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Carlos Gutierrez is a Cuban-born American business executive and former public official. His family fled Cuba when he was six, and he went on to rise through the Kellogg Company, where he became its youngest chief executive, then served as the 35th United States Secretary of Commerce from 2005 to 2009. In Sheer Will: Learning to Lead When There Is No Path (St. Martin's Press, 2026), he recounts his path to leadership without a college degree and his late diagnosis of ADHD.
Carlos Gutierrez is a Cuban-born American business executive and former public official. His family fled Cuba when he was six, and he went on to rise through the Kellogg Company, where he became its youngest chief executive, then served as the 35th United States Secretary of Commerce from 2005 to 2009. In Sheer Will: Learning to Lead When There Is No Path (St. Martin's Press, 2026), he recounts his path to leadership without a college degree and his late diagnosis of ADHD.