Professional Profile
Andrés Cordero, Jr., Ph.D.
Researcher
Writer
Educator
Facilitator
Curriculum Designer
Strategic Consultant
Human Sexuality Scholar
I help individuals, organizations, and educational institutions explore sexuality, embodiment, consent, relationships, and human flourishing through research, teaching, and practical application.
About
Understanding sexuality requires more than studying it. It requires listening to how people live it.
Andrés Cordero Jr., PhD, is a scholar, practitioner, educator, and communicator working at the intersection of human sexuality, embodiment, intimacy, culture, and lived experience. His professional path combines a PhD in Human Sexuality, an MBA in Marketing, sexuality research and education, and more than 30 years of experience working across corporate, government, nonprofit, educational, and community settings.That breadth of experience shapes his approach to scholarship. Andrés believes rigorous research is most powerful when it remains connected to the people, bodies, relationships, and communities it seeks to understand. His work therefore brings academic inquiry into conversation with embodied knowledge, experiential learning, cultural context, and the complexities of everyday human experience.As a writer and communicator, he is particularly interested in making sophisticated ideas clear without making them simplistic. Whether conducting research, developing educational content, teaching, speaking, or collaborating with organizations, he approaches complex and sometimes sensitive subjects with curiosity, evidence, cultural awareness, and respect for multiple ways of knowing.At the center of his work is a simple commitment: to ask meaningful questions, examine them rigorously, and communicate what we learn in ways that deepen understanding and contribute to more informed conversations about sexuality, intimacy, embodiment, and human connection.
Writing
Good writing doesn’t simply explain what we know. It helps us ask better questions.
Good writing doesn’t simply explain what we know. It helps us ask better questions.I write at the intersection of human sexuality, embodiment, intimacy, culture, and lived experience, bringing the perspectives of a researcher, practitioner, educator, and communicator to subjects that are often complex, deeply personal, and culturally significant.My writing spans featured articles, essays, research writing, educational content, and commissioned projects for academic, professional, organizational, and public audiences. Whether examining research, exploring an emerging idea, developing educational materials, or contributing to a publication, I combine scholarly inquiry with accessible language and attention to the human experiences behind the subject.My approach is grounded in curiosity, evidence, cultural awareness, and respect for complexity. I am especially interested in writing that creates bridges—between scholarship and practice, research and lived experience, intellectual understanding and embodied knowledge—and opens space for deeper, more informed conversations about sexuality and what it means to be human.
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Research
The most meaningful research doesn’t simply produce answers. It changes the questions we are willing to ask.
My research is grounded in curiosity about human sexuality, embodiment, intimacy, identity, culture, and connection—particularly the places where established knowledge intersects with experiences that remain understudied, misunderstood, or difficult to articulate.Through research projects, publications, conference presentations, and collaborative inquiry, I bring together scholarly rigor and an appreciation for lived and embodied experience. My approach recognizes that understanding sexuality requires attention not only to data and theory, but also to culture, relationships, communities, bodies, and the meanings people make from their experiences.I am especially interested in interdisciplinary and collaborative research that creates bridges—between scholarship and practice, quantitative and qualitative ways of knowing, academic inquiry and community experience. Whether conducting original research, contributing to publications, presenting findings, or collaborating with other researchers and organizations, my goal is to ask meaningful questions, examine them thoughtfully, and communicate what we learn in ways that advance both knowledge and conversation.
Teaching
The most powerful learning doesn’t simply give us new information. It changes how we understand ourselves, one another, and the world around us.
I teach at the intersection of human sexuality, embodiment, intimacy, identity, culture, and connection, bringing together the perspectives of a scholar, practitioner, educator, and communicator. My approach combines research and theory with dialogue, reflection, and embodied and experiential learning—creating opportunities for participants not only to understand ideas, but to explore how those ideas take shape in bodies, relationships, communities, and culture.My work includes workshops, guest teaching, conference presentations, facilitated learning experiences, and invited speaking for academic, professional, organizational, and community audiences. Topics can be developed for a particular audience or context while remaining grounded in evidence, cultural awareness, thoughtful inquiry, and respect for the complexity of human experience.At the center of my teaching is a commitment to creating spaces where people can ask meaningful questions, encounter new perspectives, and connect knowledge with experience. Whether in a classroom, conference, workshop, or facilitated conversation, my goal is not simply to communicate what we know, but to create the conditions for deeper understanding, curiosity, and discovery.
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Speaking
Meaningful ideas deserve more than an audience. They deserve conversation, context, and the opportunity to create something new.
