2025 Conference Sessions

2025

Watch our professional sessions.

Thank you for joining us at the Prospanica 2025 NSHMBA Conference & Career Expo!

Your energy, engagement, and enthusiasm helped make the event a truly memorable experience. From inspiring sessions to meaningful connections, the conference highlighted the power of comunidad and the impact of coming together to learn, grow, and support one another. Below you can watch any sessions you may have missed during conference.

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Professional Development Sessions

Invest Wisely: Find the Right Business Graduate School & Program for You

This session helps prospective students identify the programs that align with their professional goals, values, and financial reality. Learn how to evaluate program formats, curriculum, alumni networks, and support systems to make an informed decision. Whether you’re exploring full-time MBAs, part-time, or specialized master’s programs, this session equips you to choose a program that builds your future with purpose and clarity.

Setting Yourself Up for Success in Application Season

This session covers how to craft a compelling story, secure strong letters of recommendation, and stand out in essays and interviews for business school applications. Learn how to align career vision with school values, how to tackle common challenges faced by first-generation applicants, and how to avoid common pitfalls. Whether you’re just getting started or refining your materials, you’ll leave this session with actionable steps and renewed confidence.

Behind the MBA Curtain: Navigating the Realities of Business School

This honest session pulls back the curtain on the MBA experience, featuring current students and recent grads who share the highs, lows, and surprises of business school life. From navigating group projects and recruiting pressures to managing mental health and imposter syndrome, we explore what students wish they had known. Whether you’re applying or already admitted, this session will give you the real talk you need to make the most of your journey.

Company Industry Charla: Zillow

Join small-group charlas (chats) with industry professionals for honest, direct conversations about the realities of different career paths. These interactive sessions give you space to ask questions, explore emerging trends, and understand what it’s like to work in fields like finance, tech, marketing, consulting, healthcare, and more.

The Art of Influence

Have you ever felt that others are not listening to your ideas or seem resistant to your proposals? In this course we will discuss why this happens, the conditions that make it most challenging, and how to gain the engagement you are looking for. You will learn various techniques for ethically influencing others towards better outcomes.

Career Compass: Mapping Your Journey Beyond Your Strategic Pivot

This session guides professionals who are making or considering a career change—whether to a new industry, role, or entrepreneurial path. Learn how to identify transferable skills, reframe your story, and make intentional moves toward long-term goals. Featuring stories from professionals who’ve navigated bold transitions, this session provides clarity, encouragement, and tools to help you pivot with purpose—not panic.

Industry Charlas: Careers and Trends in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)

Breaking Free from Operational Mindsets: Embracing Strategic Leadership

This session challenges attendees to shift from tactical thinking to strategic leadership. Learn how to anticipate challenges, align decisions with long-term goals, and influence change beyond your direct responsibilities. With real-world examples and frameworks from executive leaders, this session will help you think like a strategist—even before you hold the title. Ideal for professionals ready to expand their leadership impact and reframe how they add value within their organization.

Latinos, The Growing Financial Force in America

This session, sponsored and presented by Thrivent Financial, explores the evolving financial landscape of the Latino community—highlighting key trends, opportunities, and strategies for sustained growth. From increasing investment participation to rising small business ownership, we’ll discuss how Latinos are reshaping the future of financial success in America. Learn how our community is building generational wealth, navigating financial systems with confidence, and leveraging our cultural strengths to thrive in a complex economy.

Advancing People-First Practices in Corporate America

This talk explores what the next chapter of equity work looks like in corporate America—from shifting employee expectations to the growing demand for measurable impact. We’ll examine how organizations can move beyond performative gestures toward sustainable, system-level change, and what leaders must do to embed equity into the DNA of their business. Attendees will gain insights into emerging trends, potential pitfalls, and strategies to drive meaningful progress.

AI Ethics in Leadership

This session explores the critical role of ethical guardrails in guiding responsible AI adoption, ensuring fairness, accountability, and transparency. Equally important, we highlight the value of heightened emotional intelligence in leadership—enabling leaders to build trust, foster inclusion, and make balanced decisions in times of uncertainty. Participants will gain insights into aligning AI strategies with organizational values while cultivating the emotional awareness needed to lead ethically in a digital future.

Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors

Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors! Your support was crucial to our mission to empower and enable Hispanic professionals to achieve their full educational, economic, and social potential.