Valeria Cortes

Associate faculty

Leadership Studies
Tourism & Hospitality Management
Communication & Culture

Valeria Cortes is a leadership educator and practitioner, passionate about leadership for social change in multicultural contexts. She has extensive experience facilitating change within the non-profit sector and the community level and has worked with undergraduate and graduate students in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Her research and practice include the use of arts-based methods, particularly transformational theatre, as a tool for developing systems thinking.

Experience

Cortes is the founder of Tlatoa Consulting where she offers leadership and intercultural education as well as training and program/curriculum development for various sectors. Before joining Royal Roads University as an associate faculty member in 2013, Cortes held executive leadership roles in Ontario, managed the leadership development program at the University of Toronto, and was the director of student development at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico.

Education

2022
Certificate in Advanced Facilitation

Royal Roads University

2013
Master of Arts in Leadership Studies

University of Victoria

2006
Master of Education

Tecnológico de Monterrey

2006
Enhancing the Student Experience Certificate

University of Toronto

2000
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Engineering

Tecnológico de Monterrey

Publications

Cortés, V., Brigham, T.,  & Loffler, K. (2023). Natoonikew Aansaamb: Searching together for learning and resurgence. Papers on Post-secondary Learning and Teaching, 6, 17-27.

Cortés, V. (2017). Leadership and social justice. In J. P. Dugan, N. Turman, A. Barnes, & M. Torrez (Eds.), Leadership theory: A facilitator’s guide for cultivating critical perspectives. Jossey-Bass

Cortés, V., & Sommer, R. (2016). Action-Research. In. R. Gifford (Ed.), Research Methods for Environmental Psychology. Wiley.