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When you are seen as powerful, no one tells you the truth. My job is telling you the truth, probably have you laughing but wind up helping you create the impact you want.
• Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
• Visiting Professor, Henley Business School
• Senior Advisor, Egon Zehnder
• Founder, Institute of Coaching w/ $2M gift from Harnisch Foundation
• Ranked #1 Leadership Coach, Marshall Goldsmith Group
• Ranked top 8, Thinkers 50 for my impact on the field of coaching
• Leader as Coach program won Harvard's Inaugural award for a culture of excellence in mentoring
• 40,000 sessions of experience and love coaching as much as when I began
• CarolKauffman.com, please visit Knowledge Philanthropy
Of all the things I do, I love coaching leaders the most. I’ve been told (by clients) that I’m a lateral thinker who pushes the edges, engages with a sense of humor and can disrupt someone out of their comfort zone.
My number one question is “Who do you want to be, Right now?” As a CEO of a global company put it, “The least important meeting of my week, is the most important one for them, so I need to ask myself that question many times a day.”
I love starting things. In addition to founding the Institute of coaching I launched one of the most successful conferences at Harvard Medical School, the annual Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare (Shaping the future), a series of International Research Forums, Institute of Coaching Global Leadership Forums, The Professional Development for Faculty Leader as Coach Program at Harvard the Coaching Skills for Leaders at Egon Zehnder and the first academic journal for a major publishing house as the Founding Editor in Chief of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice.
I’m a serial thought leader and travel the world giving academic as well as business talks with a 40+ page CV. I was part of the famous Harvard Trauma Study Group where we the first to see that survivors of abuse merited the same treatment as war veterans and developed that PTSD diagnosis. In 2000, with the advent of Positive Psychology I worked with Marty Seligman and others and published in the first handbook of Applied Positive Psychology. From there stepped into thought leadership in the field of Leadership Coaching and published in the first handbook of Evidenced Based Coaching. I’ve also published in HBR and academic journals and numerous media
All of these experiences matter the most to me as they help me become better at understanding and coaching leaders.