Juana Bordas

Juana Bordas promotes Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age .

Juana Bordas, president of Mestiza Leadership International in Denver and vice president of the board of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, is a former faculty member for the Center for Creative Leadership—the most highly utilized executive program in the world. Juana is a founder of Mi Casa Women’s Center, was initiated into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame, and was honored as a Wise Woman by the National Center for Women’s Policy Studies. She recently served as advisor to Harvard’s Hispanic Journal on Public Policy and the Kellogg National Fellows Program. A former Peace Corps volunteer, Juana received the Franklin Miller Award from the U.S. Peace Corps for her lifelong commitment to advancing communities of color and the Leadership Legacy Award from Spellman College’s Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement. Bordas will discuss and sign the new edition of her book Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age (2nd ed.) ($22.95 Berrett-Koehler). (jpmoore)… (more)

Juana Bordas , Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age.

Juana has dedicated her career to preparing Latino leaders in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She founded Mestiza Leadership International in 1995, which specializes in training and developing a work environment that encourages diversity and effective leadership. She was the first Latina faculty member at the Center for Creative Leadership as well as the founding president and CEO of the National Hispana Leadership Institute. Formerly, Juana founded Mi Casa Resource Center for Women in Denver, Colorado. While a Peace Corps volunteer, Juana worked with low-income women in Chile.

Juana is the author of Salsa, Soul and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age, which won The International Latino Book Award for the best business book in 2008, and is a contributing author to Reflections on Leadership: How Robert K. Greenleaf’s Theory of Servant-Leadership Influenced Today’s Top Management Thinkers. She has been honored as a Wise Woman by the National Center for Women and Policy Studies. Juana currently also serves on the board of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. She is a member of the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame and was honored with Denver's 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Socially Responsibility Award. (booksense)… (more)