Who is Glenn Llopis?

Meet Glenn Llopis (pronounced ‘yō-pēs), a Cuban-American entrepreneur and best selling author with an impressive roster of clients among Fortune 500 companies. He helps organizations leverage inclusive leadership by utilizing his strategies to create meaningful change in the workplace and transform their business goals into reality.

Glenn Llopis is a trailblazer in the business world, challenging traditional corporate strategies and inspiring innovative mindsets. As an accomplished writer and entrepreneur, Glenn seeks to empower individuals with knowledge that will help them stay ahead of rapidly-shifting workplace factors so they can drive sustainable growth for organizations across numerous industries including healthcare, retail, consumer packaged goods and beyond!

Learn about his passion for entrepreneurship and inclusive leadership. Glenn Llopis offers unique insights that can help your business achieve its goals.

Inspiration to Inclusive Leadership

Llopis’ current work on inclusive leadership is based on the well-grounded lessons of the “immigrant perspective” inspired by his father, Frank Llopis.

Frank was a prominent Latin music pioneer who introduced rock 'n' roll into the rhythms and sounds of Salsa and Merengue music with his quartet Los Llopis. A victim of Castro’s revolution, he and his wife eventually made it to the United States where he played one last concert before becoming part of the team that invented Miller Lite.

Early Career

Llopis graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree in political science. After UCLA, he fast-tracked at the Gallo Wine Company as a sales representative and then at Sunkist Juice Beverages, where he became the youngest executive in the company’s 100-year history.

Leading the successful turnaround of Sunkist’s juice beverage division opened the door for his next endeavor – at only 30 years old – as a senior executive at American Seafoods Company, leading the foodservice and retail business operational units. The result was an increase in market share, new brand introductions, and a full-scale transformation of the company.

Entrepreneur

In 1997, Llopis launched his first business, Luna Rossa Gourmet Foods, which focused on the sales, marketing and distribution of gourmet vegetables, pasta sauce, and salad dressing under its Luna Rossa and Chef’s Harvest brands.

In 2007, he founded the Glenn Llopis Group to focus his work on leadership and business development around the “immigrant perspective.” As part of GLLG, Llopis started the Center for Hispanic Leadership (CHL), which created competitive advantages for Fortune 500 companies

Bestselling Author

Llopis is a contributing writer to Forbes, Entrepreneur, and The Harvard Business Review. He was recognized as a top 20 influential writer at Forbes and a top 100 leadership speaker and business thinker by Inc. Magazine.

He is the bestselling author of the books Earning Serendipity, The Innovation Mentality, Leadership in the Age of Personalization and Unleashing Individuality. Through his books, Glenn Llopis has helped countless leaders and individual contributors unleash their individuality, master opportunity management, develop an innovation mentality and learn how to lead in a way that honors our age of personalization.

Nonprofit Affiliations

Glenn is a member of the Kellogg Innovation Network and serves on the advisory board of the Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

He is a board member for Lion's Heart, a national, non-profit community service organization for teen volunteering and leadership. Additionally, he is a mentor for Junior Achievement and a member of the exclusive Renaissance Weekend think-tank.

Family

Llopis lives in North Carolina with his wife and daughter.

After facing a number of obstacles in pursuit of becoming parents, Llopis and his wife persevered to realize their dream. Read more about this inspiring couple's journey on CNN – the perfect example of power through positivity, challenging norms and standing up for what they believe.