When organizations speak about women and business growth they think of Frances
Frances Rios is recognized as a thought provoking speaker that provides million dollar solutions.
Her focus is to position companies as the preferred by the female talent while supporting women reach their professional goals.
After graduating in 1994 with a degree in broadcast journalism from Loyola University in New Orleans, Frances became a reporter for WAPA TV PR, and then a spokesperson for Fortune 100 companies like Walmart and Humana Health Plans in the United States. During her tenure with those Fortune companies, her leadership and expertise allowed her to strengthen their reputation, increase financial results, and manage crisis’.
Rios left the corporate world to venture as an entrepreneur, and has been the CEO of Frances Rios Enterprises for 11 years. Through her company she has had an impact on thousands of women, men, and companies in the Americas, by her dynamic-interactive conferences and proprietary diagnostic tools.
She went on to creating the Women Who Lead Summit™ the largest summit in the Latin America exclusively for high level executives, the W Certified Company™, a unique diagnostic tool which provides crucial knowledge for executives to attract, keep, and promote the best female talent; the Women Who Lead Academy™ a virtual program to provide women - in fluent Spanish- the tools they need to achieve more, professionally, and most recently, the Women Who Lead Accelerator™, a three day retreat for women who want to speed-forward their careers.
Companies such as Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Walmart, Microsoft, Chubb Insurance, The Coca-Cola Company, Merck, and UTC Aerospace Systems are some of her valued and loyal client partners.
Being her expertise on business, but specifically the female talent, Frances has been a speaker at the Forbes magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit and was appointed to the Women’s Council in Puerto Rico by the Governor, Hon. Ricardo Rosselló.
Rios is the only member accepted by the National Speakers Association and the Global Speakers Federation in Latin America.
She is an often sought after subject matter expert on inclusion, stereotypes in advertising, crisis management, and strategic communications by international and local media outlets including: CNN, Forbes, Univision, ABC, FOX, and Telemundo, among others.
