2023 Prestigious Women Awards Honoree: Paige Pavlik Garrido

Paige Pavlik Garrido is the Assistant Director of Executive Education at FAU’s College of Business. Paige leads the Corporate Training Division, where she works with Florida’s leading organizations to help identify workforce skills deficiencies, build a curriculum to address the organization’s particular needs and deliver customized professional development training to raise organizational productivity and innovation. She also created the FAU Women in Executive Leadership Program, which helps the next generation of leaders reach their professional goals. Since the program began in 2018, more than 80 women have graduated and have gone on to make impactful moves in their respective industries and organizations. Garrido also leads the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce’s SMART Talk for Women monthly luncheons. Garrido earned her MBA degree from Florida Atlantic University and her undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is a mother to two teenagers and three cats and resides in Pompano Beach. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, gardening, scrapbooking, and theme parties and holidays. Her favorite professional quote is by Peter Baeklund: “The CFO asks the CEO: What happens if we invest in developing our people and they leave? CEO: What happens if we don’t and they stay?”