Elisabete Miranda
Before she moved to the United States, Elisabete had already started and run eleven small businesses in Brazil. Some went better than others. Two of them she had to close, and she counts those among the most useful things she has ever learned.
She arrived without speaking a word of English, and CQ fluency came out of that. She knew what it was to sit in a room and not be understood, and millions of people were living the same thing, most consequentially in healthcare, where not being understood can cost you your life. She spent twenty five years building a culturally intelligent translation company to solve it, bootstrapped it from nothing into a multi-million dollar global business with a presence in twenty four countries, and sold it to private equity.
She led it the way she still believes a company should be led, with the heart in front. Put people first, build a place where they can be themselves at work, and the profit follows. Plenty of people called that naive. It turned out not to be.
She brings hard experience in hiring, scaling, finance, and exit, and proof that culture shows up on the bottom line.