Services
Collaborative, customized, and compassionate.
Whatever your goals, challenges, and aspirations, Dr. Borrego is ready to listen, learn, solve, and collaborate with you to move your vision forward. Real change starts with real conversations. Reach out to Dr. Borrego today to begin the process.
Facilitator and Moderator
A gifted communicator, Dr. Borrego facilitates productive and effective activities for a wide range of audiences and organizations. From workshops to retreats, celebrations to ceremonies, large conferences to small teams — Dr. Borrego understands how to focus and facilitate events and discussions that make a difference.
Dr. Borrego blends proven facilitation best practices with empathy and humor to create safe, inclusive environments where every voice is heard, respected, and valued. An advocate of storytelling as a way to share perspectives, she has the uncanny ability to help people approach difficult and uncomfortable conversations with courage and compassion.
Leadership Development
Dr. Borrego works directly with organizations, leadership teams, executives, and entrepreneurs to build strategic leadership capacity, competence, and confidence while creating more equitable environments. As a mentor as well as experienced consultant, Dr. Borrego does the work to understand the vision and goals of her clients, what it will take to reach them, then guides them toward professional and personal growth.
By empowering individuals to voice and share their stories, she helps leaders identify their personal mission, live their values, and develop authentic executive brands. With a focus on servant leadership, Dr. Borrego additionally helps managers model compassion, inclusion, and purpose-driven qualities to inspire more effective and engaged teams.
Speaking
Dr. Borrego has been inspiring audiences around the globe for nearly 30 years. A dynamic keynote speaker, presenter, and panelist, she has a talent for energizing and engaging audiences, and connecting with people on a personal as well as professional level.
Dr. Borrego speaks authentically, candidly, with humor and humility on a range of topics relevant to today’s organizations, including strategic leadership development, programs and practices, intersectionality, equity, inclusivity, and the impact a single individual can have on an entire community and organization.
Speaking Engagements
Courage Every Day—Critical Leaders at Work
Casanova Distinguished Lecture
April 1, 2023, Claremont, CA
Student Affairs & Enrollment Management
Becoming a Provost Academy
July 26, 2022, Portland, OR
Unpacking Power Dynamics with Cultural Humility
Southern California Grantmakers Family Philanthropy Conference
June 20, 2019, Los Angeles, CA
Emerging Leaders
American Association of Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
June 1–June 4, 2019, Washington, D.C.
Your Work Matters!
NASPA IV-East 2017 Regional Conference
November 2017, Detroit, MI
Leadership Reputation Management — Protect, Promote, Evolve
AASCU 2016 President’s Summer Council Meeting
July 2016, Portland, OR
Make a Difference: Move the Needle in Michigan
MI-ACE
June 2017, Lansing, MI
Understanding My Privilege
TEDX Pasadena Women
October 2016, Pasadena, CA
Extending Your Brand Without Over-Extending Your Resources
CASE District VII Conference
March 2013, San Francisco, CA
Women’s Academic Leadership Explored with Gender + Diversity in Twenty-first Century Higher Education: Social Class and Higher Education Leadership
California State University, Dominguez Hills
April 2011, Carson, CA
Challenges of First-Generation Students and Their Families
University of Idaho
February 2010, Moscow, ID
Organizational Consultant
A deeply experienced administrator and a first-generation college graduate, Dr. Borrego has witnessed first-hand the transformative power of education in opening opportunities.
Since 1990, Dr. Borrego has been collaborating with institutions and organizations to resolve their most pressing challenges and reach their goals with breakthrough solutions and entrepreneurial resourcefulness.
In her work, Dr. Borrego brings together a variety of stakeholders to work collaboratively and compassionately with students, staff, educators, leaders, parents, and diverse communities to find common ground, solve challenges, and achieve shared goals. Current and completed projects include:
American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Postsecondary Value Commission
Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven CN
University of California, Riverside
Expanding Personal Cultural Competency
James Irvine Foundation, Claremont, CA
Campus Diversity Initiative
University of Southern California (USC)
LA Colleges’ Violence Prevention Project
Arizona State University, Flagstaff, AZ
Effective communications, problem-solving and conflict resolution workshops and presentations for faculty, administrators, and students.