Community organizer, trainer, coach, and strategist passionate about unlocking potential and moving leaders from stuck to purposeful action. Rooted in 20 years of movement building and organizing experience, driven by purpose—Jose Luis builds bridges, inspires action, and reimagines what’s possible.
Let’s Get Unstuck.
Too many leaders, teams, and communities are stuck. They are caught between vision and action, passion and progress, and dreams and practicality. Jose Luis specializes in helping people break through that stuck place. With decades of experience organizing movements, training leaders, and launching campaigns that shift culture and policy, he knows how to turn inertia into impact.
Through coaching, storytelling, and strategic guidance, Jose Luis equips change makers to rediscover their momentum, clarify their mission, and lead boldly through uncertainty.
If you're ready to move forward with purpose, Jose Luis is prepared to walk alongside you and your team.
Ways to Collaborate
Leadership Coaching
& Capacity Building
When leaders feel stuck or teams lose direction, progress stalls. JLM helps you regain clarity, reconnect to purpose, and move forward with confidence.
Through tailored coaching and immersive training, you’ll uncover what’s holding you back, strengthen alignment, and take bold, strategic action toward lasting impact.
Community Organizing
& Campaign Strategy
When causes stall or communities need direction, JLM helps leaders turn purpose into powerful, people-centered action.
Drawing from decades of experience in grassroots and national movements, he supports teams in designing strategies that inspire participation, strengthen relationships, and move ideas into measurable impact.
Whether you’re launching a new initiative or scaling an existing campaign, JLM helps you navigate the complex landscape of coalition-building, storytelling, and strategy design aligned with your values and move communities toward transformation that lasts.
Speaking, Facilitation
& Training
With a rare combination of passion, depth, and practical wisdom to every space he leads, JLM is a seasoned speaker and facilitator, creating experiences that don’t just inspire—they shift perspectives and spark meaningful action.
His sessions invite participants to reflect, connect, and reimagine what’s possible for themselves, their teams, and their communities.
Whether online or in person, in English or Spanish, he meets people where they are and guides them toward greater clarity and purpose.
Behind the Work
I’m José Luis Marantes—most people call me JLM. I’m a strategist, organizer, and coach who believes deeply in the power of people to create real, lasting change. Born and raised in Hialeah, Florida, I carry my Cuban roots and community spirit into everything I do. For over two decades, I’ve helped leaders find clarity, courage, and purpose—especially when the path forward feels uncertain.
My work has taken me from grassroots movements to boardrooms, always with the same mission: help organizations and leaders get unstuck, find clarity, and move their teams toward purpose and impact.
I’ve coached more than 100 executive leaders and trained over 20,000 managers and changemakers across the U.S. and Latin America on building equitable, sustainable, and results-driven teams. My work bridges cultures, languages, and experiences, always centered on helping people lead with purpose and organize with heart.
I cut my teeth in the immigrant rights movement, where I helped shape the campaign that paved the way for over 800,000 young immigrants to adjust their status through DACA. I co-founded United We Dream, now the largest immigrant youth-led network in the nation, and later served in senior leadership roles guiding national and state efforts for equity and social justice. Along the way, I was recognized by Ashoka Changemakers as an Emerging Innovator for work that connected diverse communities and fostered collaboration across difference.
These experiences have shaped my philosophy: transformation happens when people move from doubt to conviction, from ideas to action, and from isolation to community. Whether I’m mentoring leaders, designing strategy, or building the next generation of changemakers, my focus remains the same—to unlock what’s possible when people lead together.
If you’re ready to lead with clarity, courage, and connection, let’s talk.
25,000+
Equipped over 25,000 nonprofit and social justice leaders with tools to lead with clarity, equity, and impact.
$1.2M
Secured a $1.2 million grant to expand youth organizing programs, reaching 600+ young leaders in Florida in 2024.
500+
Placed over 500 immigrant youth in leadership roles within the progressive movement.
200+
Legal advocacy efforts helped halt over 200 student deportations across the U.S.
1200%
Scaled organization’s funding by 1200%. Securing backing from major national foundations.
Ready to take your leadership
& impact to the next level?
Engage with Jose Luis to unlock actionable strategies, ignite your team, and drive real change. Let’s make it happen.