Michelle Maldonado

Michelle Maldonado is Founder and CEO of Lucenscia (pronounced loo-SENSE-see-ah), a firm dedicated to human flourishing and mindful business transformation. She is an internationally certified mindfulness and emotional intelligence teacher and practitioner with the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, Genos International and GolemanEI, respectively.

Maldonado is a former corporate and tech attorney turned business leader who understands diverse industry sectors, mission, and service. She is passionate about learning, helping elevate human consciousness and alleviating suffering in the world. Her work focuses on personal and professional leadership development at the pivotal intersection of mindfulness, unconscious bias, emotional intelligence, authenticity, and compassion, nestled on a solid foundation of neuroscience and research and taught through an equity lens to help leaders do their inner work to create positive and sustainable outer impact.

Maldonado serves as Senior Faculty for 1440 Multiversity's Leadership Center, founding faculty for Daniel Goleman's Inaugural Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification program and Senior Fellow with Bill George's True North Leadership program, co-teaching with Bill George (former CEO of Medtronic) and Scott Kriens (Chairman and former CEO of Juniper Networks). She also is lead curriculum designer and teacher for the United Nation Foundation's Peace On Purpose (PoP) program taught worldwide.

Maldonado is a highly, sought-after keynote speaker, thought leader, coach, and strategist collaborating with government agencies, corporations, non-profits/NGOs and higher-ed communities around the world helping to make workplaces and world spaces more human through leadership presence, performance and impact.

As a result of her work, Maldonado has been recognized among the “12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement" (U.S. 2020), as “Woman of The Year,” “Top Corporate Leader," and was inducted into the Golden Key International Honour Society for her holistic approach to cultivating leadership presence, compassion, well-being and performance impact. Her work has been featured in conference venues and publications including, the DQ Institute in association with the World Economic Forum, United Nations Global Engagement Summit, Human Capital Institute, the Mindful Leader Summit, Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Training Magazine, Leadership Excellence, Huff Post, and Thrive Global.

Maldonado also recently was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates where proudly represents the residents of the 50th District.