EXECUTIVE COACH

Luz Canino-Baker is a proven business leader with experiences in the corporate and non-profit sectors. After a successful twenty-eight year banking career, Ms. Canino-Baker took her innovative leadership skills to the non-profit sector in February 2007. Ms. Canino-Baker spent the greater part of her career in banking at First National Bank of Chicago/Bank One; now JPMorgan Chase. Ms. Canino-Baker has learned that she thrives in chaos and welcomes opportunities that allow her to use her strong analytical and organizational abilities.

Ms. Canino-Baker served as the Managing Director of Programs and Marketing for the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement, (HACE), in Chicago. She is the Founder of the now national Mujeres De HACE women’s leadership program.

Ms. Canino-Baker has a passion for seeing everyone perform at his or her full potential. As a result, she started her own business in 2007, LNC Coaching, LLC. The core services include Executive/Life/Group/Retreat Coaching. She is certified in Myers Briggs, Insights Discovery, and Emotional Intelligence, and Influence self-assessment programs. She is a certified coach by International Coaching Federation. Her first book Designing Your Life Plan was published in the winter of 2013. She is also an author in Volume I of a series called Today’s Inspired Latina.

Ms. Canino-Baker is the founder and President of Latinas On The Plaza, a non-profit organization that helps girls and women of color by equipping Her, empowering Her and engaging Her to reach her full potential. We want her to be strong at work, at home, and in the communities she serves. Latinas On The Plaza offers cohort based programs, workshops, book clubs, retreats and mastermind groups as the vehicles to transform women of color into super achievers.

Ms. Canino-Baker holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from DePaul University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She was an adjunct professor at DePaul University, National-Louis University, Benedictine University, and Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. She serves as Emeritus board member of Harper College Educational Foundation, and as an advisory board member of Uhlich Children’s Advantage Network (UCAN).

Ms. Canino-Baker has achieved several awards including the Suburban Life Magazine’s Women of Distinction award, the Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador of the Year award from UCAN, the Chicago United’s Business Leaders of Color and one of Top 100 Under 50 leaders awarded by Diversity MBA Magazine and the International Woman of Influence Award by Aurora Regional Chamber of Commerce. She is a graduate of the Boardroom Bound® Boardology™ Institute and profiled in the group’s National Director-Candidate Database. Luz is married to Don Baker, who is the President of Stare Down The Lion Consulting. They live in Hinsdale, IL. She also loves being a grandmother of six.