Bold strategy. Rooted practice.
With corazón.
Welcome to Con Ganas Education, LLC, your partner for educational excellence. We offer services designed to shift systems, empower leaders, and center communities. Whether you’re seeking equity audits, powerful trainings, or a keynote that moves hearts — we lead with purpose, not performativity. Every offering is grounded in culture, strategy, and real change.
Profile
Con Ganas Education, LLC specializes in delivering equity-centered consulting and education services that support multilingual learners and leaders of color. Dr. Jen leads with a purpose-driven approach, blending strategy with heart to promote transformation and growth. Our mission is to provide bold and culturally rooted training, coaching, and speaking services to empower individuals and communities.
About Dr. Jen:
Dr. Jen Hernandez is a bilingual educator, equity strategist, and former district leader with over 20 years of experience serving multilingual students and their families. A first-generation Latina and daughter of immigrants, she brings a deep understanding of what it means to navigate and lead in multiple worlds. As the founder of Con Ganas Education, LLC, she partners with schools, districts, and organizations to build culturally sustaining systems rooted in language, belonging, and liberation. Her work has led to transformative results—including increasing WIDA exit rates by 2500% and growing family engagement events from 15 to over 300 attendees. Dr. Jen is also the host of Dr. Jen Flips the System, a podcast uplifting stories of resistance, reimagination, and radical love in education.
Her dissertation, Con Ganas, explores the conditions necessary to attain and retain leaders of color in education. This research deeply informs her work with human resources teams and leadership development, particularly in designing professional learning and workplace systems that foster belonging, mentorship, and culturally sustaining pathways to leadership.
Our Services
Consulting/ Program Audits
We help schools, districts, and organizations uncover systemic gaps and create culturally sustaining solutions. Our audits are data-informed and community-centered, with a focus on multilingual education, equity strategy, and inclusive program design. You’ll walk away with clear action steps, aligned supports, and long-term vision rooted in justice.
Training/ Professional Development
Dynamic, hands-on sessions that blend real-world experience with research-based practices. We offer custom PD on topics like multilingual learner equity, inclusive leadership, community engagement, and anti-racist systems change. Trainings are grounded in storytelling, joy, and practical tools that shift mindsets and practice.
Coaching/ Mentorship
We walk alongside leaders of color, multilingual educators, and equity-focused changemakers—helping them navigate power, lead with authenticity, and sustain their purpose. Our coaching model honors lived experience, affirms cultural identity, and builds collective capacity. It’s mentorship with corazón.
Speaking/ Keynote
Dr. Jen brings fire, vulnerability, and vision to the mic. Her talks center on leadership of color, educational justice, and the lived realities of those often left out of decision-making. Each keynote is crafted to ignite reflection, move hearts, and call communities into action. Available for conferences, school districts, universities, and beyond.
Podcast
🎙️ Dr. Jen Flips the System
An unapologetic video podcast for educators, leaders, and everyday disruptors ready to reimagine justice in schools and beyond.
Join Dr. Jen Hernandez — first-gen Latina leader, equity strategist, and jaguar at heart — as she breaks down the systems we’re surviving and the stories that flip them on their head.
Watch new episodes on YouTube. Bold strategy. Rooted practice. With corazón.
Get in touch
Please contact me, to learn more about how I can partner with you.
Contact Me
(971) 500-4410
