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Annabel Quintero      

CEO of The Runa Group & Author of "Step Step Jump - Transforming Trauma to Triumph from the 46th Floor"

Annabel Quintero was born and raised in Seattle to Ecuadorian parents. She is a dancer of life, a bgirl (break dancer) and is part of the Seattle Hip Hop community where she co-created one of the first all female Hip Hop events in the 1990's called Invasion of the Bgirls and teaches a dance history class called Mambo 2 Hip Hop.

She holds a certification as a Holistic Health Coach and graduated from the University of Washington in 1997 with her bachelors in Political Science and in 2017 a Master's degree in Education Policy and Organizational leadership.

Her best-selling book, "Step Step Jump", is a story of hope dedicated to helping others transform trauma into triumph. Annabel’s life was irrevocably altered on September 11, 2001 when she narrowly escaped from the 46th floor of the One World Trade Center.

As the founder of The Runa Group, she is devoted to helping leaders understand their story and how they can connect with their audience & teams to align their life journey to their project or business.

Her executive leadership coaching not only trains teams on how to improve their messaging, but they build confidence while being courageously vulnerable, they become engaging keynote speakers and up level their elevator pitch by sharing how they are positively impacting lives around the world.

Quintero has ran for office in 2018 for our 34th district State Senate seat, she has coached over 2,500 leaders in personal development including Marie Forleo, Sage Levine and Elizabeth Yarnell to name a few. She is a proud mother of two, a storyteller and uses her cultural wisdom as a spiritual practice to promote everyone's evolutionary process and contribute to our collective wellness.

Speech Topics

Change, Intuition and the Power of Now

How can you get comfortable with change you didn't choose?

  • Life lessons keep showing us that what we truly control are our emotions and how we respond to life.
  • Learn to make your growth a priority and jump into your cultural blind spots
  • How do you practice self-reflection until it becomes a habit?

This session shares how my office on the 46th floor of the One World Trade Center on September 11th, changed my life, transformed my definition of success and gave me an in depth look at the sacredness of all life on earth.

When we experience traumatic experiences like war, bodily violations and unheard of violence, we transform what meaningless moments into grateful moments of life. We find all humans have so much in common, that we want the same things and that our life goals are only possible by prioritizing peace.

Mambo 2 Hip Hop

Let me tell you who we are, and a global history class will commence.

The cultural immersive experience of our music and dance teaches everyone that:

  • How Colonialism shaped the Latino-Hispanic demographic
  • How the outlaw of the Drum and Dancing impacted our culture
  • Why Hip Hop is a unifying force despite it being created by the forgotten children of the Urban Ghettos

This session shares the Afro-Indigenous-Latino experience from the Americas, and the audience will learn how colonialism, the drum and music impacted the Americas and the world.

Learn how the socio-economic isolation negatively impacted Black and Latinos, and made them the cultural architects of Hip Hop culture and music, now celebrating 50 years in 2023.

Why Storytelling is a Spiritual Practice

What is ancient, belongs to every culture and is Indigenous to Mother Earth?

This session explains how Storytelling is more then just techniques, more than a way to sell and has been around since time immemorial.

Learn how storytelling helps people heal and how the lessons of life can be carried on generation to generation by simply sharing a moment in time.

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