Keynotes
View All →The Urgent Case for Reinventing Education
Higher education was designed for stability. The world it claims to serve is defined by volatility, inequality, and systemic change. Enrollm...
Legado: Born to Design, Not to Adjust
Georgetown, 2025. A commencement address to the Class of 2025. Leadership is not a title. It is authorship… the courage to imagine the worl...
Building Social Impact & Enterprise in the Americas
What happens when technology, education, and community development stop operating in parallel and start converging? This address examines th...
Reflections
View All →I asked my father if AI scares him.
There is an archive no one has watched. I’ve been building since 2013. Thirteen years of setbacks, resets and defeats n...
I built my wife the assistant she needed
Last week many of you checked on me… where I'd gone, whether I was okay. I read every message. Thank you. I think a lot...
even a loss / twenty-eight thousand days…
My son is learning words. I wonder what he is learning from everything I haven’t put into words yet. The way I respond...
Publications
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The Power of Storytelling
On how stories shape reality, create institutions, and build the futures we choose to inhabit.
Available on Amazon → Podcast
The Embassy File
Diplomatic briefings on leadership, strategy, and the Americas.
Explore Episodes → Newspaper
Al Dia Columns
Essays on leadership, identity, and the Americas -- published in Al Dia and syndicated across the hemisphere.
Read Columns →About Hector
I live between Mexico City and Washington, D.C., where I build institutions, write about leadership and strategy, and work with organizations navigating complexity across borders. Each project began with a question worth answering.
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