066: From aviator to best-selling author with Graciela Tiscareño-Sato

Graciela Tiscareño-Sato is a bilingual sought-after speakerand Chief Creative Officer of Gracefully Global Group LLC, the premiere,award-winning publishing and marketing firm for Latino innovation,entrepreneurship and leadership stories. She's the bestselling author of 5-timeaward-winning book Latinnovating: Green American Jobs and the Latinos CreatingThem. The 1st volume (of a planned series) showcasing Latino-led innovation inthe green economy, at the 2012 International Latino Book Awards, Latinnovating picked up Best BusinessBook honors, among others. Latinnovatingrepresents the convergence of Ms. Tiscareño-Sato’s corporate sustainabilityexperience, entrepreneurial drive and her desire to spotlightstereotype-busting stories of leadership from the Latino community.

Graciela speaks at universities, business schools, industryconferences, corporate ERG meetings and webinars, educational conferences andK-12 literacy & career events. In 2012, she shared the stage with Secretaryof Education Arne Duncan, as keynote speaker at the Green Schools NationalConference. She serves school districts as a bilingual STEM Consultant.

Graciela is a graduate of the School of Environmental Designat Berkeley, a former military officer and aviator and an active mentor toLatino youth. She earned her graduate degree in international management andmarketing while on active duty with the U.S. Air Force flying onboard KC-135refueling jets.

Graciela’s thought leadership pieces have published in theU.S. and Europe including Environmental Leader, Hispanic MBAand many more.She's been quoted in the New York Timesand contributes to the Huffington Post. In March 2014, The White House named her a Champion of Change with 9 other Women Military Veteran Leaders. LATINAStyleMagazine honored her as the “Entrepreneur of the Year” in Washington D.C.

Graciela's 1st children's picture book (of a plannedseries), Good Night Captain Mama, is the 1st bilingual book teaching youngchildren why mommies wear military uniforms; it was honored as “BestEducational Children’s Book – Bilingual” category at the 2014 InternationalLatino Books Awards at the ALA Convention. The Military Writers Society ofAmerica and Writer's Digest magazinehave also bestowed literary awards on this innovative children's book thatreminds Americans that women and Latinas are veterans too!

 

What you'll learn

• Graciela's dream and her path to pursue it
• How Graciela became an aviator in the air force
• How talking about what she needed to do next has helped her find her next opportunity throughout her career
• How she successfully transitioned from military aviator to marketer to entrepreneur, speaker and author
• How Graciela became a best-selling author
• Why you should write a book
• Why you need to seek mentorship wherever you can get it and not be afraid to be the first in your family  to achieve new milestones

Resources & Links

• http://captainmama.com/
• http://latinnovating.com/
• http://www.gracefullyglobal.com/commerce
• http://www.studentmentor.org/

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