Carolyn Carpenter

Carolyn Carpenter is a dynamic, strategic, and customer-focused leader with a background in advising, leading, and transforming mission-driven organizations to enhance their impact.

She excels in managing large multi-functional teams to meet client needs, possessing exceptional relationship management and influencing skills.

Her expertise lies in strategic planning, organizational assessment, human capital strategy, cross-functional project management, stakeholder engagement, organizational change management, and interim leadership roles.

Carolyn's industry experience spans across the public sector, nonprofit sector, social enterprise, small business, education management, K-12 school districts, charter management organizations, adult professional learning, member-based organizations, and philanthropy.

She holds certifications as a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Scrum Master.

Carolyn pursued a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with concentrations in Management & Organizations and Finance from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and she also studied Biology, Sociology, and French in various institutions.

Throughout her career, Carolyn has held roles such as Executive Coach at EdFuel, Founder & CEO at Pearl Strategy Partners, Director of Operations at Turnaround for Children, Co-Founder at Young Education Professionals - NYC, Senior Project Manager at Pearson, Director at NYC Department of Education, Director of Strategy at Teach for America, Fellow at Education Pioneers, Senior Business Analyst at Liberty Mutual, and Consultant at Akibia Consulting.