Latina Identity

UNITED LATINAS features Monica Diaz for advancing Latina leadership through connection, courage, and measurable impact. Monica reflects on community, service-based leadership, and the practices that turn belonging into results—and invites leaders and organizations to keep building together.

I’m honored to be named a 2025 United Latinas Top 50 Over 50 honoree. In this post, I reflect on how leadership evolves with time—turning barriers into bridges, mentoring across generations, and building cultures of belonging—and how this recognition fuels my ongoing work with leaders and organizations.

Honored to be nominated for United Latinas’ Top 50 Over 50. I reflect on leadership rooted in belonging, accountability, and impact—and why lifting as we climb shapes inclusive cultures. Read what’s next and how we keep moving people and business forward.

I’m honored to be featured by VoyageMIA. In the interview, I reflect on a journey that began in Puerto Rico and has taken me across Fortune 100 leadership to entrepreneurship—with one through line: helping leaders build cultures where people belong and businesses thrive. My path in brief I spent 30+ years in global Human Resources—leading

Reflections from the 2025 First Generation Student Career & Leadership ExperienceBy Monica Díaz | April 21, 2025 This past weekend, I had the incredible opportunity to join an inspiring community of students and professionals at the 2025 First Generation Student Career & Leadership Experience. Held at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus, this gathering brought

The following is an excerpt: “From INTENT to IMPACT: The 5 Dualities of Diversity and Inclusion” When my career journey took me on a four-hour flight from Puerto Rico to New Jersey for my first corporate relocation, the journey came with the unanticipated consequence of labeling me as “Hispanic”, as a “Latina”.  I knew the