José Hernández

Featured Keynote Programs

This keynote is an impactful motivational talk where audiences leave so inspired, they re-evaluate and upgrade their personal and professional goals in life.

José Hernández empowers attendees through his anecdotal stories of hard work and perseverance. He shares a simple yet effective recipe that serves as an effective tool in the empowerment process. 

Audiences will learn:

• How to reach your full potential
• How to dream big when you are willing to work hard for it
• The 6-ingredient recipe to success that led him to his goal of becoming an astronaut

Jose talks about his experiences as a businessman, from owning a restaurant to creating a successful aerospace consulting firm to being coming back to his roots as a vineyard farmer and developing his own line of wines.

Jose discusses how he developed his leadership and communication skills both as a social advocate in various community-based organizations and through experiences as he moved up through middle/senior management positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and NASA.

This is a sensitivity training course where Jose points out that everyone has internal biases. Acknowledging and managing these biases not only allows us to treat everyone equally, but in an inclusive manner. In doing so, we can focus on individualistic needs. In a diverse workplace, differences exist, and people require support in different ways. Equity asks us to acknowledge that everyone has different needs, experiences, and opportunities.

This talks centers around the subject of common to high achievers, people who break barriers and/or are "first in their family to achieve." These achievements cause individuals to doubt their abilities to the point they feel like a fraud. It disproportionately affects people who break barriers and are one of the first in their families to have college graduate careers. They typically find it difficult to accept their accomplishments and many questions whether they're deserving of recognition and accolades. Jose not only talks about the subject, but also discuss methods he used to overcome such feelings.

This talk centers around the importance of staying on the leading edge of technology and how it affects our everyday lives. It introduces the concept of disruptive technologies, how to identify and take advantage of them.