The Culture Compass | An Evening with Arturo Nuñez

Join us for an evening with executive and entrepreneur Arturo Nuñez, discussing his recently released book, THE CULTURE COMPASS.
About this Event

🎟 This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event! An RSVP grants general entry, but seating is not guaranteed, so please try and show up early. Can't make the event?

About The Book

For generations, success in corporate America has come with an unspoken expectation: adapt, assimilate, and leave parts of yourself behind. Not all at once. Just enough that, over time, you lose track of what you had to bargain away. Many learn to navigate these environments by code-switching and compartmentalizing, becoming effective in the system but disconnected from themselves.
The Culture Compass offers a different path.
Drawing on more than three decades inside some of the world’s most influential organizations, Arturo Nuñez presents a framework for navigating corporate America with clarity and confidence while staying rooted in your identity. He provides tangible skills and practices that make this shift in corporate leadership sustainable. It’s not about rejecting the system—it’s about seeing it clearly and understanding how power moves, how boardrooms work, and how decisions get made. And once you see it, you move differently. Not louder. Not less. More precise.
Compelling and nuanced, The Culture Compass provides the necessary tools for advancing to the C-suite and rewrites the narrative that you need to choose between success and being yourself. Because the things that make you different aren’t a liability. They’re your edge. You don't have to choose between winning and being yourself. You don’t have to shrink to succeed. You don’t have to leave parts of yourself behind to lead. You just have to know how to move.

About The Author

Arturo Nuñez is a seasoned executive, entrepreneur, and brand strategist with decades of experience helping build some of the world's most influential brands, including Apple, Nike, PepsiCo, the NBA, and Nubank. He is the founder and CEO of AIE Creative, where he advises companies on leadership, branding, and building cultures that become competitive advantages. He serves on the boards of The Estée Lauder Companies and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Previously, he was Chief Marketing Officer at Nubank and Head of Marketing for Latin America at Apple. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership positions at Nike and the NBA. Nuñez is multilingual, cofounded Black Joy Thrive's Black Men's Retreat, serves on the boards of The Anti-Recidivism Coalition and The Nyah Project, and was recently named one of Latin America's most influential marketing leaders by Advertising Week.