Rebecca’s passion is to help people more easily and authentically understand, energize, influence, and collaborate with people of different cultural and diversity profiles.
As Director of Content & Research, Rebecca ensures that LCW’s workshops, digital tools, frameworks and toolkits are forward-looking, practical, relevant, current, and always at the vanguard of our clients’ needs. In keeping with LCW’s mission, , Rebecca also examines LCW content through the lens of cultural competence – an approach that centers learned and shared behaviors and values which emerge from common experiences and influences of diverse communities globally. Rebecca also manages LCW’s full-time Facilitator Team, provides support to the LCW Consultant Team, and is a member of LCW’s Executive Leadership Team, contributing to the strategic direction of the organization.
Before this role, for fifteen years Rebecca advised, collaborated with, and designed and facilitated workshops for LCW clients across industries, most recently as a Principal Consultant. In that role, she supported global organizations such as Boston Consulting Group, Johnson & Johnson, Emerson, Spencer Stuart, and Unilever in their goals of mitigating unconscious bias and embedding cultural competence and inclusion into their talent processes and teams. She has played a leading role in designing and implementing LCW programs such as “Leading with Conscious Inclusion,”, “Managing Unconscious Bias in the Workplace”, “Building a Culture of Inclusion”, and “Understanding the Latinx/Hispanic Experience in the US”.
Rebecca’s expertise in cultural competence benefitted from over a decade in Global Treasury Management at ABN AMRO Bank in Chicago and continued when she moved to China for a full-time teaching position at Shanghai Dianji University, where she designed and delivered English classes for first- and second-year students for several years.
A Puerto Rico native, Rebecca is a native English- and Spanish-speaker. She is a certified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®), a member of the Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research (SIETAR-USA), and has co-authored the Cultural Detective®: LGBT package. She holds an MBA in International Business from DePaul University in Chicago and resides in Chapel Hill, NC with her children.
