September Educational Program

1250 Welton Street
Denver, CO 80204
303-292-5000

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2:30pm - 3:00pm – Registration and Networking
3:00pm – 4:30pm – Announcements and Program
4:30pm – 5:30pm – Reception

Program - The Magic of Belonging

Denise Soler Cox understands the feeling of being caught between two worlds. The Puerto Rican culture of her parents and the mainstream American culture in which she was raised.  She has an important story to tell, and it’s relevant to us all.  As it turns out, we all need a little help learning how to think about culture, identity and what it means to belong.

Kris Campbell, V.P. Speakers and Entertainment at Heroic Productions says; “Denise’s message is pure and personal, but it’s also a powerful message for leadership.  There has never been a time where it’s more important to bust through barriers, communicate more, and embrace our differences (easier said than done)!  Denise’s message is the stuff of transformation, and it’s one I had never heard before. It snuck up on me.  It stayed with me. And I believe it’s helped me be a better person.”

Her appearance will include segments of her award-winning film “Being Eñye”— Co-Produced and Co-Directed the film with Oscar-Nominated filmmaker, Henry Ansbacher.

This film is the first documentary released by Project Eñye, a multimedia production company aimed at transforming how the public thinks and speaks about culture and identity.  “Eñye” refers to a group of people who struggle with feeling caught between the norms, beliefs and value systems of American culture and the culture in which many US Latinos were raised.

Attendees of all colors, ethnicities, nationalities and identities come up to Denise after a presentation and say, ‘This is my story!” she says. “It’s been amazing to watch this message become a catalyst to help people open up to share their personal experience and to realize, sometimes for the first time, that they are not alone.

Learner Objectives:

1. Three Understandings of Belonging
2. Cultural Perspectives that inform Belonging
3. Creating a Workplace of Belonging

Speaker

Denise Soler Cox
Project Eñye

After going from a stay-at-home-mom to award-winning activist filmmaker, Top 100podcaster and to sought-after Fortune 500 speaker, Denise Soler Cox uses her experience to transform lives through storytelling.

In 2014 she Co-Founded Project Eñye a multimedia production company whose purpose is to transform how we think about culture, identity and what it means to belong.

In September 2020 Denise was recognized as a “Featured Host” by Apple Podcast North America for her podcast “The Self-ish Latina" with listeners in 32 countries. Denise has been invited to speak on over 150 stages including two TEDx talks and has worked with some of the world's most recognized brands like Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, JP Morgan Chase, Salesforce, Procter & Gamble, Dow Jones, Eli Lilly, Starbucks and Vayner Media to name a few.

Renowned Harvard Professor Marshall Ganz uses Denise’s film “being eñye” as part of his Public Narrative course as an example of “The story of us.”
Her work has been published as a contributor in Huffington Post. She has been featured in Forbes as a “Trailblazing Latina” and also on CNN, CNN Money, Chicago Tribune, Fox News Latino, HOLA, ABC, CBS and NBC. Denise has a combined audience of 97k followers across all platforms.

She is currently in production with her second feature-length documentary about secret-keeping in the Latinx community (2022) and also working on a forthcoming book about Belonging (Winter 2021). 

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