Collective Leadership Strategies

06/16/2023

Congratulations to our Co-Founder and Charman-of-the-Board Dr. Jonathan Pérez for being recognized as an emerging Latino leader from the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and all of the amazing leaders here in Fort Worth, TX.

11/26/2022

It's Small Business Saturday! We want to celebrate our friends who are grinding their way to economic liberty and a better world for all. Check our latest blog post for some real talk and a free resource to help walk you through the goal-setting and strategic planning process.

Don't forget to shop small today and every day!

https://www.collectiveleadershipstrategies.com/post/small-business-saturday-guide-for-mission-alignment

A 100% free to you roadmap for nonprofit goal setting and strategic planning

10/24/2022

When is the last time you made a decision to level up your business? For Collective Leadership Strategies, that is today. Please join us in welcoming Reginald Robinson our newest equity partner, to the team!

Don't know Reggie? Let's tell you what you need to know.

After interfacing with the far-reaching devastation caused by racism in our public schools, Reggie Robinson has committed himself to be an equity accelerator and ferocious warrior in the undoing of persistent, recalcitrant anti-Blackness within the education system and beyond. With an impetus to ensure that ‘good’ and ‘enough’ never sit next to each other with regard to D.E.I. programming, he continues to evangelize his deconstruct, disrupt, and dismantle message by delivering seminars, keynotes, and other deep learning experiences that serve both the public and private sectors. His possibility in the world is that we understand race in personal and profound ways. Then translate these insights into practices and an operating advantage that effectively eliminates racial disparities.

Collective Leadership Strategies supports businesses to see stronger outcomes with an antiracist lens

10/07/2022

Did you know that Google is investing in the success of Latino-founded startups through non-equity cash awards, software credits, and hands-on support? Take a look at the entrepreneurs who are beneficiaries of the effort to date!

The Google for Startups Black Founders Fund provides non-dilutive capital and high-touch support for Black founders in the US, Brazil, and Europe.

10/03/2022

“The problem with this narrative [that great leaders have descended from heaven to be among us and guide us] is that it absolves us of our duty as citizens to help mold and encourage the current and future leaders of our society. None of our great leaders suddenly appeared on the scene. They emerged because their families, friends, teachers, neighbors - and even foes - helped make them who they became.” -James C. Harrington for the Huston Chronicle

There are myriad lessons that can be taken from the life and legacy of César Chávez. Most notably as lifted up in this opinion piece from last March- he didn’t do it alone. Nor did he ever claim to. Chávez valued collective leadership whether he was organizing political action around labor with colleagues Dolores Huerta and Larry Itliong through their work at United Farm Workers Union, or supporting the efforts of his friends as they advocated for land back efforts (Tijerina), organizing young people around the Chicano movement (Gonzales), or building political power through electoral politics (Gutierrez).

A massive cult of personality has been built up around Chávez’s legacy. There has also been significant criticism of the man who is arguably the most famous Latino leader in US history. In a recent article about the renaming of schools in San Francisco LA Times columnist Gustavo Arellano wrote, “History — life — is not an easy-peasy snap-judgment call. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: Every saint had a past, and every sinner has a future. And Chavez is perhaps as great an example of this in California history. “

On that note, we encourage our audience to spend a moment this week to examine parallels - in your own leadership and the leaders around you - with that of César Chávez.

After returning from the Navy, he would spend Saturdays with his friends, drinking beer...

09/30/2022

Dr. José Ángel Gutiérrez is an attorney and professor at University of Texas at Arlington, and is more widely known from his efforts during the Mexican Civil Rights movement. He is also the third of the group of activists known as “The Four Horsemen of the Chicano Movement.”

Today we share this video for you to hear his words directly from him.

https://youtu.be/QveyqjN4b0E

On March 2, 2022, Professor Luis Fraga at the University of Notre Dame interviewed Transformative Latino Leader José Angel Gutiérrez. Gutiérrez is an activis...

09/29/2022

Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales is the second member of “The Four Horsemen of the Chicano movement” who we share with you. Corky was a boxer, Perot, and community organizer who founded the Crusade for Justice, led a group in the Poor People's March on Washington, and organized a resistance at West High School after a teacher made racist comments.

https://www.escuelatlatelolco.org/Corky.html

09/28/2022

Be sure to tune into this live event tonight with CommUnity Frontline and our very own Jonathan Perez!

09/28/2022

Allow us to tell you about Reies López Tijerina- the first of the gentlemen known as “The Four Horsemen of the Chicano movement” (César Chávez, Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales, José Ángel Gutiérrez, and Reies López Tijerina) whose legacy we would like to share with our audience this month.

“In 1967, López Tijerina brought the issue of land rights to national attention when he led a raid on the Tierra Amarilla county courthouse in New Mexico. Along with his followers, López Tijerina took up arms against the authorities.” Of the four López Tijerina was considered to be the most militant because of events like this. Despite the fact that he spent a considerable amount of time in Prison, Reies holds an even more amount of respect among young Chicano activists.

https://notevenpast.org/the-king-of-adobe-reies-lopez-tijerina-lost-prophet-of-the-chicano-movement-by-lorena-oropeza-2019/

09/27/2022

Esteban Hotesse is the only Dominican born member of the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the only Afro-Latino members of the US military who served during WWII. Hotesse lived a short life, dying at just 26 years old during a routine training exercise. Hotesse and his colleagues are known for their involvement in the early fight for civil rights and drawing the roadmap for civil disobedience used throughout the movement which is still employed today.

Esteban Hotesse was the only Dominican-born member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, as well as one of the few people born in a Spanish-speaking nation to serve the United Stated during World War II. Hotesse was born on February 11, 1919, in the town of … Read MoreEsteban Hotesse (1919-1945)

09/21/2022

09/20/2022

This year for the theme is "Building Prosperity and Healthy Communities." As such, we can't think of a better person to highlight than Beto Pérez, the founder of is an example of how world changing it can be when decision makers choose to buck the status quo and embrace their culture.

Learn more about Beto and the fateful day in 2001 when a mixed up exercise tape changed his life.

Colombian dancer Beto Perez first came up with the idea behind Zumba when he was 16.