Carlos Andrés Gómez

Carlos Andrés Gómez is an International Book Award-winning author, keynote speaker, poet, and care and community strategist with more than two decades of experience.

He has delivered keynotes and done engagements at more than 1,500 colleges, independent schools, law firms, and companies in 47 U.S. states and 28 countries across six continents, collaborated with John Legend on a project to counteract bullying, co-starred in the Spike Lee movie “Inside Man” with Denzel Washington, and drew a standing ovation at the Obama White House.

A former social worker and public school teacher, Carlos is a passionate advocate for healthy masculinity and making organizations and companies more productive, healthy, and care and community-centered. He is also the author of the poetry collection “Fractures” (selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the Felix Pollak Prize) and the memoir “Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood” (Penguin Random House, 2012). A star of HBO’s “Def Poetry Jam,” you may recognize Carlos from his viral poems, “What Latino Looks Like,” “Where are you really from?” and others, which have garnered more than 12 million views online. Carlos has been tapped to keynote, act as a brand spokesperson, create original commissioned poems, and facilitate trainings for several major brands and organizations, including Microsoft, Pepsi, Unilever, McDonald’s, General Mills, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Freddie Mac, Expo 2020 Dubai, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Macy’s, and many others.

A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and alum of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, Carlos was named 2021 Georgia Author of the Year by the Georgia Writers Association, Artist of the Year at the 2009 Promoting Outstanding Writers Awards, and a 2024 NACE Speaker of the Year nominee. He is a proud Colombian American and father of two.

Keynotes available:

Reimagining Modern Manhood

Care & Community: At the Intersection of Wellness & Belonging

Recharge! How to Motivate your Team & Cultivate Compelling Leadership