Speaker · Keynotes & workshops
The leadership skills nobody teaches you when you get promoted.
Dr. Candy Flores-Gracia has spent nearly 20 years across science, technology and entrepreneurship. When she started leading teams, nobody taught her how, so she learned the hard way. Now she helps tech teams build leaders people want to follow, with research-based tools and a gender lens. She speaks in English and Spanish.
Mexico’s National Entrepreneur Award 2016 · Globant Women that Build Award 2022 · NSF I-Corps instructor · #IAmRemarkable facilitator · U.S. Department of State IVLP fellow (2017)
Speaking topics
The Feedback Gap
Why high performers, especially women, often get the least actionable feedback, and how leaders can fix it with a simple, evidence-based structure.
Leading Without the Double Standard
How the same behavior reads as authority in some leaders and arrogance in others, and what teams and allies can do about it.
Lead Without Asking Permission
How tech leaders can ask for budget, people and priorities in the language leadership understands, and make their team’s work visible.
Perform Without Burning Out
Delegation, workload and the invisible “glue work” that falls on the same people, and what leaders can change before burnout costs them their best talent.
#IAmRemarkable
A free workshop that helps people talk about their achievements and challenges modesty norms at work.
Formats
- Keynote: 30 to 60 minutes
- Workshop: 2 hours, up to 20 people
- Panel or fireside chat: 30 to 60 minutes · a guided conversation with a host, with time for audience Q&A
Virtual or in person, anywhere. English or Spanish.
About Candy
Candy holds a PhD in biology and a master’s degree in science and technology commercialization. She has led technology transfer and innovation programs at UNAM, CINVESTAV and INAOE, led operations at Ironhack Mexico, and trained 200+ teams through the U.S. National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program. She founded CandyFG to help tech teams lead with evidence and equity.
