Speaking
Most speakers tell your audience what to do differently.
I tell them what has actually been happening and why it makes complete sense that it got them here.
I bring nearly two decades of experience across healthcare, higher education, nonprofits, the military, and the private sector. I have lived between worlds my entire life, cultures, languages, generations, and industries. That is not background color. It is what lets me walk into any room and speak to what the people in it are actually carrying.
My work blends leadership, nervous system science, and the kind of cultural and multigenerational fluency that most leadership development does not even know it is missing.
My sessions work for general leadership audiences and for Latina and women of color communities with equal depth. Both leave with somewhere real to go.
Available for keynotes, workshops, panel discussions, fireside chats, and half-day facilitation.
Keynotes
PLEASE NOTE: Some topics may be paired with private coaching sessions for leaders and teams.
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You have the resume, the track record, and the proof. And you are still pushing against something you cannot name. This talk is for the high performer who has already done everything right and is starting to wonder why that is not enough.
Miryam breaks down the specific pattern that drives early success and quietly becomes the ceiling later. Why it shows up most in your most capable people. Why working harder inside it never works. And what it actually takes to move through it and lead differently on the other side.
Best for: Leadership conferences, corporate leadership events, mixed rooms, executive offsites.
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Most high-achieving women were not taught to lead. They were taught to be indispensable. To carry more than their share, anticipate every need, and make themselves so necessary that the room could not function without them. And it worked. Until it didn't.
Because being needed and being valued are not the same thing. And at some point every woman in this room has felt the difference.
This talk is for the woman who has over-delivered her way into a role that does not pay her what she is worth, a seat at a table that still does not quite feel like hers, and a reputation built on reliability that somehow never translates into recognition. Miryam draws from her own story and years of coaching high-achieving women to name exactly how that pattern forms, why it is so hard to see from the inside, and what it takes to shift from being the woman the room depends on to being the woman the room answers to.
Best for: Women's leadership conferences, ERGs, Latina and WOC leadership summits, women in tech and corporate women's events.
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Our cultura taught us to endure, to get back up, to carry what others could not and keep moving without complaint. That resilience is not a flaw. It is a gift that crossed borders, broke ceilings, and got us into rooms nobody expected us to reach.
But resilience was never meant to be a one way door.
In this session we explore what happens when the strength that carried us here becomes the only tool we allow ourselves, when rest feels like betrayal, when asking for help feels like weakness, and when endurance becomes the ceiling instead of the floor.
Because real resilience, the kind that builds sustainable leadership and brings the next generation with us, is not just about how much we can carry. It is about expanding our capacity to lead with wisdom, rest with intention, and hold ourselves accountable to something bigger than survival.
This session holds both the light and the darkness of our cultural inheritance without letting go of either, because it is exactly that tension that makes Latino leaders irreplaceable in any room.
Participants will leave with a new understanding of resilience that honors where we come from and expands what becomes possible from here.
Best for: Latino leadership conferences, Hispanic Heritage Month events, ERGs, cultural and performance offsites.
Workshops
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Most organizations are not losing their best people to competitors. They are losing them to exhaustion, disconnection, and the slow realization that the place they work does not actually care how they feel while they perform.
Joy is not a wellness perk. It is the difference between a team that delivers because they have to and a team that delivers because they want to. That difference shows up directly in retention, creativity, and the kind of sustained performance that does not collapse the moment pressure hits.
In this session Miryam makes the business case for joy as a strategic asset and gives leaders a practical way to build it into how they lead, plan, and show up for the people counting on them.
Best for: Corporate leadership conferences, HR and people operations teams, executive offsites, manager and team lead development programs.
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Most team performance problems get diagnosed as communication issues, culture gaps, or generational clashes. Organizations spend significant budget fixing those symptoms without ever addressing what is underneath them.
The real issue is simpler and harder at the same time. When we lead with category instead of humanity we get compliance at best and conflict at worst. Neither produces the results or the culture organizations are desperate for right now.
In this session Miryam draws from her experience collaborating across military branches, foreign armed forces, and multicultural and multigenerational organizations to make the case that seeing your team as full human beings is not about lowering the bar. It is about raising it. Because when people feel genuinely seen they become more accountable, not less. More invested in the team's results, more willing to own their part, and more open to the kind of honest feedback that actually moves performance forward.
Humanity is not an excuse. It is the foundation that makes real accountability possible.
Best for: Corporate leadership conferences, HR and people operations teams, multicultural and multigenerational team offsites, DEI and culture focused leadership events.
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First generation professionals did not get a blueprint. They got a backpack. Packed with their family's dreams, their culture's expectations, the pressure to prove they belonged, and the unspoken rule that they had to carry all of it without ever letting anyone see how heavy it was.
They figured it out anyway. They always do. But figuring it out alone, for so long, leaves a mark on how they lead, how they earn, and how they show up in rooms that still do not always feel like theirs.
This session is for first generation professionals who have climbed without a map and are now leading in spaces they were never shown how to navigate. Miryam draws from her own first generation immigrant experience to name the specific patterns that form when you build success from survival, why those patterns are so hard to see from the inside, and what becomes possible when you start leading from choice instead of from the weight of everything you have been carrying.
This is not a talk about overcoming your background. It is a talk about understanding how your background shaped the leader you are and deciding which parts you carry forward on your own terms.
Best for: Latino and first generation ERGs, Hispanic Heritage Month programming, first generation leadership conferences, multicultural professional development events.
Engage Miryam for Your Event
Bring Miryam’s unique topics to your organization. Miryam is available for a variety of events, including conferences, seminars, panel discussions, fireside chats, and interactive workshops.
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