How is God calling you to use your gifts today? How can you not only discern your current mission, but determine and communicate clear and actionable steps to live it out? In this GIVEN Academy session, Margarita Pineda-Ucero will help participants identify where they are now and where they want to go, with special emphasis on how to create an “Action Plan,” a specific new initiative with concrete steps. This session will also include an introduction from Rachel Ullmann on changes to the 2022 Forum Application and expectations for Action Plan Proposals.

Margarita is a senior executive with experience in global corporate financial services and private company board environments.

Her deep knowledge of strategy, finance, enterprise risk management, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, global commercial lending practices and transaction structuring, allows her to add value across industries.

She is advisor and consultant in business strategy, transformations, reorganization and operational restructurings.

Former Chief Risk Officer of GE Capital Latin America, currently serves as Independent Director at the IFC’s (a World Bank Group Co.) strategic partner’s Board in Colombia (Covinoc, S.A.) and at Fairfield University’s Dolan School of Business Advisory Council. Also advises non-profits dedicated to helping women in life-crisis situations and in professional development.

Active in advancing women in the workplace, as an advocate for respect and inclusion, she founded Women Dignity Alliance; an approach to build operational excellence, while driving inclusiveness across all levels of the organization. Margarita has an international track record in leading business and corporate culture transformation, while helping women develop and grow in their corporate or entrepreneurial careers.

Education: Yale School of Management Women on Boards Program | MBA ITAM-Mexico | Industrial Engineer ITESM-Mexico.