Veronica Llorca-Smith 🍋

Want to find a speaker for your next leadership event?

I design customized keynotes and workshops to motivate and build high-performing teams and help develop new leadership skills.

Blending my 20-year corporate experience (Apple, Estée Lauder), my personal experience living in 9 countries and my journey as an amateur triathlete, I create engaging sessions that bring both inspiration and actionable frameworks. 

Topics:

Inclusive leadership
Unconscious Bias
Cultural Agility
Inclusive Language
Allyship

Growth Mindset: 
An Athlete's Mindset
Becoming Your Best Ambassador

Previous clients: UBS, AIA, ManpowerGroup, BioRad, Native Union, UK Cabinet, Michael Page, DASH...

Motivational Speaker & Author: DEI & growth mindset

🎙Public Speaking: I create customized presentations and workshops for organizations and events. My content leverages my 15-year corporate experience (Apple, Estée Lauder) as well as my personal experience as a triathlete and an author. 

🎓 Topics:

- Cultural agility as a competitive advantage in the workplace

- Inclusive leadership: mindset, behavior and processes

- Inclusive language as a catalyst for inclusion 

- An athlete's mindset: mental frameworks to get results 
  
- Thriving as a woman in the workplace

- Maximizing your influence with a personal brand

Languages available: English, Spanish, French, Italian & Portuguese

Veronica Llorca-Smith 💎

Yesterday I opened a coaching session with the worst line ever:

“I have imposter syndrome”

Note: I am the coach here (luckily I'm not a surgeon)

I know, not the most professional or polished line I could come up with, but definitely the most real.

My client, Charlie is a C-level exec and Founder, columnist at MarketWatch, 30K+ followers here, and has served US Presidents. 6 of them. It’s all public info.

So yes, feeling like an imposter was in order. 

He could have dismissed me after my "Grand Opening", but he didn't. He listened carefully, asked questions, took notes, and we had the most amazing hour. 

We brainstormed, trouble-shooted, ideated and combined our perspectives and expertise to take his strategy to the next level. I honestly gave 200%.

This morning, I woke up to his email and his feedback is one of the most powerful testimonials I've ever received.

Out of everything we discussed, the thing that actually struck him most was my opening because it was raw, honest and human. 

Sometimes we forget that real beats perfect. In a world that expects us to be perfectly groomed and polished, being honest goes a long way.

Feeling like an imposter syndrome doesn't make you weak: it means you are human and real and above all, it means that you care.

Thank you for trusting me and for inviting me to your table, Charles P. Garcia

Full article here: https://lnkd.in/gV_QgdxY

Veronica Llorca-Smith🎤

International Speaker & Corporate Trainer in 6 languages: Leadership, Communication & Cultural Agility | Penguin Author | Ironman Triathlete | CEM (Chief Executive Mom)

Testimonial written by my client with a black banner of Capital Mischief 

South Bend Community School Corporation

▻ Tier 1 and Tier 2 committee at Swanson Primary Center. I helped develop their Tier 2 framework and co-presented the plan to the staff 2012 
▻ assisting with Student Council-2011-2013
▻ Student Council Leader-2014-2015
▻ Hay Primary Leadership Team-2014-present
▻ Textbook Adoption Committees- Science (2017) and Language Arts (2019)
▻ Helped develop corporation-wide science kits for the new science adoption with 4 other staff members (2017)
▻ NEA Faculty Representative-2019- present
▻ Language Arts SBCSC Textbook Committee 2019-2020
▻ Comprehensive Needs Assessment/School Improvement Plan 2020-2021 school year
Mentor Teacher 2021-present

Leadership Roles

▻ Assessed the accomplishments of students on a daily basis and reports progress to the students and their parents.
▻ Implemented instructional methods and materials that are appropriate and aligned with state standards. Maintained accurate records.
▻ Training and collaborating with the staff. Also created assessments & data collection methods for the school records.
▻ Integrating technology in the classroom, keeping current on educational best practices based on scientific research, and creating an
engaging curriculum based on state standards.
▻ Working collaboratively with the principal and team members to work on a common goal for the entire school building.
▻ Mentor for the Grow SB! Mentoring Program. Providing support to new teachers in SBCSC through developing trusting relationships, and collaborative communities, and offering engaging professional growth and reflection opportunities designed to positively impact student learning.

kindergarten Teacher 

My current responsibilities include being a team leader of my kindergarten team, PBIS team, and a NEA Union Representative. I am also a mentor teacher for the IUSB masters program. It is a grant that will last 5 years. Currently, we are the only place in the United States that has a program to support Graduate students entering into the teaching profession.

Kindergarten teacher

▻ Privilege of working in a variety of educational settings to help train and assist the preschool teachers with the students, we were serving, who had special needs.
▻ Worked collaboratively with Occupational Therapists, Physical Assistants, and Speech and Language Therapists with overlapping services. Also conducted Annual Case Conference meetings
▻ Worked closely with the kindergarten and special education support staff to help successfully transition the students into kindergarten.
▻ Collected data on each goal and created addendums, as needed, to reflect their progress and current level of functioning. Had overlapping educational goals therefore I held teams for individual students on my caseload.

Community Preschool teacher in the Special Needs Abilities Preschool Program 

Fort Wayne South Bend Diocese

Lead Preschool and Kindergarten Teacher

I created and implemented a curriculum for the preschool and kindergarten classroom. I worked closely with the other other kindergarten and first grade teachers to ensure continuity between the programs.

Preschool Teacher  (3 and 4 year old) and a Kindergarten teacher  

I was in charge of recruiting, interviewing, and hiring employees for the program. I trained three other staff members and we co-developed the program together.  We had approximately 70 children in the after school program.  The after school consisted of homework help, snack time (we sometimes made it together), games, and special guests, art activities, and computer time. We also had special guests from the  Notre Dame's International programs come into our school. They brought in ethnic food, performed dances, and taught us about their traditions using artifacts.

Director of the After-School Program

𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗗 EDUCATION 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 & 𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗢𝗣𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 ➥ on a mission to change our educational system to retain quality teachers| 29+ years of experience

With over 30 years of experience in teaching, mentoring, and leading, I am passionate about revolutionizing education and creating a paradigm shift in our system. I am a South Bend Community School Corporation (SBCSC) teacher. I implement instructional methods and materials aligned with state standards, integrate technology in the classroom, and assess student progress and performance.

I also serve as a team leader, a PBIS team member, and a mentor teacher for the IUSB master's program. I am part of the Grow SB! initiative, a unique and innovative partnership between SBCSC and IUSB that supports graduate students entering the teaching profession. I have been recognized as the Teacher of the Year for Hay Primary Center and a Top 10 Honors Group for the Corporation Teacher of the Year. My mission is to foster social and emotional well-being, inclusivity, and curiosity among my students and colleagues and to empower them to be the solutions we need in our educational system.

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