Corporate Cafecito

Mario has over 30 years of professional leadership experience both as an entrepreneur and in the corporate world. 

His expertise ranges from leading various successful sales team, strategy development & implementation, project management, talent development & entrepreneurship.

Mario’s mission has to always been to be a lifelong learner. His guiding principles are Community, Culture, Career and Commerce. Mario is a Landmark Forum Graduate where he completed multiples courses on communication and the Team Management Leadership Program. His is also a licensed Dharius Daniels Transformational Coach. 

He personally knows what it takes to continuously transform oneself to create new opportunities & possibilities.   His journey and experiences provide the opportunity to help others live their best life by using the “Be, Do, Have Philosophy”. 

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If you’d like to join Nallely y Carlos for a conversation, collaborate, or suggest a topic that matters to our community, we would love to hear from you. This podcast centers real conversations that move culture and careers forward. Visit www.corpcafecito.com/contact-us or email [email protected].

Elevar Development, founded by Nallely Suárez Gass, helps professionals and organizations grow with clarity and purpose. With over two decades of corporate experience, Nallely is known for helping people lead authentically, uncover strengths, and make confident, aligned decisions. Through personalized coaching and impactful workshops, Elevar creates practical, lasting change. Visit www.elevardevelopment.com or email [email protected] today.

Every business decision carries social, political, and economic considerations. Avizo Consulting helps organizations navigate complexity with intention, cultural awareness, and strategic insight. Carlos Butler Vale partners with leaders who want their values and actions aligned. Learn more at www.avizoconsulting.com or email [email protected]. 

Two leaders. One shared commitment to growth, cultura, and impact. 

Looking for the next opportunity? Don't talk yourself out of applying.

Most times we read the description and talk ourselves out of it, whether we don't feel qualified or think we won't get it. Instead of facing rejection, we leave ourselves out of the talent pool when you might be exactly who they're looking for to fill that role.

Sometimes it's convincing ourselves that this journey is worth the energy and instead we settle on staying where we are.

If you decide to take on the journey of finding a new job, listen to this episode for some advice from LinkedIn to questions for the interview.

Today my cafecito is black, serious coffee for a big decision.

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If you’d like to join Nallely y Carlos for a conversation, collaborate, or suggest a topic that matters to our community, we would love to hear from you. This podcast centers real conversations that move culture and careers forward. Visit www.corpcafecito.com/contact-us or email [email protected].

Elevar Development, founded by Nallely Suárez Gass, helps professionals and organizations grow with clarity and purpose. With over two decades of corporate experience, Nallely is known for helping people lead authentically, uncover strengths, and make confident, aligned decisions. Through personalized coaching and impactful workshops, Elevar creates practical, lasting change. Visit www.elevardevelopment.com or email [email protected] today.

Every business decision carries social, political, and economic considerations. Avizo Consulting helps organizations navigate complexity with intention, cultural awareness, and strategic insight. Carlos Butler Vale partners with leaders who want their values and actions aligned. Learn more at www.avizoconsulting.com or email [email protected]. 

Two leaders. One shared commitment to growth, cultura, and impact. 

Elias Ortega is the President at Meadville Lombard Theological School, but that wasn't what he had planned to be when he grew up. He adapted and found his way through construction jobs, cleaning the chemistry lab, and realizing what his passions were (and weren't) as a young man, figuring out life in Puerto Rico.

Now, he is an educator, a leader, and a friend who advocates for others, believes immensely in the good in people, and helps others do the same.

We were very lucky to have him join us for a couple of episodes and this was his first!

Stay warm and enjoy your cafecito!

Support the show

If you’d like to join Nallely y Carlos for a conversation, collaborate, or suggest a topic that matters to our community, we would love to hear from you. This podcast centers real conversations that move culture and careers forward. Visit www.corpcafecito.com/contact-us or email [email protected].

Elevar Development, founded by Nallely Suárez Gass, helps professionals and organizations grow with clarity and purpose. With over two decades of corporate experience, Nallely is known for helping people lead authentically, uncover strengths, and make confident, aligned decisions. Through personalized coaching and impactful workshops, Elevar creates practical, lasting change. Visit www.elevardevelopment.com or email [email protected] today.

Every business decision carries social, political, and economic considerations. Avizo Consulting helps organizations navigate complexity with intention, cultural awareness, and strategic insight. Carlos Butler Vale partners with leaders who want their values and actions aligned. Learn more at www.avizoconsulting.com or email [email protected]. 

Two leaders. One shared commitment to growth, cultura, and impact. 

Feedback is a gift...or is it? Sometimes it causes a lot of anxiety, typically cause we feel judged as usually the feedback is coming from a person in a position of authority. Year end reviews or your family's opinion on your parenting, feedback can be helpful, hurtful, and also send us into a panic. As you receive feedback, don't feel like you have to absorb it all and do every thing. 

If you're the one giving feedback, make sure:

• The receiver is able to hear the message
• The message is clear and there is positive intent
• Provide resources for how to improve

When done properly, feedback can make us better. If it's in a work setting, try to not take it personal. Growth comes from being open to feedback and change, embrace it.

