"I was Carolyn's coaching client since December of last year and I have only phenomenal things to say about her and her work! She truly cares about her clients and approaches her clients with a strong sense of empathy.
We met at a point in my life where I was struggling with confidence, risk-aversion, and a lack of self-trust. During our time together, we focused on battling the inner critic, grounding bodywork, visualizations, resourcefulness, and tapping into my own intuition with a gentle sense of curiosity. She always asked such powerful questions that led me to realize that I have all the answers within myself. I also appreciated how sensitive she was around mental health. She taught me how to be more self-compassionate and she was uplifting me every step of the way, even when I struggled.
I never thought that I'd be entrepreneurial before I met Carolyn, but I've now opened up a vintage and art shop. I don't think I would have arrived at this moment without her positive affirmations and her unwavering trust in me. I've arrived at a point in my journey where I am more authentic with myself and others and this is the most confident I've felt all my life.
Carolyn is such a joy to work with and I know I'll always have her as an available resource to reach out to. I highly recommend coaching with her!"
Angelique Taloyo, Solutions Consultant at Google
"Carolyn supported me as VP of Engineering on Google Chrome. Carolyn is really a model People Partner and coach in all my experience working with People Partners.
Carolyn has been an amazing coach & partner to me and other leaders within Chrome. She is both thoughtful in how she helps solve problems but also extremely strong as a coach helping me sort through complex issues. Carolyn's superpower is as a coach, both in how she is there to listen, ask thoughtful questions, and explore issues but also in terms of her ability to keep leaders accountable for growing & taking action. She also offers insightful advice and adeptly strikes a balance between being supportive and at the same time assertive. I have been so impressed by her consistent and outstanding approach.
Carolyn cares a lot about supporting the people and teams she works with. She always puts in the extra effort into her work. She cares deeply about the right things happening, values integrity, and has high expectations for those around her. She takes her job very seriously and is all business while at the same time being extremely approachable and friendly to work with. It is a rare combination.
Darin Fisher, VP of Engineering at Google
"Carolyn was an incredible people partner and coach to me as a Director at Google. Her partnership was invaluable in making and executing on multiple tricky organization changes and in regularly assessing and improving team culture and cross-team dynamics. She has high EQ, asks great questions, listens, and picks up on subtle people patterns. She also helped me identify some leadership blind spots, relevant development opportunities, and struck a perfect balance between support, advocate, and accountability buddy. She is hard-working, compassionate, adaptive to what the situation demands, and helps bring out the best in any team or leader she works with. Even though we no longer partner directly, she is someone I still go to for advice or when I need a trusted sounding board. I'm grateful we worked closely together during her time in Chrome, and I hope we get a chance to again!"
Parisa Tabriz, Engineering Director at Google
"Carolyn has been an outstanding partner and coach for me in my role as an engineering Director at Google. She is the primary reason I've been able to build confidence and resiliency after stepping into a difficult executive leadership role. More importantly, over a period of multiple years she has helped our entire organization to build better alignment and trust, effectively navigate disagreements, and increase organizational efficiency.
Before I worked with Carolyn, I never would have imagined that the most valuable thing that could happen in making a large engineering organization run better would be the addition of the right coach and HR expert.
Thank you Carolyn!
Rick"
Rick Byers, Engineering Director at Google
"Carolyn is the very best executive coach I've worked with (and I've had several from Google, Wharton, etc!). She has a natural ability to connect authentically with others which makes them open up easily. Because of this talent, she not only seemed to understand me very well, but also revealed things about myself that I hadn’t known. It all culminated in coming out of the coaching sessions with great ideas and tangible next steps. To be honest, after my many experiences with coaches in the past, I was starting to get disillusioned with the whole industry. It is only after I started working with Carolyn that I realized just how effective a coach can be! I'd highly recommend her to anyone looking for a coach!"
Daniel Hausmann, Learning & Development at Facebook
"Coaching with Carolyn deepened my reflection about what matters at work. She helped me envision what's possible and discover powerful ways to reframe the challenge as an opportunity. Tremendously valuable!"
Director of Operations & People, Opus 12
"Carolyn and I worked closely together over an extended period of time. Her strength as an HR partner always impressed me. She has great breadth and flex in what she can do and how she works. She helped me through several complex situations in my team and generally up-leveling the strength of my group. She can be directive when required but has often coached me, helping me figure out what I want to do. I highly recommend Carolyn."
COO at X, an Alphabet company
"Carolyn is an exceptionally hard working and diligent HR partner. She strives for excellence in serving all of her clients in engineering, product, and senior leadership. She is an expert in people development through active listening and coaching. At Google Robotics we had many changes in the organization and Carolyn was the lynch pin that held the organization together by making sure there was good transition plan in place as well as facilitating the right conversation at the leadership level. She also coached many leaders new to Google on people management issues [...] Anybody would be lucky to have Carolyn as their HR partner."
VP of Engineering at Google
"I have been working with Carolyn in Google’s robotics division. Since she joined our division, she has been able to support our entire division in an excellent way. Many leaders have not been familiar with Google’s culture and with management in larger organization. Two of the most striking qualities of Carolyn are that she is able to coach, support, educate, and advise even very senior leaders in our organization [...] I very much enjoy working with Carolyn, and I have learned a lot from her and her leadership in our organization. Without any reservations, I very strongly recommend Carolyn as a HR partner."
Director at X, an Alphabet company
"I have been working with Carolyn for more than 4 years now on 3 different projects at Google X, the moonshot factory. Carolyn is a rare Human Resource Manager who is empathetic and understands people very well. I wouldn't be in the position I am right now without the guidance of Carolyn. Carolyn really helps people grow but she is also very strategic in her decision making process and always has in mind the good of the project she is working with, even if this means making really difficult decisions. I have been working in the tech industry for 13 years now and I have never worked with such an amazing Human Resource Manager, Carolyn will turn around your team from bad to an extremely functional one. I would work with Carolyn any time."
Engineering Leader at X, an Alphabet company & Waymo, an Alphabet company
More testimonials to come!