Laura Santana ’09 (PhD, GSLC) provides leadership development to those actively working to bring about positive change in the quality of life for Latin America. She coaches senior officials at the Inter-American Development Bank’s think tank (IDB Lab), the top 40 women leaders in the newly elected Guatemalan government, and leadership at the 2nd largest homebuilder in Peru—a B-Corp who is up-ending corrupt business models by providing safe, legal, low-cost housing in alignment with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She coaches the 2024 UN + International Leadership Association SDG Award Recipient who furthers a national effort to provide global education opportunities for youth across Panama. In the U.S., Santana is on faculty at the New Memphis Leadership Intensive multi-sector program to revitalize community leaders, in Asia she continues her collaboration with the Center for Creative Leadership’s efforts in China and Taiwan.
Learn more about Santana and read her dissertation Making the Value of Development Visible: A Sequential Mixed Methodology Study of the Integral Impact of Post-Classroom Leader and Leadership Development.