Enjoy your cafecito, and if you feel up to it...share some feedback with us, we're always looking to grow.

Support the show

If you’d like to join Nallely y Carlos for a conversation, collaborate, or suggest a topic that matters to our community, we would love to hear from you. This podcast centers real conversations that move culture and careers forward. Visit www.corpcafecito.com/contact-us or email [email protected].

Elevar Development, founded by Nallely Suárez Gass, helps professionals and organizations grow with clarity and purpose. With over two decades of corporate experience, Nallely is known for helping people lead authentically, uncover strengths, and make confident, aligned decisions. Through personalized coaching and impactful workshops, Elevar creates practical, lasting change. Visit www.elevardevelopment.com or email [email protected] today.

Every business decision carries social, political, and economic considerations. Avizo Consulting helps organizations navigate complexity with intention, cultural awareness, and strategic insight. Carlos Butler Vale partners with leaders who want their values and actions aligned. Learn more at www.avizoconsulting.com or email [email protected]. 

Two leaders. One shared commitment to growth, cultura, and impact. 

Empower is a verb...when you make someone stronger and more confident. Empowered as a noun mean to have the authority to make the decisions, the ability to take action. What a beautiful word, you're either helping someone or you are in control to drive action. 

Set clear expectations at work and define your role within the organization and ask for feedback. Look for an executive sponsor, someone who is in your corner and you can bounce ideas off of each other, the type of person who will advocate and promote you even when you're not there. And keep adding to your skill set whether it's through formal education, classes/certifications, or by listening to this podcast that wants to help build you up!

Put some caffeine in your mug, let's start the week like our coffee...STRONG!

Support the show

If you’d like to join Nallely y Carlos for a conversation, collaborate, or suggest a topic that matters to our community, we would love to hear from you. This podcast centers real conversations that move culture and careers forward. Visit www.corpcafecito.com/contact-us or email [email protected].

Elevar Development, founded by Nallely Suárez Gass, helps professionals and organizations grow with clarity and purpose. With over two decades of corporate experience, Nallely is known for helping people lead authentically, uncover strengths, and make confident, aligned decisions. Through personalized coaching and impactful workshops, Elevar creates practical, lasting change. Visit www.elevardevelopment.com or email [email protected] today.

Every business decision carries social, political, and economic considerations. Avizo Consulting helps organizations navigate complexity with intention, cultural awareness, and strategic insight. Carlos Butler Vale partners with leaders who want their values and actions aligned. Learn more at www.avizoconsulting.com or email [email protected]. 

Two leaders. One shared commitment to growth, cultura, and impact. 

Teamwork...the combined action of a group of people. What does that really mean? We've all been on teams con el flojo and the team leader and have been frustrated with lack of progress, and yet when people interview most say they are a team player and appreciate being in a team setting.

 What's important for a team to be strong and successful...trust and being reliable. Acknowledging the strengths of each member and seeing development opportunities.  A great team will inspire you to be better, get farther, and value others.

As Phil Jackson said “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team"

Support the show

If you’d like to join Nallely y Carlos for a conversation, collaborate, or suggest a topic that matters to our community, we would love to hear from you. This podcast centers real conversations that move culture and careers forward. Visit www.corpcafecito.com/contact-us or email [email protected].

Elevar Development, founded by Nallely Suárez Gass, helps professionals and organizations grow with clarity and purpose. With over two decades of corporate experience, Nallely is known for helping people lead authentically, uncover strengths, and make confident, aligned decisions. Through personalized coaching and impactful workshops, Elevar creates practical, lasting change. Visit www.elevardevelopment.com or email [email protected] today.

Every business decision carries social, political, and economic considerations. Avizo Consulting helps organizations navigate complexity with intention, cultural awareness, and strategic insight. Carlos Butler Vale partners with leaders who want their values and actions aligned. Learn more at www.avizoconsulting.com or email [email protected]. 

Two leaders. One shared commitment to growth, cultura, and impact. 

Employee engagement refers to the emotional commitment an employee has to their organization and its employees, vision and goals. 

During COVID, there was the highest decrease in employee engagement and productivity, falling to around 10% for office employees. Still the engaged employee is not only a happy one, they're good for the entire company.

• Engaged employees tend to be less stressed and have 53% less sick days than non-engaged employees
• 77% of employees believe a strong culture allows them to do their best work
• Highly engaged companies have 59% less turnover

Ponganse las pilas and get your head back in the game. This is when you need that extra espresso shot!

Support the show

If you’d like to join Nallely y Carlos for a conversation, collaborate, or suggest a topic that matters to our community, we would love to hear from you. This podcast centers real conversations that move culture and careers forward. Visit www.corpcafecito.com/contact-us or email [email protected].

Elevar Development, founded by Nallely Suárez Gass, helps professionals and organizations grow with clarity and purpose. With over two decades of corporate experience, Nallely is known for helping people lead authentically, uncover strengths, and make confident, aligned decisions. Through personalized coaching and impactful workshops, Elevar creates practical, lasting change. Visit www.elevardevelopment.com or email [email protected] today.

