Rosanna María Salcedo

This reflection is part of the work I explore more deeply in Leading Bravely, the book I’m writing about resilience, loss, and the courage it takes to rebuild a self when everything familiar has changed. If you are navigating your own unexpected life—your own broken body, broken heart, broken plan—my hope is that you will find recognition here, and maybe even possibility. Bravery is not always loud. Sometimes it looks like walking slowly. Sometimes it looks like asking for help. Sometimes it...

Leadership is, at its core, relational. It is not about authority or control, but about cultivating trust and belonging — the invisible threads that connect people to one another and to a shared purpose. Without those threads, leadership becomes transactional, and transformation becomes superficial. Equity is what strengthens and sustains those connections. It creates the conditions in which real change, personal, organizational, and societal, can take root. People cannot bring their full...

There are places that live in us long after we leave them. For me, the Dominican Republic is one of those places — a landscape of memory, spirit, and return. I’ve spent a lifetime moving between worlds: North and South, land and sea, past and present. Each crossing has taught me that belonging isn’t about where we’re born, but where our soul finds stillness. This is a story about home — and the way we carry it with us. I was born in New York City. When people asked, “Where are you from?” I...