In recognition of her efforts to promote traditions within the community, Ms. Fernández received an award from the Mexican embassy in Washington, DC in 2023.
LUTHERVILLE, MD, August 22, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Mariana Fernández has been inducted into Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Ms. Fernández is the chief executive officer of Highland Insurance Group, a position she has held since 2022. In this role, she has been instrumental as a marketing specialist, in creating and promoting the company's mission, setting organizational goals, managing the executive leadership team and building key alliances with other organizations, making her agency a leader in her district that include several states on the East Coast. Additionally, she acts as the primary spokesperson for the company, oversees internal operations and ensures that targets and objectives are met. Ms. Fernández also actively attends industry conferences and conducts internal strategy sessions to identify and implement growth strategies. She firmly believes on collaboration over competition and that training is something that we do, not that we have done.
Ms. Fernández concurrently excels as an exclusive agent for Allstate. Before accepting this position, she served as an operations manager and marketing specialist at an Allstate agency from 2017 to 2022, and she initiated her tenure at the firm in 2014 in the role of sales manager and marketing specialist. During these years at Allstate she was awarded over 10 recognitions. Before joining Allstate, Ms. Fernández was a valued associate with Future Supply CA from 2012 to 2014, where she was the acting sales and marketing specialist.
A passion for journalism further defines Ms. Fernández's professional profile, and she has held distinct positions such as accounting and communications executive at El Impulso, the oldest newspaper in Venezuela, from 2010 to 2012. She was also a general producer for the daily magazine radio program En Contexto at Jazz 95.5FM from 2009 to 2010, the executive of advertisement during the publication realization at Miro Popic Editor CA in 2009 and a research assistant for Reporters Without Borders during the election cycle of 2008.
Ms. Fernández's educational background includes a 5 year bachelor's degree in social communication with a focus on journalism, public relations and marketing from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela, from which she graduated in 2010. She has also completed several vital training programs to advance her career, including the media communication program at the Carter Center, the Cambridge international consulting course of Harvard negotiation model, a course for marketing module at Procter and Gamble and the leadership program offered by Craig Wiggins Coaching.
A deep commitment to community service remains important to Ms. Fernández and is evident through her involvement in organizations such as the Maryland Tough – Baltimore Strong Alliance and her service as a district council member for Allstate Insurance's telematics department. She actively participates in resource fairs for Baltimore ONG's such as HOLA Baltimore, VIVE Group, Baltimore County Public Schools and Hispanic Churches. Ms. Fernández also supports children in Venezuela and contributes to St. Jude Hospital along with other global organizations focused on animal rescue and nature conservation.
In recognition of her efforts to promote traditions within the community, Ms. Fernández received an award from the Mexican embassy in Washington, DC in 2023. Additionally, she was humbled to have been featured in an interview titled "Highland Insurance Group Looking for Satisfied Customers" with the Latinos: The Country We Build magazine to discuss her vision for the Hispanic community and was feature as a Top Maryland Auto Producers Agencies by Maryland Auto Insurance Fund. Born in Venezuela, Ms. Fernández relocated to the United States in 2014 and remains deeply committed to empowering women and immigrants by sharing her story of overcoming adversity to achieve the American dream. Ms. Fernández's greatest desire is that her story will resonate with others facing similar challenges and inspire them to pursue their aspirations.
Outside of her professional life, Ms. Fernández finds balance by spending time with her son and her husband, who are everything to her and her why, exploring nature, traveling together and reading; most recently she wants to be closer to the word of God by reading the Bible. She is motivated to make both her team and her son proud while achieving personal and financial freedom, and she envisions leading a team that has a true sense of ownership in their company with both professional and personal growth. Looking toward the future, Ms. Fernández plans to support small businesses within the Latino community by helping them navigate company registration complexities and understand concepts such as return on investment, and she aims to become a respected figure within the Spanish-speaking community in insurance and pay it forward.
More important, she wants to praise God every day and never forget where she comes from, the education her parents gave her, and how her faith and hard work made her the woman she is today. She truly believes that kindness can change the world and that the greatest mistake is to do nothing, because you can only do little. Always do what you can, the best way possible.
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