Future-Proof Your Business: Why Leaders Need a Cultural Intelligence® Mindset for Growth [Video]

Lili Gil Valletta is a former corporate executive turned award-winning entrepreneur, television business contributor, and TED speaker. After a 10-year tenure as an executive at Johnson & Johnson, she is the Co-Founder and CEO of Culture+ Group, a family of Cultural Intelligence® companies offering market research, business growth strategies, and inclusive marketing services to corporations and brands that want to successfully tap into cultural shifts and diverse market segments to drive business growth. Listed two-times by Inc. 5000 as one of America’s fastest growing independently owned companies, the group includes: CIEN+, The Choice+ and Human Dot Plus. Lili is also one of less than 2% of Latinas serving on a Fortune 500+ public board, as an independent director for the global youth retailer Zumiez (NASDAQ: ZUMZ) and RCN Television (BVC: RCNTELEVI). She also serves as Chairwoman of the FRIENDS of the National American Latino Museum and is an investor and operating executive board member for AUA Private Equity Partners, an investment firm that has deployed over $475 million in capital to scale family-owned and Hispanic-focused businesses, and advisor to the Fintech company Trez. For her research and voice reframing the power of inclusion and Cultural intelligence® as a business advantage, she has been featured by Forbes, Bloomberg and Fortune Magazines and has received recognitions like 100 Most Influential Latinos in the U.S., PRWeek Top 30 Most Influential in Healthcare, U.S. Hispanic Businessperson of the Year by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, among others. Her impact work includes serving as a trustee and scholarship provider at the Hispanic Serving Institution, Southwestern Adventist University, mentor to the Stanford University Latino Business Action Network, member of the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader alumna, and steering member for the Health Equity Forum hosted at the United Nations.