Dr. Cristina Rosario DiPietropolo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Leader Essentials Group, an executive consulting firm specializing in strategy execution and leadership development.Cristina has over twenty-five years of experience across multiple industries, giving her the unique ability to share her knowledge in various business domains. In addition, she has over thirteen years of teaching experience as a professor of management and is skilled in the areas of organizational behavior, international management, leadership, entrepreneurship, strategic planning, human resource management, change management, and digital marketing. Finally, she is also an academic researcher whose research focuses on interviewer bias, either for or against military veterans, by U.S. hiring managers. Her research measures conscious, social, and unconscious (implicit) bias in the selection process for this important segment of the population.