ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
What’s Actually Working?
Disruptors often feel shifts before they are widely named. This opening conversation invites participants to surface the changes they are noticing in their sectors and reflect on how those shifts are shaping their leadership. By sharing quick insights across industries, the group begins to map the pressures, tensions, and emerging opportunities where disruptor leadership is most needed.
Workshop Outcomes:
Participants gain a clearer picture of cross-sector trends, pressures, and opportunities affecting leadership today.
Participants begin identifying shared challenges and potential areas where disruptor leadership may be needed.
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Alexander Cena
Chief Program Officer
LEAP
Alexander Cena is the Chief Programs Officer for LEAP (Leadership Education Asian Pacifics), where he is responsible for the efficient, cost-effective, and timely delivery and coordination of community and corporate leadership development programs, workshops, and events. He is a leadership development professional specializing in diversity & inclusion work and community organizing in the Asian Pacific Island Desi American (APIDA) community.
Mr. Cena has over 11 years of service in the APIDA community. In 2009, as a Programs Manager for a youth development organization called Asian American LEAD, co-created the first Asian American youth summit in the Washington DC area. Between 2013 and 2016, he served as the Director of Asian Pacific Islander American Affairs at the University of Florida and opened the first Asian Pacific Islander American student center on a college campus in the southeastern United States. After moving to Virginia, he joined the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities as their Community Outreach Coordinator and later became the Center Director for Higher Achievement. He maintained his commitment to the APIDA community by holding positions such as Vice President and founder of the Asian American Association at Virginia Commonwealth University, and as a member of the education subcommittee for the Asian Advisory Board of Virginia.
Mr. Cena also serves as the Board Treasurer of the Asian American Justice+ Innovation Lab (AAJIL). AAJIL is a volunteer organization that positions itself as a community racial justice incubator committed to education, community-building, and innovation to promote justice, radical love, and emergence.
Raynelle Rino
Founder, CEO and Certified Professional Coach
Rino Consulting Solutions
A long time Bay Area social sector professional, Raynelle began her career in the sciences as an ecology field researcher then moved onto grassroots environmental education and social justice organizing. Her love for nature and youth development brought her to teach in unique settings like alternative high schools, environmental justice neighborhoods, parks, and juvenile justice facilities. Her personal journey through life up to now has carved a well-rounded and powerful pathway with the support and guidance from her Spiritual Mentor, and Curandera,Tereza Iniguez-Flores.
In 2016 Raynelle started Rino Consulting Solutions, a nature-based consulting firm that provides coaching and consulting services for professionals and other businesses. Its mission is to support and inspire the leaders of today to live in the confidence of their identities as they move through a world in the midst of social, racial, and environmental transformation. Raynelle is a certified professional coach throughLeadership That Works. Her "Hike It Out Coaching" Programs blend her science, environmental justice, and spiritual connection to nature by providing "Healing Hikes", where clients increase their capacity to create change with the support and guidance of the nature experience. To read more about the healing hike experience, read this feature inOutside Magazine.