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“It has been my pleasure to know and to work with Andres for more than 15 years. He is a gifted teacher, facilitator, and coach whose core gift is nurturing and activating the core of personal power that lies within each of us. In my work as a leader and as an educator of leaders, I have experienced so many leaders who have fallen victim to the cultural myth that “to be a leader who is sensitive to others is to be a weak leader. Many of those leaders found themselves feeling very conflicted about what to do with their gifts of sensitivity and their ability to tune into others at both emotional and, even, somatic levels. And the more that they tried to stifle those gifts and suppress their gifts of emotional intelligence they found themselves feeling de-energized and out of touch with themselves.

I am so glad that Andres has chosen to share his journey including the self-doubts, and struggles as well as how he grew through those challenges. As a result of his life experiences and his skills of introspection and self-awareness, he has become adept at helping others to grow through realization of their inner conflicts and to summon the courage to move beyond the restrictive comfort zones imposed by our false notions of “strong leadership” and, thus, develop the kind of integrity which serves as their foundation for the kind of authentic courageous leadership which is so needed.”

— Jim Robinson, Executive Director, Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, The George Washington University