Dr. Marisol Capellan – I help organizations create inclusive work cultures, and high-performing teams.

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Dr. Marisol Capellan, Ed.D., PCC is an internationally recognized and award-winning educator, TEDx speaker, executive coach, and corporate trainer. She is the Founder of The Capellan Institute, a leadership, coaching, and corporate training company specializing in workplace culture, diversity, equity & inclusion, and soft skills development. Dr. Capellan is a former lecturer at the University of Miami, Miami Herbert Business School lecturer where she taught management and organizational behavior classes and served as the associate director of their Masters in Leadership program. She holds a doctoral degree in Higher Education Leadership and a Masters of Management with Specialization in Leadership from the University of Miami. Her dissertation focus was on the trajectory of women to leadership positions.

As an Afro-Latina, mother, and immigrant, she has faced and witnessed many of the institutional and systemic barriers and biases that Black women face in their career trajectory to leadership roles, which sparked her passion for women’s empowerment and the need to increase the representation of women in positions of power. As a result, she published her book; Leadership is a Responsibility, about her career journey experience as a Black Hispanic woman in Academia, the stories of Black women in the workplace, and the need for responsible leaders to create a more equitable society where minorities can belong and thrive.

In addition, her personal story of resilience has been featured on CNN and Telemundo as an unstoppable woman, where she discussed how her mindset helped her life and career trajectory as an immigrant in the United States.

As a leadership, mindset, and emotional intelligence trainer, Dr. Capellan has delivered corporate workshops for US-based organizations such as American Tower Corporation, NBC Universal, Year Up, and the National Black MBA Association. She has also served as a guest lecturer and trainer for international universities such as Universidad Andres Bello in Chile, Universidad Iberoamericana UNIBE in Dominican Republic, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Colombia and others. Additionally, as a certified executive coach, she has coached executives from Salesforce, Google, WarnerMedia, Blackrock, The Lending Club Corporation, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and more.

Dr. Capellan has also originated, administered, and expanded faculty development and leadership programs to enhance women and minority research and grant opportunities at the University of Miami under the Office of Faculty Affairs for the University of Miami Executive Vice President and Provost. These programs focused on leadership, diversity, inclusion, mentorship, career development, and women and minority faculty empowerment across all University of Miami campuses.

As a professional speaker, Marisol delivers seminars in Spanish and English on topics related to inclusive leadership, intersectionality of identities, DEI, Afro-Latinidad, organizational behavior, mindset, emotional intelligence, confidence-building, and modern well-being in the workplace.

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For speaking engagement, corporate training, and executive coaching inquiries, please email coaching@marisolcapellan.com.