and develop their Hispanic leaders,\u201d said Glenn Llopis, CHL founder and chief executive officer.<\/p>\n

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Glenn Llopis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Held on the Florida International University (FIU) campus, the one-day Hispanic Leadership Tour event focused on what corporations can do to locate, mentor and nurture Hispanic talent. Participation in the event was a natural fit for the college.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are fortunate to have a large and diverse Hispanic student population and a long history of building relationships with corporations that recognize the strengths that these talented and hardworking individuals bring to the workplace,\u201d said Joyce J. Elam<\/strong>, executive dean.<\/p>\n

Insightful panel discussion gets to the heart of the matter.<\/em><\/p>\n

Moderated by Luis Casas<\/strong>, director, marketing, communications and recruiting, one of the afternoon\u2019s executive roundtable sessions brought together three executives to answer questions such as: Why aren\u2019t there more Hispanics in Fortune 500 executive positions? What role should Hispanics be playing in the executive suite? And is Hispanic marketing a niche or mainstream activity?<\/p>\n

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Moderator Luis Casas with panelists Francisco Bethencourt, Luis Vargas and Miriam Muley at one of the executive roundtable sessions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Panel participants included Francisco Bethencourt, director, Hispanic Market Strategy, Pepsi Beverages Company; Miriam Muley, CEO, The 85% Niche, LLC; and Luis Vargas, director, Neighborhood Marketing Hispanic, Winn-Dixie Stores Inc.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis forum provided an excellent opportunity to bring together Hispanic leaders to discuss the reasons behind the under-representation of Hispanics in executive leadership positions,\u201d Casas said. \u201cWe also talked about the important role education can play in changing this scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following the event, Casas continued the discussion in an interview on CNN Dinero<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent studies show that Hispanics represent the fastest growing workplace population, with dynamic growth and purchasing power estimated at $1.3 trillion by 2014. Yet, according to a recent Pew Hispanic Center survey, 74% of Latinos polled said they either didn\u2019t know of a national Hispanic leader or thought there wasn\u2019t one. To help correct this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1405],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}