Luis Vicente Garcia

Blogger, Brainstormer, Business leader, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Parent, Writer/Editor

Luis Vicente is an international speaker, a best-selling author and a business performance coach. Since 2017 he is the CEO of the Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Venamcham), Editor-In-Chief of the Business Venezuela magazine, host of 3 TED Circles (2020-2022) and host and co-organizer of the TEDxAltamira Women event in 2020, 2021 and more recently in 2022 in Caracas, Venezuela. Luis Vicente Garcia has a 35+ year professional career in the corporate managerial and financial fields and since 2013 in the Business Performance Coaching area. Luis has worked in both the manufacturing and service industries, and in a variety of companies, from small start-ups to large multinational corporations. This experience helped Luis gather the knowledge to become a leader and a motivational speaker An Economist, with an MBA and graduate studies in Management, Leadership and Organizational Strategies, he is a believer in continuing education and personal improvement. Luis Vicente was President of the Venezuelan Franchise Chamber (2017- 2019) and has been a professor of management and leadership at Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas since 2014. He writes in the BLOG "Motivando El Futuro" since 2010 (www.motivandoelfuturo.com) and today his articles are published in a variety of media, printed and digital. Luis writes regularly for the magazines Business Venezuela, El Estimulo, Pensando en Positivo, Pasion Pais and since 2021, he is a regular writer at Visionarias Magazine, a digital magazine and platform geared to the profesional and executive women. Luis has written two Spanish language books on franchising, 'Motivando al Futuro Franquiciado' and '101 Preguntas y Respuestas sobre las Franquicias'; and since 2013, has co-authored over 15 international best-selling books. He is a member of the Public Speakers Academy, the National Academy of Best-selling Authors and the Best-selling Authors International Association. As CEO of Venamcham, Luis has been able to promote sustaniability and women related issues. In 2019 he produced and organized Venamcham's Women Leadership Summit that will arrive to its 5th year in 2023. In July 2022, under his leadership, Venamcham became the first Venezuelan chamber to adhere to the UN's Women Empowering Principles (WEPs). And he promotes sustainability issues working with the UN office in Venezuela. Luis works directly with teams to help them improve the performance of their companies, being a team builder, a leader and motivator, with a positive attitude towards life. Luis has a wonderful family, having been married to wife Virginia for 30 years and they have two sons. Today he is also a Goodwill Ambassador for Goodwill Venezuela and promoter of the Ayacucho Symphony Orchestra. He lives in Caracas, Venezuela.

Guiding others to reach their GOALS, achieve a higher level of performance, and create and develop new leaders throughout Latin America. I also love baseball and writing.

I have been working for many years studying how personal motivation and positive attitude can work together in our brain and in our hearts so that we can be better persons and as a result, better professionals. In my Blog, Motivando el Fururo (www.motivandoelfuturo.com - which translates into English as Motivating the Future) I have been writing about these two topics since 2010. And they do work better when combined together. This is why I created #Motitud, which is the result of Motivation plus Attitude.

Finance, Franchising, Leadership, Motitud, Motivation, Posotive Attitude

I attended my first TEDx event in 2015 in Houston, though I have watched TED Talks for years. As a professor, I also use many TED Talks that illustrate the topics in management, team work and leadership that I teach. And 2020 was been very significant year in my TED related activities. In April 2020 I hosted my first TED Circles in Caracas (my next milestone will be my 50th Circle by the end of this year). On October 2020 along with Melissa Serrano, we organized the first TEDx Countdown on the Global Warming issues celebrated in Venezuela and then in November, we organized and I co-hosted the first ever TEDx Women event done in Venezuela, the TEDxAltamira Women 2020. We have already produced and organized the TEDxAltamira Women event in 2021 and then in 2022. So I believe my TED journey is just beginning.