Power · Purpose · Planet

Power · Purpose · Planet

Dame Doria (DC)
Cordova

For nearly five decades, quietly, then not so quietly, rewriting what it means to build a business, lead a movement, and change a world.

CEO, Excellerated Business Schools® & Money & You® Global Business Developer · Sustainability Entrepreneur
Ambassador of New Education · Author · Philanthropist

The world's longest-running entrepreneurial training

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The Story

The architecture of a movement

She does not fit neatly into the categories the modern age invented for people like her — not purely an entrepreneur, not merely a philanthropist, not simply an educator, though she is, with breathtaking conviction, all three. If you have ever been touched by the financial-literacy revolution that swept the globe in the late twentieth century, there is a very good chance her fingerprints are on it.

Long before conscious capitalism became a talking point, Dame Doria was building its infrastructure. She owns Excellerated Business School® for Entrepreneurs, Money & You®, and a constellation of programs that together form one of the most quietly influential global educational platforms of the modern era. Since 1979, more than 250,000 graduates from over 99+ countries have passed through its doors — physical and virtual — across the Asia Pacific, the Americas, and, increasingly, the Middle East.

What she teaches is not the standard gospel of quarterly earnings. The animating principle of every program is the win/win/win — a framework that insists, with the quiet radicalism of someone who actually believes it, that commerce and conscience are not mutually exclusive. Graduates will tell you, often with a certain reverence, that the experience did not merely sharpen their strategies. It changed the questions they asked.

The Question That Guides Her

“How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone?”

R. Buckminster Fuller · Excellerated Instructor

The Legacy

The architecture of a movement

A pioneer among pioneers. In the late 1970s a small cohort led by Marshall Thurber and Bobbi DePorter invented the entrepreneurial, experiential, transformational training industry from whole cloth. Among them, Doria Cordova was the only Latin woman. She inherited the work — formally, definitively — on July 8, 1985.

The only female leader standing. She is the only woman in her industry to have grown a global organization across nearly five decades, sustained it through licensing rather than venture capital, and used that independence to expand into renewable energy and humanitarian work. No Series A. No pivot. She built something with the slow, compounding logic of a forest.

Inside the AGI frontier. Most recently she was invited to mentor in IMAGINE Global, part of the largest independent coalition of AI scientists beyond Big Tech. That a community advancing AGI would reach for a woman whose expertise is in consciousness and human transformation says something about what its builders know they are missing.

The Kiyosaki years. With Robert and Kim Kiyosaki she opened the training industry in Australia, New Zealand, then Singapore, and across Asia Pacific. Robert has credited the philosophy forged in those years to Rich Dad Poor Dad — one of the bestselling personal-finance books in history. Tony Robbins and Jack Canfield are among the graduates.

Clean energy & green law. As Ambassador for Solar Valley China — the creation of Right Livelihood laureate Huang Ming, architect of the first green law passed in China — she serves as Visiting Professor at the International Micro-emission University, working to persuade nations toward equitable energy distribution.

The connector. By the testimony of everyone who meets her, Doria is a connector of rare, almost supernatural instinct — she sees the relationship that should exist before either party recognizes it. That gift has made her the sought-after center of a global entrepreneurial web spanning cultures, languages, and continents.

Honors & Title

A distinction centuries in the making

NOV 2010

Invested as Dame of Honor

Knighted by the Sovereign Order of the Orthodox Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem — the oldest humanitarian order in the world, holding three seats at the United Nations.

JAN 2013

Elevated to Dame Commander of Grace

A recognition of sustained humanitarian contribution within the Order, later followed by appointment as Chancellor of the California Priory in 2018.

DEC 2016

Honorary Doctorate, Wealth Wellness

Ph.D. (Hon.) with a specialization in Transformational Leadership from the Indian Virtual University for Peace & Education — registered under the United Nations.

ONGOING

Lifetime Achievement, The Los Angeles Tribune

Honored for a body of work spanning education, conscious business, renewable energy, and global humanitarian leadership.

The Published Record

Principles that power success

The flagship volume distills the framework that has powered the work for nearly five decades — Leverage, Precession, and Excellerated Learning. Edited by Marjah Simon with a foreword by Sharon Lechter, it reached #1,352 of 20 million books on Amazon.

Money & You® Trilogy, Vol. 1: Principles That Power Success

Amazon Bestseller

Contributor — Think & Grow Rich for Women

Anthology

Author — Money-Making Systems

Systems Manual

Author — Money-Making Systems

Systems Manual

Access to Cash

It's Not What You Think It Is

Excellerated Business Success Model

Free e-book from Doria

Notable Graduates

Books by Money & You® alumni

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

In the Press

A global media presence

“Spaceship Earth is really her home. The rest of us are just catching up.”

Doria's reach extends into global media as Global Business Developer for The Los Angeles Tribune, and into film as Executive Producer and cast member of The Pillars of Power. She has been interviewed in virtually every media format the world has produced, and hosted the Money & You Radio Show.

She is a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council and the Southern California Association of Transformational Leaders.

L.A. Tribune — Leadership Edition

Cover feature: Architect of Conscious Wealth

Top Talent Magazine

Cover — "Meet Doria Cordova"

LiT Magazine

Issue 1 cover feature

Ageless Magazine

Badass Women 40–90

VC Magazine

Featured article · 2025

Business Innovators

9 Powerful Women cover

The New Psychology of Winning Tour

with Denis Waitley & Brian Tracy

Think & Grow Rich

with Canfield, Vitale & Harrington

The Happy Neighborhood Project

Happiness guest speaker

LiT Official Launch

Featured speaker

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Given Freely

Fridays with Doria & Friends

When the pandemic dismantled the world's gathering places, Doria did what she has always done: she improvised with generosity. What began as online programs to support her global network became a permanent platform of expert teachings on entrepreneurship, transformation, and wealth creation — available to anyone, at no cost, at any time.

In an age when expertise has become a monetized commodity, she simply gives it away.

Purpose

The Doria Cordova Foundation

Her stated purpose — to uplift humanity's consciousness through conscious business — is not a motivational slogan but a precise operational description of everything she does. The Foundation is the institutional home of that work, supporting non-profits and humanitarian organizations across the globe, with a focus on eradicating poverty and hunger.

She never had children of her own. She is, instead, godmother to many across continents and supports several orphanages. Her dream, stated literally: that no child anywhere on earth should go to sleep hungry.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Conversations

Real discussions, recorded and live, that go deeper than surface-level strategy.

Affiliations

A worldwide web of work

Partners

Partners & Alliances:

Connect

From scarcity to sufficiency

She divides her time between San Diego and Maui, but the world is her office. Reach out to collaborate, to bring the work to your region, or simply to begin the conversation.

DAME DORIA (DC) CORDOVA, Ph.D. (Hon.)

Uplifting humanity's consciousness through conscious business.

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