Amb. Lino Gutierrez discusses his path from Cuban immigrant to two-time U.S. ambassador. He shares lessons on leadership, managing up, negotiating with Cubans in Grenada, navigating Washington politics, Hurricane Mitch, and political change in Argentina.
Ambassador Lino Gutierrez served as an Ambassador to Argentina as well as to Nicaragua, and as Acting Assistant Secretary of the Western Hemisphere Affairs Bureau. He is the Executive Director of the Una Chapman Cox Foundation, which also supports this podcast. In this episode, Ambassador Gutierrez discusses his experience from Cuban immigrant to diplomat. He shares lessons on leadership, managing up, negotiating with Cubans in Grenada, navigating Washington politics, increasing diversity at State, dealing with the crisis of Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua and stark political change in Argentina.
Special thanks to the Association of Diplomatic Studies and Training, the Una Chapman Cox Foundation, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and Harvard's Sama Kubba and Syed Ahmed.
Links mentioned in the interview:
- https://adst.org/wp-content/
uploads/2013/12/Gutierrez- Lino-1.pdf - https://www.uccoxfoundation.
org/programs/professional- development/ - https://www.mckinsey.com/
featured-insights/diversity- and-inclusion/diversity-wins- how-inclusion-matters - https://www.belfercenter.org/
publication/us-diplomatic- service-21st-century