The document describes the HACE Leadership Academy, a 4-month program that aims to transform high-potential Latino professionals into high-performing leaders. The program provides robust leadership training through various methods, including frameworks, tools, peer and executive coaching, and social learning. It helps participants develop skills in strategic thinking, producing results, inspiring others, and applying their new skills to an impact project. The goal is to ready participants for greater responsibilities while also providing value to their organizations in areas like talent development, succession planning, and business performance. The program is facilitated by leadership expert Angel Gomez and takes an action-learning approach to ensure immediate application of skills back on the job.

1. LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Transforming High-Potential Latino Talent into High-Performing Leaders
T oday’s organizations require a cadre of diverse,
skilled and high-performing leaders that can
take on tomorrow’s challenges. The trouble is, most
Our blended leadership
development experience integrates:
organizations lack such a talent pool and cannot • A robust leadership framework based on sound
afford to simply wait and/or pay for recruiting efforts instructional design and practical application;
to address their immediate business needs. Instead, • Essential leadership tools and practices that can
HACE maintains that forward-thinking corporations, and will be put to immediate use;
non-profits and government agencies must also • Application of tools and techniques to an Impact
focus on growing and developing their existing high- Project relevant to participating organizations;
potential talent - particularly their Latino talent -
• A personalized leadership assessment through the
leveraging their time and resources to maximize their
Discovery Insights Profile;
return on investment and produce ready-now talent.
• One-on-one Executive Coaching by HACE Certified
Executive Coaches;
• Peer-to-peer Coaching through cohort learning
interactions; and
• Web-based learning through social media channels,
webinars and online content.
Who Should Attend?
High-potential individual contributors, managers,
directors and vice presidents who must develop
The HACE Leadership Academy is a dynamic and
critical skills in Results Leadership, Thought Leadership
intensive four-month Action Learning Experience that
and Interpersonal Leadership. Participants should
will transform high-potential Latino professionals
have a working knowledge of basic business/
into high-performing leaders, by developing the skills
organizational management concepts and have
necessary to promote immediate and sustainable
responsibility for driving team, business unit or cross-
results for themselves and organizations they serve.
functional results.
Led and facilitated by management and leadership expert,
Angel Gomez, the HACE Leadership Academy will deliver cutting-edge content
through sound instructional design and adult learning methodologies

2. LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Learning Objectives Benefits For The Organization
Upon completion of the Leadership Academy, Developing high-potential leaders creates bench
participants will be able to: strength for any organization that is undergoing
• Think and Act Strategically to Maximize Personal growth and change in an increasingly complex
and Organizational Effectiveness; business environment. The HACE Leadership
Academy experience will produce ready-now talent
• Produce Higher Quality Results Through Strategic
Planning and Managing Execution; that will allow your organization to:
• Engage and Inspire Others to by Leveraging • Deliver higher quality results faster;
Interpersonal Behaviors that Promote Collaboration
• Establish procedures that drive efficiencies;
and a Positive Work Environment; and
• Apply the Skills and Tools they Learn Immediately • Engage employees and satisfy customers/
to an Impact Project that Improves their Team and/ constituents; and
or Operating Business Unit.
• Enhance talent management and succession
planning efforts.
Action Learning
About The Facilitator
Participants are required to practice on their toughest
real-life work challenges during the HACE Leadership
Academy experience. That way, the skills developed A ngel Gomez believes
that individual and
collective performance
are immediately transferable back on the job.
Through assessments, social media, group practice is driven by work that is
sessions, exploratory discussions, and feedback from meaningful and worthwhile
HACE Coaches, participants combine to provide a – that one’s work must have
varied and engaging learning experience. purpose. This belief and his
unique, collaborative approach, shaped by 20 years
of diverse professional experiences, has made him
a trusted partner to some of the world’s leading
companies who count on him to create better people,
better leaders and better organizations. Through
his speeches, workshops, consulting, coaching
sessions and social media channels, Angel has helped
thousands of people accelerate their performance.
HACE is a national non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of Latino
professionals. Through education, access, and professional development, we help Latinos
succeed in every phase of their careers.
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