Andrea Guendelman: Leadership Expert
Leadership keynote speaker Andrea Guendelman unlocks expansive leadership through openness, blending business strategy and mindful growth to help teams innovate, collaborate
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- Expert in Expansive Leadership and mindful transformation
- Harvard-trained corporate lawyer turned tech entrepreneur
- Co-creator of Bevisiblelatinx, Wallbreakers and Speak
- Leader in building platforms for minority professionals in tech
- Formats: Keynote speaker on expansive leadership, innovation, mindful growth, inclusion and transformational organizational culture.
- Audiences: Executives, emerging leaders, tech teams, diversity-focused organizations, higher education institutions and audiences seeking personal and professional expansion.
- Outcomes:
- Clear understanding of Expansive Leadership and how openness fuels innovation and collaboration.
- Practical tools for integrating mindfulness and strategy to elevate performance.
- Renewed confidence to lead with authenticity, inclusivity and visionary thinking.
- Travels from: Denver, CO
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
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Keynote Topics:
Finding Purpose and Cultivating Spirituality:
A User Guide for Engineers and Technologists
A background in engineering and computer science can help individuals solve massive and complex questions. But what about the most important questions of all:
- What is my purpose?
- How do I find fulfillment in my work and my life?
- How do I stay centered and find peace and even joy amidst the turbulence of career and day-to-day crises?
This talk or workshop aims to help engineers and technologists step out of immediate problem-solving mode to ask and find answers to these larger questions.
It aims both to take participants out of their comfort zone but, at the same time, create a roadmap to find their purpose zone. The seminar will provide participants with tools to cultivate their spiritual side.
Moving the Needle on Diversity Hiring
Companies looking to turbocharge their diversity hiring don’t need to get more “soft focus” – they need to get more rigorous. By spending more time defining the skill sets they need and articulating how a diverse workforce helps them serve the needs of an increasingly global marketplace for customers, companies cannot only eliminate implicit bias.
They can also make their hiring processes more efficient, saving valuable employee time, minimizing the talent that leaks out of their hiring pipeline, and maximizing their probability of recruiting and retaining candidates who can contribute to teams on day one.
What do Social Movements and Startups Have in Common?
Leaders building a social movement and founders of startups face a common set of challenges.
- How can they sustain the initial burst of energy?
- How do their ideas translate into institutions without losing either their values or their entrepreneurial spark?
Ethical AI: Why Try To Eliminate Bias In AI When You Can Use AI To Eliminate Bias?
Historically, companies have tended to blame their lack of diversity on a lack of minorities and women in the talent pipeline. With the advent of AI-driven hiring processes, bias has crept into the filtering process, creating a huge disparity in the opportunities available to candidates – especially affecting candidates of diverse and underrepresented groups.
Companies are now paying more attention and some are trying to address that problem. Apple recently pledged $100 million to President Obama’s ConnectED initiative to bring cutting-edge technologies to economically disadvantaged schools. But a lack of resources, while troubling, is not the root cause of the lack of diversity in the pipeline. Janice Cuny, who directs the Computer Education program at the National Science Foundation, says African-American and Latinx computer science graduates are invisible to these companies – “There are these subtle biases that make you think that some person is not what you’re looking for, even when they are.”
In this talk, Andrea dives deep into the problems with current AI and goes further with the solutions and ways tech employers can use smart tech to eliminate unconscious bias.
Other topics include:
- Latinx Career Building
- Creating Diverse Workforces
- Future of Work
- Skills Gap: Between Traditional Education and Industry
- Building Communities
- Principles of Leadership
- Building Resilience
- The Entrepreneurial Journey (including the importance of death valleys)
- Building Influence
- Tackling Your Next Leadership Phase: Developing your Mark as a Leader through Internal Growth
- The Mark of Inclusive Leaders
Talent Short Bio
Andrea Guendelman is a writer, entrepreneur and leadership speaker known for pioneering the concept of Expansive Leadership—an approach that empowers individuals and organizations to unlock potential through openness, curiosity and intentional growth. With a career that bridges corporate law, technology, entrepreneurship and spiritual development, Andrea offers a multidimensional perspective that resonates with today’s evolving leadership landscape.
A Harvard-trained corporate lawyer turned founder, Andrea has built influential platforms that elevate minority talent and transform the tech ecosystem. She co-created Bevisiblelatinx, Wallbreakers and Speak, initiatives designed to connect diverse computer science graduates with companies seeking inclusive teams and future-ready talent. Her work reflects a lifelong commitment to expanding opportunity, dismantling barriers and building communities where creativity and belonging can thrive.
In addition to her entrepreneurial ventures, Andrea has curated major conferences and festivals on technology, social entrepreneurship and diversity, featuring luminaries such as Al Gore and Devendra Banhart. Her leadership philosophy emphasizes the interplay between self-awareness and strategic action, helping leaders navigate complexity while staying grounded in purpose and authenticity.
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Andrea Guendelman is a writer, speaker, and entrepreneur who specializes in Expansive Leadership—helping individuals and organizations unlock potential through openness.
She is a leading force in creating platforms for minority professionals and the tech industry. Through her own experiences as a Harvard-trained corporate lawyer and an entrepreneur, she co-created Bevisiblelatinx, Wallbreakers, and most recently, Speak – a solution to connect talented computer science majors from universities across the country with companies hungry for talent and looking to build inclusive teams.
Through her deep and varied background, Andrea has come to embody an inspiring and unique kind of alchemy, fluidly transitioning between the worlds of business and spiritual growth. Her strength derives from the intersection of these forces and allows her to bring a unique energy and mindfulness forged with keen business acumen to her work, the speaking stage, and to those around her.
Andrea has curated major conferences and festivals on social entrepreneurship, technology, and diversity, drawing hundreds or thousands of individuals, speakers, and performers ranging from Al Gore to Devendra Banhart.
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Overview:
Andrea is highly praised for her role as a supporter and advocate for Latino/a millennials through her platform, Be Visible. Users highlight her ability to inspire and foster meaningful connections, particularly during her keynote at the Hera Venture Summit, where she delivered an honest and relatable talk that resonated with the audience. Reviewers commend her for encouraging attendees to think big and engage with diverse leaders, making a positive impact on the global economy.
Strengths:
- Inspiring speaker with a genuine and relatable approach.
- Strong advocate for Latino/a millennials.
- Effective at fostering professional development and connections.
Weaknesses:
- No significant weaknesses were mentioned in the reviews.
Overall, Andrea comes highly recommended for speaking engagements and professional events.
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