Robert Rodriguez and Andrés Tapia explore common barriers that limit the upward mobility of Latinos in the U.S. workplace and discuss strategies for overcoming them, particularly for securing executive roles.

Latinos are the fastest-growing demographic in the U.S. As of 2021, Latinos accounted for almost 60 million of the 320 million American population.

Because many Latinos in the U.S. are young, they stand to have an outsized impact on U.S. social and economic factors as time goes on.

Robert Rodriguez is president of a diversity consultancy firm specializing in building greater inclusion in the workplace. Andrés Tapia is a diversity and inclusion strategist and bestselling author.

In their 2021 book, Auténtico, Rodriguez and Tapia leverage years of corporate experience to explain why Latinos have historically lagged behind in securing executive roles and how this landscape can shift toward greater inclusion.