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Gloria Romero Roses Member since September, 2006
Principal
Nexus_Consulting, LLC
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Gloria Romero Roses, has been in Florida since 1979.
Gloria began her career in Real Estate starting with Community Association Management in 1988 with GDG Services then branching out into real estate development starting in 1996 culminating with the SOBE high-rise development scene as part of The Related Group of Florida's development team in the South of Fifth district. In 2001 Gloria struck out on her own as a freelance Project Management Consultant, her clients included The Related Group's ground breaking project CityPlace in West Palm Beach, WCI Communities' One Bal Harbour project, WSG's Canyon Ranch project and Bruce Eichner's project in Las Vegas, The Cosmopolitan. In 2005 Gloria accepted the challenge of returning to her real estate beginnings by launching the Office of Community and Employee Relations for the state's largest manager of Condominium and Homeowner's Associations, The Continental Group, Inc. After establishing the function of Employee Relations and transitioning to a reorganized Human Resources Department, she transitioned the office to focus on Communications and Community Relations. With over 250,000 residential units in their client portfolio and over 6,500 employees across the state of Florida, Gloria's focus was to promote the company's mission and values throughout the communities where the firm's employees lived and work. With functions, roles and work plan in process she transitioned to her successor in 2008. Through her firm, Nexus_Consulting, Gloria assists companies and non-profits striving to effectuate change by intersecting people and opportunity through engagement. Her practice takes form through leadership development, implementation of change processes and strategic communications.
As past President of ArtSpring, Inc. a non-profit arts-based organization that promotes self-growth and effective life skills through art-making for underserved and institutionalized women and girls throughout Florida and former member of the Community Advisory Board for the Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center Gloria is passionate about the issues of prevention, intervention as well as investment to reverse the trends of recidivism within our juvenile and adult justice system. As a founding member of a coalition formed in 2004 to shine a light on the issues of overcrowding in our public schools, Gloria led the collaborative work to identify and implement solutions for the short, medium and long term. The coalition's efforts were successful in soliciting and acquiring funding for over 6 projects in the NE Miami-Dade region to build new public schools or expand existing schools (including a precedent-setting lease improvement to a previously vacant K-Mart that opened in the Fall of 2006 housing the entire 6th grade class of Highland Oaks Middle School until relief schools came into place in 2008).
Gloria's affiliations include the Urban Land Institute and the Women's Fund of Miami-Dade. She is currently Vice Chair of the Workforce Housing Committee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. She is immediate past Chair of the FIU College of Business Dean's Alumni Circle, immediate past President of the Sky Lake-Highland Lakes Area Homeowners Association whose mission is to improve the quality of life for over 17,000 residents within its boundaries of unincorporated NE Miami Dade County. Gloria and her family are members of St. Mark Catholic Church and live in the town of SW Ranches, Broward County, FL.
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