Mariana Atencio

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Award-winning journalist specializes in telling transformational stories, where she creates diverse content, which empowers global audiences.

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Mariana's authentic, relatable, engaging style enabled her to immediately connect with our audience. Through a series of stories, she shared uplifting, relevant, and empowering learnings that all of us can embrace as leaders.

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Why select keynote speaker Mariana Atencio

Mariana’s TEDx talk with over 23 million views and her bestselling book, “Perfectly You,” are testaments to her ability to engage and motivate, ensuring your event’s success.
As a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a spokesperson for the American Latino Museum, Mariana is a prominent advocate for positive change, adding depth to her impactful keynotes.
Mariana’s talks serve as a call to action, offering tools and strategies to embrace personal and professional authenticity, find purpose, and break down barriers to success.

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Unlock Success with Mariana Atencio! Harness the transformative power of authenticity. A Peabody Award winner, dynamic speaker, and bestselling author, Mariana inspires change and empowers your audience. Elevate your event with her compelling story and valuable insights. Book Mariana Atencio today to supercharge your organization's careers, workplace culture, and happiness.

Why select keynote speaker Mariana Atencio

Mariana’s TEDx talk with over 23 million views and her bestselling book, “Perfectly You,” are testaments to her ability to engage and motivate, ensuring your event’s success.
As a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a spokesperson for the American Latino Museum, Mariana is a prominent advocate for positive change, adding depth to her impactful keynotes.
Mariana’s talks serve as a call to action, offering tools and strategies to embrace personal and professional authenticity, find purpose, and break down barriers to success.

Mariana Atencio, a renowned motivational speaker, offers the transformative insights your organization needs. Her journey, starting as a young girl coming to America from Venezuela, resonates with anyone who’s ever felt different, self-conscious, or hesitant in a new environment. She understands the power of embracing authenticity because she’s lived it.

Mariana’s storytelling prowess, honed during her tenure as a national news anchor and correspondent, takes your audience on a remarkable journey, from Haiti to Hong Kong to the Syrian border, exploring the universal threads that connect us all. She has interviewed dozens of notable figures, including Pope Francis, President Joe Biden, King Felipe VI of Spain, Nancy Pelosi, chef and humanitarian José Andrés, author Yuval Noah Harari, and director Francis Ford Coppola

Mariana’s renowned TEDx talk, “What Makes YOU Special?” with over 23 million views, catapulted her into the world of speaking. Her first book, “Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real,” serves as a call to action to unleash the magic of personal and professional authenticity, helping individuals find their purpose and break through the barriers that hold them back.

Mariana’s impact isn’t limited to the stage. As the head of her own media production company, she continues to pursue stories that ignite curiosity. She’s a 2021 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and she’s dedicated to making a difference, from shedding light on missing women and girls in the region with her hit true crime podcast series to advocating for gender equality.

In booking Mariana Atencio, you’re ensuring your organization benefits from a speaker whose influence extends far beyond the stage. Your team will leave with a renewed sense of purpose, a commitment to authenticity, and the tools to foster positive change in the workplace. Mariana isn’t just a keynote speaker; she’s a catalyst for transformation, making your event an unforgettable success.

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Keynote by speaker Mariana Atencio

The Power of Authenticity: Supercharge Your Charge Career, Your Workplace Culture & Your Happiness

It takes seven seconds for people to form an opinion about you. That’s why most of us are taught to fit in a box instead of embracing those parts of ourselves that stand out. As a budding national TV journalist, Mariana was often encouraged to leave parts of herself at the door. But ‘covering’ did not lead to real belonging, especially in the workplace. Embracing her uniqueness did – and Mariana’s passion is empowering others to discover how to do the same. When people feel safe to be themselves, that authenticity builds trust, fulfillment, and credibility at work and in life. They’re able to embrace a mindset of transformation to meet change more resiliently. And leaders find fostering authenticity on their team spurs engagement, collaboration, innovation, and community.

This presentation can be tailored to each specific audience.

Sample takeaways:

Why most of us find it so hard to be authentic, especially at work.
Discover the traits that make you “Perfectly You” and harness them.
One way to increase your personal fulfillment and a sense of purpose.
How being vulnerable inspires others, builds trust, and creates meaningful relationships.
Mariana’s 3-UP METHOD to inspire a workplace culture of innovation and openness.
Easy steps to cultivate transformation, impact outcomes, and enhance resilience in the face of change.

Keynote by speaker Mariana Atencio

Moderation/Interviewing/Hosting

With experience as a national network news anchor and reporter, Mariana brings warmth and intelligence to each hosting, moderating, and interviewing assignment. Mariana’s curiosity and poise help her get the most out of those on stage with her.

The breadth of Mariana’s experience speaks to her versatility. She’s moderated conversations on embracing a mindset for change at Microsoft, on the rights of women in Iran, on gender inequality at Foreign Policy magazine’s HERPower summit, on media representation at the Paley Center for Media, on financial literacy at Nasdaq, on building a personal and professional brand at Columbia University, a panel on geopolitics and economics at Citi Private Bank’s autumn dialogues with three heads of state from Latin America, a session at the United Nations General Assembly meeting on global healthcare inequity, plus the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, PepsiCo, JP Morgan, Accenture, Spotify, Google, YouTube, Clorox, AT&T, Spectrum, and more.