Dalia Massiel Morillo: VP and EmberGlow Founder Championing Women in Leadership
Dalia Morillo has built her career around a defining question: How can organizations evolve while preparing people to thrive in what comes next? As Vice President, People Experience at Day One Agency and Founder of EmberGlow Leadership, she brings more than 15 years of experience connecting business strategy, organizational effectiveness, and workforce transformation. She believes sustainable performance depends on building the leadership and capabilities organizations need for what lies ahead.
Across industries, Morillo has partnered with senior leaders to navigate growth, evolve organizational structures, strengthen leadership pipelines, and develop workforce capabilities. These experiences reinforced her conviction that transformation requires more than strategic ambition: it requires understanding how decisions shape people, performance, and an organization's capacity to adapt.
At Day One Agency, she helps shape People strategy in a creative environment, connecting business priorities with leadership effectiveness, talent development, and employee experience. Her vision for the People function extends beyond traditional HR practices toward anticipating workforce needs, informing business decisions, and enabling lasting organizational impact.
As artificial intelligence changes how work gets done, Morillo advocates for rethinking how leaders create value and how human capabilities evolve alongside technology. To her, meaningful innovation strengthens organizational performance without losing sight of human potential.
That philosophy also informs EmberGlow Leadership, the company she founded to make leadership development and future-focused learning more accessible. Drawing on executive experience and emerging workforce insights, she helps professionals, entrepreneurs, and organizations navigate complexity, strengthen influence, and prepare for changing expectations.
Morillo holds a master's degree from New York University in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development. She has been recognized as a 2026 Influential Woman and nominated for the 2026 Women of Inspiration recognition.
She is particularly committed to advancing women in leadership. Challenging the belief that women must feel fully prepared before pursuing greater responsibility, she encourages them to recognize their strengths, trust their perspectives, and lead with conviction. As she says, “Confidence is not something you wait for, it is something you build by taking the next step and learning along the way.”
Morillo credits curiosity, resilience, and a genuine commitment to others' growth for her success. She measures impact not simply by titles or achievements, but by leaders developed, opportunities created, and meaningful contributions to organizations and communities.
