Dr. Marisol Capellan, Ed.D., is a Dominican-American author, leadership scholar, educator, and public speaker whose work explores leadership, human responsibility, power, personal transformation, and organizational life.

Born in Dominican Republic, and based in Miami, Florida, Dr. Capellan brings a cross-cultural perspective to her writing, connecting scholarship, lived experience, and the complexities of leadership across communities and institutions.

She is the author of Leadership Is a Responsibility (2023), a nonfiction work that challenges conventional understandings of leadership and invites readers to reconsider the relationship between authority, influence, accountability, and the responsibility individuals have toward others.

Dr. Capellan earned her Doctor of Education in Higher Education Leadership from the University of Miami, where she previously served as a lecturer in management and organizational behavior and Associate Director of the Master of Science in Leadership program. She is the founder of The Capellan Institute, an organization dedicated to leadership education, executive development, and organizational effectiveness.

Her intellectual and literary interests span responsible authority, women’s leadership, organizational justice, identity, self-leadership, and the evolving relationship between human judgment and technology.

Working across English- and Spanish-language audiences, Dr. Capellan is developing a body of nonfiction writing intended to engage readers throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and beyond. Her forthcoming literary projects explore women’s personal and professional development, conscious transformation, leadership, and the power of questioning inherited expectations.

At the center of her work is a belief that meaningful transformation begins when individuals examine what they have been taught, recognize their capacity to exercise agency, and accept responsibility for the influence they have on their own lives and the lives of others.

Through her writing, scholarship, and educational initiatives, Dr. Capellan seeks to contribute to an international conversation about leadership, human dignity, responsibility, and the possibilities of personal and collective transformation.

Dr. Marisol Capellan, Ed.D., is an award-winning author, leadership scholar, and executive educator. Her book, Leadership Is a Responsibility, received the 2023 International Book Awards Winner distinction in the Women’s Issues / Women’s Studies category, awarded by American Book Fest.