Latin American female business executives: an interesting surprise

About the author

Connie Cárdenas. Full Professor, School of Management, Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá). Coordinator of the “Leadership and Feminine Awareness” program, through which she has developed workshops and courses for executive women and men in Bogotá and other three capital cities in Colombia. Chairs a research project about women in power positions (MEPLA) and carries out a seminar on this subject. Presently coordinates the university’s Gender Portfolio. Holds a psychology degree from Universidad Javeriana and an EdD from the University of Massachussets, Amherst. Was Academic Vice-Rector of Universidad de los Andes. Has taught courses and chaired research seminars about several women’s issues, organizations and their power structures and has published articles and books around these fields (i.e. Mujeres y Vida Corporativa en Latinoamérica: Retos y Dilemas) and her most recent one about her research with and about women (En Busca del liderazgo femenino). She is also a couple’s therapist and published a book about her clinical practice (La relación de pareja: la importancia de la diferencia). Was Visiting Professor at the Psychology Department, U. Mass., Amherst; chaired the Psychology Department and the MBA program at the Business School, also at Universidad de los Andes. Married and has a daughter, who is a clinical psychologist.