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I have had the opportunity to meet with (President Trump) back in March. “It’s undeniable that we’re going through an interesting time in the United States. She is a “World Economic Forum Young Global Leader” as well as co-founder and CEO of CIEN+ - a firm that helps leaders and Fortune 500 companies unlock “the power of today’s diverse marketplace.” Lili has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post and CNN Money. We’re seeing today in pop culture, food, innovation – we just need to turn it on as the superpower that it is.” Those that can activate cultural intelligence can deliver more innovation, more profits and grow and stand out from the crowd. When somebody is able to activate their cultural understanding and turn it into value, then cultural advantage and cultural understanding can indeed turn into cultural intelligence. I always got people defaulting to Pablo Escobar – but what I realised was that there was a cultural gap with most people I was meeting. Today Lili is a regular on Fox News and CNN, commenting on multicultural news and the Hispanic economy and also dispelling misconceptions. Despite these challenges, her American dream came true. Originally from Bogota, Colombia, Lili Gil Valletta arrived in the United States at the age of 17 with a student visa, a pocket book translator and not a word of English. The keynote speaker is international award winning entrepreneur Lili Gil Valletta whose message is you don’t have to be brown to be culturally intelligent. “I’m talking about having the capacity to be aware of, understand and apply cultural competence into everyday business.” – Lili Gil Valletta.Īt the recent Superdiverse Women’s Conference in Auckland, the country’s top female leaders in business met to challenge the status quo. But the “Brown Elephant” is the growing Latino market that the United States has chosen to dismiss.

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“If we can support women when they are inside computing and technical careers and really allow them to reach the stage where they are running companies, provide them with the mentorship, the venture capital, if we have men who are willing to be mentored by and collaborate with women actively, not just mentor them, but be willing to be led by women, that way we can encourage women to really become part of and continue as part of technology as a field.Subscribe to Voices for free on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen to your podcasts.Īn “Elephant in the room” is an obvious problem no-one wants to discuss. So anything you're designing, if it doesn't have a female perspective, you're probably going to have an incomplete perspective.” Lili Gil Valletta (Co-Founder and CEO, CIEN+ and Culturintel and doing the right thing.It's about recognizing that 80 percent of consumer spending decisions in this country are done by a woman. “I think we need both men and women together realizing that getting more women in tech is not about being P.C. We talk to Lili and Amanda about building a culture of mentorship around women in AI, how they can be strength in vulnerability and the importance of creating pathways for non-traditional backgrounds to work in AI. In this episode of IBM thinkLeaders podcast, we are joined by guests Lili Gil Valletta (Co-Founder and CEO, CIEN+ and Culturintel) & Amanda Stent (Natural Language Processing Architect in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg). How can we increase the number of women in AI? What is the role of successful women in AI to provide future opportunities? How should businesses be adjusting?

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