Mariela De La Mora: Emotional Intelligence; What It Is, Why It Is So Essential, And How We Can Increase It

Make a conscious effort to have conversations with people from completely different backgrounds to yours. A big part of developing EQ is stepping outside of our bubbles.

As a part of our series about Emotional Intelligence, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mariela De La Mora.

Mariela De La Mora is a Life Coach and certified EQ Leadership Coach who helps women of color become powerhouse leaders of purpose-driven brands. Her mission is to help women of color break glass ceilings by healing the generational trauma and cultural conditioning holding them back from becoming the leader they can be.

She was named one of the ‘Top 10 Leadership Coaches’ by Yahoo! Finance and has coached 6- and 7-figure CEOs and even leaders in the United Nations. She is also a single parent and the first in her family to break pretty much every conventional norm.

Mariela previously spent 16 years in Marketing while leading teams internationally. As a first-generation Mexican American, she was often the only woman of color in senior leadership and had to break past systemic and mindset barriers to do it.