Professional Speaking, Keynotes, Workshops, and Seminars
Dr. Luis Martínez-Fernández is an experienced and acclaimed bilingual professional speaker. He speaks, gives keynote speeches, and makes multi-media presentations on a variety of subjects in his fields of expertise. He also serves as a motivational speaker.
Sample clients and venues
- Social Studies Coalition of Delaware
- Cuban American Bar Association
- National Society of Newspaper Columnists
- National Council for History Education
- International Association of Tour Directors and Guides
- Florida Library Association
- American Historical Association
- Sunshine State Teaching and Learning Conference
- College Board Forum
- National Association of Hispanic Journalists
- Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy
- Florida Bar International Law Section
- Queens Borough (NYC) Library
- Orange County Library
- Florida Association of Social Studies Supervisors
- Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center
- Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas
- Indigenous and Latinx Delaware Teachers Workshop
- Word of South Festival of Literature and Music
- Designory Advertising
- NASCAR
- Adsmovil
- Creators Publishing
- St. Cloud School District
- Downtown Orlando Public Library
- The Jefferson Monticello
- Kennedy Space Center
- National Humanities Center
- Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Greater Orlando
- Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Recent additions
- Incapable of Genius: Limitations, Challenges, and Dangers of ChatGPT
- I never Left the Classroom: Reflections on Education, Reading, and Writing
- Protecting Free Speech, Freedom of the Press and Academic Freedom
- The Art and Craft of Column Writing
Latinos/Hispanics, Cultural Fluency, Diversity
- Beyond Salsa Dancing, Sombreros, and Empanadas: Latin America's Rich Culture
- Translating Hispanic/Latino Cultures
- How to Best Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
- Who Is Missing at the Table? Creating an Institutional Culture of Diversity and Inclusiveness
- Don Quixote in the Boardroom: Hispanic/Latino Culture, a Toolbox for Business Success
- Latinos in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty First Century
- The Art and Diplomacy of Haggling: Lessons in Cross-Cultural Communications
- Our "Weaknesses" Are Our Strengths: A Closer Look at Hispanic/Latino Culture
- Demographic Transformations and Latino Politics in the United States
- Reaching Hispanic/Latino Consumers, Job Candidates, Donors, and Voters
- Toward a Global Culture? Not Quite Yet
- Ten Defining Characteristics of Hispanic Culture
- Diversifying the Workplace: It Makes Business Sense and Is the Right Thing to Do
- A Latino in the US Academy: Wounds and Medals from the Battlefields
- Orlando, Florida, the Puerto Rican Frontier
Motivational
- My Road to National Syndication
- How I Reinvented Myself Into a Weekly Syndicated Columnist at age 60
- I Never Left the Classroom; and You Shouldn't Either
- They Are Counting on Your Ignorance. Read! Think! Disappoint Them!
- The Thin Line between What We Call Success and Failure
- Many People Wish they Could Sit at Your Desk. Be Grateful and Make the Best of that Opportunity
- A Toolbox for Student Success
Contemporary Caribbean and Latin America
- The Twenty Plagues of Contemporary Puerto Rico
- Recent Changes in US-Cuba Relations
- Puerto Rico Before-and-after Hurricane María
- Revolutionary Cuba: A History
- Sugar and Revolution: Cuba, 1952-2016
- Sixteen Threads in the Labyrinth of Cuban Culture
- Cuba: A History in Fifteen Photographs
- Cuba in the Twenty First Century
- Perplexing Puerto Rico
- A Historical Perspective on Prospects for a Post-Castro Cuba
- The Longest Ninety Miles: Cuban Migration to South Florida since 1959
- Puerto Rico's Political Status in Historical Perspective
- Puerto Rico in Forty Minutes
- Ten Keys to the Caribbean
Education / Pedagogy
- Reading Across the Curriculum
- The Seven Deadly Sins of the Modern University
- Twelve Keys to Successful Teaching / Learning
- We Are in It Together: Dialogue and Collaboration between Historians and History Teachers
- "C" Students, Children with ADHD, and the Class Clown: Why We Need them in Every Classroom
- Let's Start from Scratch: A Blueprint for a Twenty-First-Century Model School of Education
- We Need Poets More than Ever: The Critical Importance of the Arts and Humanities from Pre-K to College
- What If...?: Out-of-the-box Reflections on How to Improve Our Education System
- "I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand": Visual and Participatory Methods for Teaching and Learning
- Integrating Latin American and Caribbean History into the Curriculum
- Windows to the Past: Using Texts, Artifacts, and Captured Moments in the Classroom
- Why Did I Become a Historian?
History and Culture: Cuba, Puerto Rico
- Cast in Bronze and Chiseled out of Stone: The Story of the Caribbean as Told by Its Statues
- Cuba's History in Twenty-Five Artifacts
- Key to the New World: Early Colonial Cuba
- Three Crops that Transformed the Caribbean: Sugar, Tobacco, and Coffee
- Divergent Patterns of Political Culture in the Twentieth-Century Hispanic Caribbean
- In the Plantation's Own Image: Puerto Rico's First Protestant Congregations,1868-1898
- Ten Historiographical Keys to the Caribbean
- The American Mediterranean during the American Century
- Puerto Rico in the Whirlwind of 1898: Conflict, Continuity, and Change
- Life in a Male City: Women in Nineteenth-Century Havana
- Caudillos, Annexationism, and the Rivalry between Empires in the Dominican Republic, 1844-1878
- The Formation of Creole Cuba, 1525-1607
- Geography, Will It Absolve Cuba?
- Far Worse than Slaves: Emancipados in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
- History Meets Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean
- A History of the Caribbean in Fifteen Pictures
- Beyond La Niña, La Pinta, and La Santa María: The Mental Mapping and Invention of a New World