Never Give Up with Carol Velandia | Founder of Equal Access Language Services | C-SuiteHotSeat E50

Episode 50 June 07, 2023 00:15:32
Never Give Up with Carol Velandia | Founder of Equal Access Language Services | C-SuiteHotSeat E50
C-Suite HotSeat
Never Give Up with Carol Velandia | Founder of Equal Access Language Services | C-SuiteHotSeat E50

Jun 07 2023 | 00:15:32

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Show Notes

Carol G. Velandia Pardo CHI, PMP, MBA, LMSW is a University of Maryland Graduate Professor, language access advocate, award winning curriculum developer, and the founder and CEO of Equal Access Language Services. She Developed the Interprofessional Curriculum: Effective Inclusion through Language Access which will be taught to three different schools at the University of Maryland in Spring 2024. As a social worker, interpreter, academic, and entrepreneur, Carol’s mission is to expand the concepts of Cultural Competence and Diversity Equity and Inclusion by adding language access as a key component. She hopes to promote a cultural shift that will result in the effective inclusion, and equal access of 25 million multilingual people to public and private services, and the betterment of their healthcare, justice, and education outcomes. She enjoys traveling, movies and dancing flamenco!

Hosts:
Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights
Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.

Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights
Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.
Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer
Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights
Antonella Tiezzi - Design

00:00 Carol G. Velandia Pardo | Founder & CEO of Equal Access Language Services
00:40 What does your company do?
00:58 What was your dream career as a child?
02:07 How do you like to spend your free time?
02:39 3 destinations you'd like to visit
05:25 Best advice you've ever been given?
06:13 What inspired you to start your company?
09:06 Biggest challenge
09:36 Your biggest success
11:17 Valuable business lesson
12:09 The secret sauce!
13:18 Who are your mentors?

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