You’re Not In Charge of Your Destiny,
But you are in Charge of Your Probabilities.
Your Choices Belong to You.
coach, speaker, author
Your impact on people
determines your
impact on the world.
coach, speaker, author
Your impact on people
determines your
impact on the world.
carol kauffman
coach, speaker, author
Coach
Coaching is Carol’s passion. She will help you discover what ignites your excellence and overcome what blocks it.
Speaker
A member of the Harvard faculty for over 30 years, Carol is a natural born teacher. She brings humor and gravitas to each of her speaking engagements.
in progress
Book Project
A work in progress on how we silence ourselves and others and how we can speak again… or not.
real time leadership
Making Choices
When Stakes
are High
The best leaders and the biggest moments know how to read the situation, respond in the best way possible, and move forward. You can too,.
About Carol
• Global leader in leadership and coaching
• Harvard faculty for 30 years, founder of the Institute of Coaching
• Inducted into Thinkers50 Hall of Fame “Oscars of Management”
• Won Harvard’s inaugural Culture of Excellence in Mentoring Award
• Ranked #1 Leadership Coach in the World by Marshall Goldsmith
• 40,000+ hours of coaching practice
rules of rumination
The 3 a.m. Club
Here’s one day in my coaching life: A CEO of a multi-billion-dollar organization tells me, I wake up at 3:00am thinking, can I really do this? Four hours later a CMO with a billion dollar a year budget shares she woke up cycling through that tough conversation she had the day before, over and over and couldn’t stop.
If you’re up at night you are in good company! But how do we get back to sleep?
Would you like to read the Rules of Rumination and other short articles?
Hall of Fame 2025
Carol Kauffman
The Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame – the “Oscars of Leadership” – is an honor given in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to management thinking.
Dr. Kauffman’s pioneering work is seen to have shaped the way we understand and practice leadership.