I speak and collaborate on subjects at the intersection of human sexuality, embodiment, intimacy, identity, culture, and connection, bringing the perspectives of a scholar, practitioner, educator, and communicator to complex questions about human experience.My work extends beyond the podium. Through presentations, curriculum development, research and educational reports, special projects, and organizational collaborations, I work with universities, publishers, conferences, nonprofits, researchers, media, training organizations, and community partners to translate knowledge into experiences and resources that inform, engage, and invite further inquiry.Each collaboration begins with the audience, the questions being explored, and the context in which the work will live. Whether developing a presentation, contributing expertise to a project, creating educational content, or working with an organization over time, I bring together scholarly inquiry, practical experience, and thoughtful communication to make complex ideas accessible without diminishing their complexity.
Consulting
Not every meaningful question arrives with a predefined solution—or fits within a predefined service.
My consulting work creates space for projects, questions, and collaborations that extend beyond traditional research, writing, teaching, and speaking. I work with universities, publishers, nonprofits, researchers, media, training organizations, and other partners seeking thoughtful expertise related to human sexuality, embodiment, intimacy, identity, culture, education, and human connection.Depending on the context, my role may include serving as a subject-matter expert, advisor, collaborator, reviewer, strategist, curriculum or program contributor, research interpreter, or thought partner. Some engagements begin with a clearly defined project; others begin simply with a question, an emerging idea, or a challenge that would benefit from another perspective.My approach draws from an interdisciplinary professional background spanning human sexuality, research, education, organizational leadership, business, nonprofit and community work, and embodied practice. Rather than applying a single framework to every challenge, I bring together scholarly inquiry, practical experience, strategic thinking, and clear communication to understand what the situation requires.At its best, consulting is not about arriving with all the answers. It is about asking better questions, bringing the right knowledge into the conversation, and helping create possibilities that may not have been visible before.
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Coaching
Knowing something about ourselves is not always the same as experiencing it differently.
My embodied coaching work explores the space between intellectual understanding and lived experience. Drawing from human sexuality, embodiment, somatic and experiential practices, and reflective inquiry, I support people in becoming more curious about how they experience their bodies, desires, pleasure, intimacy, relationships, and sense of connection.My approach is pleasure-positive, consent-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive. Rather than prescribing what sexuality, intimacy, or personal growth should look like, I approach coaching as a collaborative process of inquiry—one that invites people to notice what is present, explore what is possible, and develop greater awareness of the choices available to them.Embodied coaching is also an important dimension of my work as a scholar and educator. It keeps my research, writing, and teaching connected to the complexity of lived human experience and reinforces a principle that runs throughout my work: theory can help us understand experience, but experience can also challenge, deepen, and transform what we think we know.My embodied coaching practice and individual coaching services are offered through Ecstatic Life Path. Visit Ecstatic Life Path to learn more about my approach, coaching options, and opportunities to work with me.
Resources
Good questions rarely lead to a single source. They open doors to further exploration.
Throughout my work as a researcher, educator, practitioner, and writer, I encounter people, organizations, scholarship, books, research, educational materials, and other resources that deepen my understanding, challenge my thinking, or offer useful perspectives on human sexuality, embodiment, intimacy, identity, culture, pleasure, and connection.I have gathered selected resources here as pathways for continued inquiry. Some inform my own scholarship and practice; others complement the subjects I research, write about, teach, and explore through my professional work. Together, they reflect my belief that meaningful learning benefits from multiple disciplines, perspectives, communities, and ways of knowing.This is not intended to be an exhaustive library—or an endorsement of every idea contained within it. Instead, it is a curated collection of places to continue exploring. Read critically. Follow your curiosity. Question what you encounter. And allow what you discover to lead you toward the next question.
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Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Expertise is shaped not only by what we study, but by the experiences, disciplines, and communities that inform how we understand the world.
My curriculum vitae traces a professional and academic journey spanning more than three decades, from work across corporate, government, nonprofit, educational, and community settings to advanced scholarship, research, teaching, writing, and practice in human sexuality. My education—including a PhD in Human Sexuality and an MBA in Marketing—reflects the interdisciplinary perspective that continues to shape how I approach research, education, communication, and human experience.Within the CV, you will find a detailed record of my education and credentials, professional experience, research, publications, presentations, teaching, leadership, and scholarly and professional activities. While these experiences cross disciplines and sectors, they share a common thread: curiosity about people, systems, culture, and the ways knowledge can be translated into greater understanding.The CV offers the most comprehensive view of the experiences behind my work as a scholar, practitioner, educator, and communicator and is available for download below.
Contact
The next meaningful project might begin with a question we haven’t asked yet.
I welcome inquiries from universities, publishers, conference organizers, nonprofits, researchers, media, training organizations, and others interested in exploring opportunities to work together. Whether you are considering a research collaboration, looking for a writer or subject-matter expert, planning a conference or educational experience, developing a new initiative, or simply wondering whether my perspective might contribute to your work, I would be glad to hear from you.You don’t need to have everything figured out before reaching out. Bring the project, the opportunity, the challenge—or simply the question.Tell me what you’re thinking about. Let’s explore where the conversation might lead.