Cecilia Amaro
Cecilia Amaro is a seasoned aerospace logistics and program support professional whose 35-year career with Boeing has been built on adaptability, integrity, and a deep commitment to mission readiness. Beginning as a summer college hire at McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach, California, Cecilia steadily advanced through increasingly complex logistics, procurement, and integrated support roles across major military aircraft programs including the F-15, C-17, Chinook F Model, V-22 Osprey, and AH-6 Little Bird helicopter programs. Throughout her career, she has coordinated global supply chain operations, integrated cross-functional teams, and supported international military customers to ensure aircraft and mission readiness under demanding conditions.
Over the decades, Cecilia earned a reputation as a dependable and solutions-oriented leader in aerospace logistics and sustainment. Her work has included overseeing repair management deployments, supporting military maintainers in the field, managing integrated logistics support planning, and leading risk management initiatives for classified defense programs. She received recognition from Army Program Management leadership for her support of the Chinook F Model fielding effort overseas and was honored internally with Boeing’s Atlas Award for outstanding performance. Known for her calm leadership style and collaborative mindset, Cecilia has consistently focused on mentoring others, transferring knowledge to younger professionals, and helping teams navigate complex operational challenges with clarity and resilience.
In addition to her aerospace career, Cecilia is the founder of Rise Sovereign Soul LLC, where she serves as a life transition support and well-being specialist. Inspired by her own personal transformation — including a 70-pound wellness journey grounded in self-awareness, mindfulness, and nervous system healing — she now helps others navigate life transitions with greater calm, clarity, and self-compassion. Through wellness guidance, mindfulness practices, and holistic self-care principles, Cecilia encourages people to reconnect with themselves and reduce the pressures of constant self-management. She is also currently writing her first book, Reading Myself Like a Book, a reflective exploration of human patterns, awareness, and personal transformation designed to help others better understand themselves and their own healing journeys.
• Well-Being Specialist Certification
• Six Sigma Green Belt
• Colorado Technical University- Ph.D.
• Colorado Technical University- Master's
• Wilmington University- B.S.
• AuspiciumLtd
• Recognition by Army Program Management Office Lieutenant Colonel for Fielding Three Brigades Overseas
• Boeing Atlas Award
• Five Years of Stellar Performance Reviews from Navy Customer
• Project Management Institute
What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to staying reliable, adaptable, and resilient through every stage of my career, while always leading with integrity and a commitment to continuous learning. I also believe in mentoring others, collaborating across teams, and focusing on practical solutions rather than simply identifying problems.
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I've received is probably to focus on reliability, having integrity in the workplace, being adaptable and flexible, and always being focused on the solution. Throughout our career in the aerospace industry, there's a lot of regulation and government policies and regulations, but we always have to be flexible and adaptable, and especially now with AI, we need to be able to adapt and utilize the tools available. Instead of just bringing the problem, we should bring solutions.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
My advice would be to be reliable, have integrity, be adaptable, and focus on solutions instead of just bringing problems. I recommend utilizing the tools that are available, like Excel to track all the different projects, because people are being very inundated with lots and lots of tasks, so organization is key. I also advise not underestimating your ability to learn difficult things you may not be so familiar with. And definitely pursue continuous learning. I'm actually going to start taking some AI training myself, even though I thought I wasn't going to be doing any more training because I've been in school my whole life. But continuous learning is essential.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I think the biggest challenge is knowledge transfer for developing new hires, especially because we're having a lot of people with my tenure retire. The big challenge is helping new hires manage stress, burnout, information overload, and the complexity of our field. But I believe we have the tools with AI and other tool sets to help address these challenging areas. We shouldn't be afraid of these tools, but use them accordingly to innovate and capitalize where we can for new hires entering the technical environment that we're navigating today in aerospace. Technology and knowledge transfer for new hires is important, and we should utilize the tools within the limits we're allowed to create an adaptive environment.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I think gratitude, love, and kindness is the way to try to heal the world. I've always tried to help others and mentor others in all areas of my work. Even though being human can be a challenge and we struggle with burnout and stress, I believe in being resilient and not giving up on life. My mission is to help other people with self-awareness and finding the loops we suffer from sometimes in life.