Every business decision carries social, political, and economic considerations. Avizo Consulting helps organizations navigate complexity with intention, cultural awareness, and strategic insight. Carlos Butler Vale partners with leaders who want their values and actions aligned. Learn more at www.avizoconsulting.com or email [email protected]. 

Two leaders. One shared commitment to growth, cultura, and impact. 

Have you ever wondered how to turn your passion into a full-time career? Listen to how Spanish Guitarist, David Chiriboga turned his passion for music into a full-time career. For over two decades he has shared his love of music with the world, while at the same time creating a thriving business. 

David wasn't born into a musical family, he jokes he got into this by accident. He shares some of the highlights of his entrepreneurial journey, the misconceptions of being an artist and his personal strategies to having a successful career.

You can find him playing all over Chicago from Navy Pier to Alinea, chances are you've probably already heard him, not you can hear his story.

Support the show

If you’d like to join Nallely y Carlos for a conversation, collaborate, or suggest a topic that matters to our community, we would love to hear from you. This podcast centers real conversations that move culture and careers forward. Visit www.corpcafecito.com/contact-us or email [email protected].

Elevar Development, founded by Nallely Suárez Gass, helps professionals and organizations grow with clarity and purpose. With over two decades of corporate experience, Nallely is known for helping people lead authentically, uncover strengths, and make confident, aligned decisions. Through personalized coaching and impactful workshops, Elevar creates practical, lasting change. Visit www.elevardevelopment.com or email [email protected] today.

Every business decision carries social, political, and economic considerations. Avizo Consulting helps organizations navigate complexity with intention, cultural awareness, and strategic insight. Carlos Butler Vale partners with leaders who want their values and actions aligned. Learn more at www.avizoconsulting.com or email [email protected]. 

Two leaders. One shared commitment to growth, cultura, and impact. 

Building good habits and processes takes discipline. It's always easier to not do the work and throw in the towel instead, but sometimes that comes from not feeling prepared or setting goals that are unachievable.

This episode we're going to talk about "doing the work" and what that means. Including setting actionable and attainable goals, and also being able to say "ni modo" sometimes. The reason most new year's resolutions fail is because we go full speed and that's not how to build a habit, not a sustainable one at least. After one week 25% of people will have broken their resolution and by January 19th the majority will be abandoned.

Ponte las pilas and put in the time. Wishing you a wonderful 2023, thank you for being part of our community.

Enjoy your cafecito, bien calientito with or without a churro.

Support the show

If you’d like to join Nallely y Carlos for a conversation, collaborate, or suggest a topic that matters to our community, we would love to hear from you. This podcast centers real conversations that move culture and careers forward. Visit www.corpcafecito.com/contact-us or email [email protected].

Elevar Development, founded by Nallely Suárez Gass, helps professionals and organizations grow with clarity and purpose. With over two decades of corporate experience, Nallely is known for helping people lead authentically, uncover strengths, and make confident, aligned decisions. Through personalized coaching and impactful workshops, Elevar creates practical, lasting change. Visit www.elevardevelopment.com or email [email protected] today.

Every business decision carries social, political, and economic considerations. Avizo Consulting helps organizations navigate complexity with intention, cultural awareness, and strategic insight. Carlos Butler Vale partners with leaders who want their values and actions aligned. Learn more at www.avizoconsulting.com or email [email protected]. 

Two leaders. One shared commitment to growth, cultura, and impact. 

FAILURE - just typing that word feels scary. What does failure mean? It means we tried and we didn't make it...or, is failure the motivator we need to continue? If everything was perfect from the start, how would we grow?

Think about the positives of failure, it takes gut, grit, courage, and a lot of resolve. There was a quote that said "courage isn't having the strength to go on, it's going on when you have no strength" and that what failure feels like until we continue to move forward, to redefine the flaws, to fix it, and to forgive ourselves for mistakes.

Pa'delante...cause failure is in our rearview mirror. 

Grab your Cafecito, put it in a travel mug, and let's go!

Support the show

If you’d like to join Nallely y Carlos for a conversation, collaborate, or suggest a topic that matters to our community, we would love to hear from you. This podcast centers real conversations that move culture and careers forward. Visit www.corpcafecito.com/contact-us or email [email protected].

Elevar Development, founded by Nallely Suárez Gass, helps professionals and organizations grow with clarity and purpose. With over two decades of corporate experience, Nallely is known for helping people lead authentically, uncover strengths, and make confident, aligned decisions. Through personalized coaching and impactful workshops, Elevar creates practical, lasting change. Visit www.elevardevelopment.com or email [email protected] today.

Every business decision carries social, political, and economic considerations. Avizo Consulting helps organizations navigate complexity with intention, cultural awareness, and strategic insight. Carlos Butler Vale partners with leaders who want their values and actions aligned. Learn more at www.avizoconsulting.com or email [email protected]. 

Two leaders. One shared commitment to growth, cultura, and impact.