Speaker Bureau

Award-winning copywriter/translator and consultant Rico Paul Vallejos is a frequent presenter and bilingual MC at business functions, marketing conferences, community events, and university classrooms.

Informed by cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics, he speaks on:

● Cultural marketing (Hispanic Marketing topics, International Marketing, Gen Z Latins and Spanglish, Latin Cultural Values, Reaching the Affluent Latin Market)

● DEIB topics (Doing DEI Right, Misguided DEIB, Cultural Competence, the Immigrant Experience, and others)

● World cultures and languages (Blended Languages, Culture Clash, Acing the Overseas Assignment, Conversational Spanish)

Rico is Trustee Emeritus at Hamline University and taught Multicultural Communications in the Graduate School of Business at the University of St. Thomas (Master of International Management program). He has worked in six countries and loves the acculturation process, despite the culture clashes that it may involve.

Rico has presented at venues such as 3M, University of Minnesota (Carlson School of Management), Public Relations Society of America, University of St. Thomas, Target, Florida State University, Hispanic and Multicultural Marketing Conferences, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, Inter-American Congress of Psychology, Linn Benton Community College, USAID educational programs, Women’s Economic Roundtable, Bethel University, Metropolitan State University, and advertising clubs across the United States.

His bilingual MC experience includes many nonprofit galas, as well as numerous Cinco de Mayo and Hispanic Heritage Month events.