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Breaking the Cultural Codes That Keep Latino Leaders Silent

Audiences will leave able to:
• Recognize an inherited assumption keeping an idea, conversation, or ambition on hold.
• Understand how conflicting expectations can be mistaken for a lack of confidence or potential.
• Choose one action to move forward and one way to help others contribute.

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Audiences will leave able to:
• Identify an inherited cultural rule shaping their choices.
• Recognize when a cherished value has become a limit on speaking up, asking for help, or pursuing an opportunity.
• Choose one concrete action that makes room for both their roots and their ambitions.

Best for: Latino leadership conferences, employee resource groups, and university audiences.

The Physics of Getting Unstuck:
Unlocking Possibility at Work and in Life

What if a rule shaping your choices today was one you learned at home? In this interactive keynote, filmmaker and What Will They Say? author Denise Soler Cox explores how messages rooted in love and loyalty can make speaking up or pursuing an ambition feel like betrayal. Drawing on her experience as a first-generation Puerto Rican Latina, she guides audiences through a powerful exercise to name an inherited rule, notice its influence, and choose a new response. Her message: you can honor where you come from without abandoning where you want to go.

What looks like a lack of confidence may be a collision between the values we grew up with and the expectations we encounter at work. Through personal storytelling and an unexpected lesson from her daughter’s physics homework, Denise Soler Cox helps audiences recognize what keeps their ideas and ambitions on hold, and what helps them move again. She also invites leaders to consider what becomes possible when people can contribute without hiding parts of themselves to belong.

Best for: Corporate audiences, leadership conferences, and women’s events.