Pegine brings a depth of leadership development insights and systems to global organizations for their high value and high-potential leaders. Helping leaders be more confident, influential and inspiring to their diverse workforce and clientele.Specializing in engaging, developing diverse talent. Women leaders, Hispanics leaders and multicultural leaders.

✯ Team Pegine Inc., organizes role playing and situation training exercises that provide live practice of leadership skills used in a diverse world. Helping leaders be effective and avoid alienating, and losing valuable, strategic relationships.

✯ Coach to senior leaders, entrepreneurs and politicians providing individualized role playing situational exercises to increase their skills of influence, persuasion, presentation and engagement among diverse groups.

✯ Entertaining, stimulating, interactive leadership keynote speeches, keynote presentations, provide hands on interactive tactics for women (and men) to lead and influence action.

✯ Her story of overcoming the odds inspires thousands. Pegine overcame a troubled background of chaos including being a Bronx gang member with a heroin addict sister and alcoholic father to transforming her life becoming an award winning leader closing million dollar deals, being in the media and organizing a 10,000 person high profile event for the White House.

✯ Global clients include: General Motors Corporation, Colgate Palmolive, Traveler's Insurance, HSBC, direct sales companies such as Princess House, Silpada, and Amway and agencies such as the Department of Defense.

✯ One of 8 women, and the only Latina, among 58 inductees into the Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame including Tony Robbins and Jack Canfield.

✯ Named #3 among the 50 Fastest Growing Privately Held companies in North Florida,

✯ TPI earned (the rarely given) EXCEPTIONAL CPARS rating by the DOD for contracts over one million dollars.

Female Success Speaker Pegine is quoted by The Wall Street Journal, HR Magazine, Washington Post, NY Times, and BusinessWeek.com,  as well as NPR Fresh Air, CNN and Univision affiliates. She was featured in Speaker Magazine, Latina Magazine, Convention Magazine, and Advantage Business Magazine. She presented at the Pentagon, keynoted with two US Presidents, two Secretaries of State, and authors John Maxwell and Suze Orman among others. She speaks to female leaders in direct sales, in business and in corporate about success leadership and prosperity in a diverse world.

She is one of 8 women and the only Latina among 58 inductees into the Motivational Speakers Hall of Fame. Zig Ziglar, Anthony Robbins and Dr Wayne Dyer are among inductees. New York Newsday calls business woman Pegine "a walking one-woman antidote to workplace cynicism." In 2012 Pegine was the leadership spokesperson for Clorox Latino. Her company, Team Pegine Inc., was named #3 of the 2013 50 Fastest Growing Privately Held companies in North Florida. She was named the Small Business Entrepreneur of the Year in North Florida and for the Minority Development Week Entrepreneur of the Year for Florida. She's won numerous awards for her work and volunteerism on behalf of women, the military and the Hispanic community.

One of the schools Pegine graduated from is the prestigious school of Hard Knocks. As a teen she was a member of Bronx girls gang and was called "La Loca" because of her courage to talk out of tough situations with her engaging, strong personality. She was kicked out of her first high school and at seventeen decided to change her life. She went to Spain on her own where she opened and sold two businesses at a profit in Spain.

Pegine coaches female politicians, women interested in being on corporate boards and those seeking over a million dollars in investment money. Pegine (Peg-een) Echevarria, MSW, CSP is CEO of Team Pegine Inc. (TPI) a multimillion dollar business TPI works with government and corporate clients to engage, train and market to women diverse communities worldwide.

TPI works with the all branches of the military, NASA, Rockwell Collins, Northrup Grumman, Newell Rubbermaid, Silpada, Amway and Colgate Palmolive.

TPI produces women's leadership events using role players for active learning. Team Pegine Inc. (www.TeamPegine.com) received the rarely given CPARS rating of exceptional by the Department of Defense. CPARS (contract performance assessment reporting system) rating are given for contracts over one million dollars.

Author of 'Sometimes You Need to Kick Your Own Butt' named by SHRM as one of the top ten books for women, 'Bragging Rights: Transform Your Team in 21 Days' and 'I've Got the Power To Lead & Think Big' The Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) named her one of 100 Global Thought Leaders on Diversity and Inclusion. Pegine was president of a direct selling company, national sales manager & director of operations in manufacturing. She holds a Masters in Social Work / Group and Organizational Development from Adelphi University, graduated from Hunter College and received a Certificado de Extranjeros de Universidad de Madrid.

Pegine is on the board of the National Speakers Association and represents the association on the Global Federation of Speakers. She is one of 712 Certified Speaking Professional's worldwide which is awarded after a rigorous audit for expertise, eloquence, enterprise and ethics. She is founder of the national not for profit Success4Vets. The organization promotes, trains, and supports women military leaders in transition in order to: (1) facilitate job placement, career development and leadership development of female veterans (Officers and NCOs) (2) acknowledgement, appreciation of female US military veterans (3) mentorship and networking opportunities for female US military veterans. Both of Pegine's children serve in the military. Pegine is celebrating 30 years of marriage.