Reinvention is
my résumé.
Pablo Segarra speaks on how trademarks, ownership, and high-pressure career pivots shape business value, long-term leverage, and professional resilience.
No text-heavy decks — just the questions that decide everything: who controls the value, who carries the risk, and how to stay steady when the unexpected hits.

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Son of a Vietnam-vet jazz musician and a mother who was the first Latina to serve as Deputy Mayor of NYC. Twelve years in the NYPD — balancing law school at night while still in uniform. He built a travel venture to Travel + Leisure's Top 50, and walked away when it stopped being true.
Pablo speaks to rooms where cultural identity, economic ownership, and operational high stakes collide.
Signature Talks
Formats: Keynotes • Workshops • Panels • Moderated conversations
Talk 01 — Signature Keynote
Own what
defines you.
Culture, identity, and the cost of not owning your name.
Best for: Corporate ERGs, corporate leadership, and founders.
Latinos built Salsa, shaped hip-hop, and created the most-streamed genre on the planet. Much of that value accrued somewhere else. This talk is not a celebration — it is an economic analysis. Pablo uses intellectual property as the framework, but the real conversation is about the structural gap between what our community builds and what we own: what it costs when ownership is absent, why first-generation households were never taught to prioritize it, and what it looks like to change that — for yourself and for what you pass down.
Audience leaves with
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Ownership understood as an economic force, not just a legal concept.
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Clarity on where value leaks — in creative work, business, and contracts already signed.
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A framework for what they own, what they've given away, and what the next generation inherits.


Talk 02 — Management & Leadership Keynote
Beyond fear.
Navigating disruption and driving clarity in high-stakes environments.
Best for: Client-facing professionals, claims teams, managers, and leaders expected to stay steady when clients, teams, or organizations face the unexpected.
Pablo has had to find clarity under pressure more than once. Twelve years policing New York City — patrolling its toughest hours by day, sitting in law school at night, still in uniform. A serious injury that ended one version of his life and forced him to build another. Walking away from a travel company he'd grown into Travel + Leisure's Top 50 the moment it stopped being true — then rebuilding a new life as an attorney and expat in the Caribbean. This keynote turns those transitions into a working model of how fear actually behaves in a crisis: where it distorts judgment, what steadies it, and how to act before you feel ready. The throughline is simple — your own resilience is inseparable from your responsibility to steady the people who look to you when everything is uncertain.
Audience leaves with
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A clearer understanding of how fear affects decision-making under pressure.
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Practical language for moving clients and teams from confusion to confidence.
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A simple framework for the unexpected: build systems, lead with clarity, keep moving.
Logistics and Track Record
Formats available
Selected engagements and experience include:
- Panel speaker, workshop host, and podcast guest at VidCon
- Keynote speaker for Sedgwick, connecting culture, leadership, and ownership
- NYSBA CLE trainer educating 400+ attorneys on AI, intellectual property, and blockchain
- Speaker at New York Law School on cryptocurrency and decentralization
- 10+ international appearances, including SOMOS NY/PR, NFT NYC, and Hola Metaverso
- Guest lecturer at Miami Ad School Punta Cana and Universidad APEC
- Intellectual property attorney admitted to the New York Bar
Media
VidCon
SOMOS NY/PR
Forbes
NYLFF
REMEZCLA
NY 1
Travel & Leisure
Academia
Guest lecturer — Miami Ad School, New York Law School, APEC, PUCMM.
Legal continuing ed
NYSBA CLE trainer — educated 400+ attorneys on AI, IP & blockchain.