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Mariana Atencio
Peabody Award-Winning Journalist | Bestselling Author | Entrepreneur | Inspiring Storyteller | Host/Moderator
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Mariana Atencio is on a mission to help people supercharge their careers, their workplace cultures, and their happiness by embracing the power of authenticity. Coming to America from Venezuela as a young girl, Mariana learned first-hand how feeling self-conscious about being different kept her from engaging.
After graduating from Columbia University, Mariana wanted to take that experience into her journalism career and tell stories that build bridges and foster understanding. She became a national news anchor and correspondent, earning a Peabody Award for reporting, taking her from Haiti to Hong Kong to the Syrian border.
The success of her TEDx talk, “What Makes YOU Special?”, viewed over 23 million times, catapulted Mariana into a new storytelling outlet: speaking. Her first book, Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real, is a bestselling call to action to unleash the magic of personal and professional authenticity to find purpose and break barriers. Currently head of her own media production company, Mariana pursues stories that capture her curiosity. She also continues to deliver inspiring keynotes and moderate/host major events.
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Speaking Topics: Mariana Atencio
The Power Of Authenticity: Supercharge Your Career, Your Workplace Culture, And Your Happiness 
It takes seven seconds for people to form an opinion about you. That’s why most of us are taught to fit in a box instead of embracing those parts of ourselves that stand out. As a budding national TV journalist, Mariana was often encouraged to leave parts of herself at the door. But ‘covering’ did not lead to real belonging, especially in the workplace. Embracing her uniqueness did – and Mariana’s passion is empowering others to discover how to do the same. When people feel safe to be themselves, that authenticity builds trust, fulfillment, and credibility at work and in life, they can embrace a mindset of transformation to meet change more resiliently. And leaders find fostering authenticity in their team spurs engagement, collaboration, innovation, and community.
This presentation can be tailored to each specific audience.
Sample takeaways:
• Why most of us find it so hard to be authentic, especially at work
• Discover the traits that make you “Perfectly You” and harness them
• One way to increase your personal fulfillment and a sense of purpose
• How being vulnerable inspires others, builds trust, and creates meaningful relationships
• Mariana’s 3-UP METHOD to inspire a workplace culture of innovation and openness
• Easy steps to cultivate transformation, impact outcomes, and enhance resilience in the face of change.
This presentation can be tailored to each specific audience.
Sample takeaways:
• Why most of us find it so hard to be authentic, especially at work
• Discover the traits that make you “Perfectly You” and harness them
• One way to increase your personal fulfillment and a sense of purpose
• How being vulnerable inspires others, builds trust, and creates meaningful relationships
• Mariana’s 3-UP METHOD to inspire a workplace culture of innovation and openness
• Easy steps to cultivate transformation, impact outcomes, and enhance resilience in the face of change.
Moderating/Interviewing/Hosting
Enter content hereWith experience as a national network news anchor and reporter, Mariana brings warmth and intelligence to each hosting, moderating, and interviewing assignment. Mariana’s curiosity and poise help her get the most out of those on stage with her.
The breadth of Mariana’s experience speaks to her versatility. She’s moderated conversations on embracing a mindset for change at Microsoft, on the rights of women in Iran, on gender inequality at Foreign Policy magazine’s HERPower summit, on media representation at the Paley Center for Media, on financial literacy at Nasdaq, on building a personal and professional brand at Columbia University, a panel on geopolitics and economics at Citi Private Bank’s autumn dialogues with three heads of state from Latin America, a session at the United Nations General Assembly meeting on global healthcare inequity, plus the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, PepsiCo, JP Morgan, Accenture, Spotify, Google, YouTube, Clorox, AT&T, Spectrum, and more.
The breadth of Mariana’s experience speaks to her versatility. She’s moderated conversations on embracing a mindset for change at Microsoft, on the rights of women in Iran, on gender inequality at Foreign Policy magazine’s HERPower summit, on media representation at the Paley Center for Media, on financial literacy at Nasdaq, on building a personal and professional brand at Columbia University, a panel on geopolitics and economics at Citi Private Bank’s autumn dialogues with three heads of state from Latin America, a session at the United Nations General Assembly meeting on global healthcare inequity, plus the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, PepsiCo, JP Morgan, Accenture, Spotify, Google, YouTube, Clorox, AT&T, Spectrum, and more.
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