Alicia Arenas

Alicia is the founder and CEO of Sanera, The People Development Company. Prior to launching to Sanera in 2008, Alicia was an accomplished Human Resources leader in corporate America working in Fortune 500 companies such as USF&G, Prudential and Nationwide Insurance. While there and in other companies, Alicia led Human Resources teams, mentored leaders, developed strategic operational plans and oversaw training and development at an enterprise level. Her 17 years of Human Resources and organizational development experience have helped both small and large companies reach their strategic objectives.

She is also an entrepreneur at heart. Her first taste of business ownership came at the age of seven when she made Christmas ornaments in her mother’s kitchen and sold them in her neighborhood (quite successfully she would add). Additional experience in sales and business ownership along with her corporate career makes her a power house resource for business leaders and small business owners.

Alicia has built a reputation around her highly creative, interactive and transformative training programs. She specializes in business development, branding, leadership, communication and sales. In 2010 she launched Sanera Camp, a six week business building “boot camp” for small business owners and sales teams.

Alicia is a sought-after subject matter expert and has been a featured guest on several business radio programs as well as a requested source for print media. She has been featured in the San Antonio Business Journal, San Antonio Woman and was selected as one of San Antonio’s top 10 blogs by WOAI. Alicia was also selected as one of five bloggers from around the nation to audit the Disney Institute’s curriculum and provide feedback to program leaders.

The Fun Stuff

Alright. So that was the “official” bio. Now let’s have some fun! I am full of a comprehensive array of useless information, but hopefully  some of it will be entertaining.

Things I Like

1. My Hubbie. Scratch that – I love him!

2. My Puppy. She’s not a puppy, she’s actually 13. But we still call her “Pups.” Here’s a link to one of her You Tube videos.

3. Nice People.

4. Creating contemporary art.

5. Singing & writing music I’ve been singing since I was two years old and love to write music. My dream? That someone famous will sing one of the songs I’ve written and take it to #1.

Things I Don’t Like

1. Mean people.

2. Clowns. They are not cute and they are not funny. They are evil and should be destroyed.

3. Green food, except lettuce, broccoli, Granny Smith apples and pickles.

4. Acid reflux (I can’t eat pickles).

5. Dishonest people.

Things You Really Don’t Need to Know About Me

1. I refuse to eat the last bite of a hot dog. If you want to know why, just Tweet me. I promise to tell you the answer.

2. The only way I can put on mascara is if I have my mouth open. I’ve tried to do it with my mouth closed and it just doesn’t work.

3. I have a dent in my nose. You are reading the blog of quite possibly, the most uncoordinated person on the planet.  Case in point, the dent in my nose. In sixth grade, always the last to be chosen for either softball team, I was strategically placed in the outfield – waaaaay out in the outfield. I was actually pretty relieved because no one ever hit the ball that far…until that day. The pitch was thrown and unfortunately, the ball was smacked hard. It flew in my direction and I had no choice but to try and catch it. So I put up my mitt. The ball ricocheted off the top of my glove and slammed into my nose. In one motion, my glasses flew apart, I was falling down and blood…well there was lots of blood. That’s how I got the dent in my nose.