Entrepreneur, writer, mentor and philanthropist, Elsie Y. Jiménez Galarza is a Human Resources and Administration consultant. She offers her consulting services in Human Resources, development, and strategy to small and medium-sized, emerging, and established companies. In addition, she offers mentoring to people interested in making the transition from employees to entrepreneurs or consultants. As an entrepreneur, she firmly believes in the leading role that small and medium-sized companies have in the economy of our country. Her articles on labor legislation and human resources in small businesses have been published in regional and national newspapers, and in magazines of business organizations. For more than 10 years, she was an active member and member of the board of directors of the Association for Small and Medium-sized Businesses. Her mission as an entrepreneur and educator is to spread the message of the opportunity of entrepreneurship and self-management as a real alternative to life, which is defined by the passion, commitment, and talents of the individual. She has 25 years of experience in the Human Resources profession, 17 of them working with entrepreneurs and business owners. She also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with a Concentration in Management and a Master's Degree in Business Administration, both from the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. She has been a professor and lecturer on entrepreneurship and human resources at several educational institutions in Puerto Rico.