Analisa Leonor Balares
About Analisa Leonor Balares
Analisa Leonor Balares is the Founder of the Humansphere Foundation and Womensphere Interactive, and creator of platforms to empower diverse leaders, artists, educators, and innovators globally. In this role, she also leads the building of Global Institutes on Leadership, Capital, Earth, and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics). Analisa is a producer, innovator, artist, philanthropist, and humanitarian, dedicated to equality, empowering people, and creating more inclusive, more sustainable futures. For two decades, she has worked on leadership development, innovation, entrepreneurship, environmental conservation, peace-building, and advancing women & girls in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics). She has produced over 100 summits and programs in these fields. For her work, Analisa has been recognized as a UBS Global Visionary and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, honored as one of the 100 Most Influential Filipinas in America and one of the 100 Most Influential Filipinas in the World, and received Distinguished Leader Awards from UN Women New York, Society of Foreign Consuls NY, The State of New York, and WNBA. She is also a Madam CJ Walker Leadership Award honoree of the US National Minority Business Council. Analisa serves among the International Gender Champions, and is an Action Coalition Partner of UN Women's Generation Equality Campaign. She serves as a Commissioner of the Women's Refugee Commission; Honorary Member of Women Moving Millions; Development Committee Member of UN Women's Peace & Humanitarian Fund; and an Advisory Board Member of Music Beyond, Wearing Irish, and Infinity Capital. She was recently elected to serve as a Steering Council Member of the Pearson College Alumni Association, the first alumni association of the United World Colleges. Analisa has also served as a NASA Datanaut, supporting NASA's Open Innovation initiatives and the NASA International Space Apps Challenge, the world’s largest hackathon, and serves among community leaders in New York's space tech community. Analisa previously worked in investment banking at the Goldman Sachs High Technology Group and Morgan Stanley Energy & Power Group, and in product management, technology strategy, business development, brand management, and global marketing at Microsoft, Milestone Capital, and Broad Holdings/85 Broads (now Ellevate Network). She is an alumna of Harvard Business School, Mount Holyoke College, Lester Pearson United World College, and the New York Film Academy.