Carolyn Ly-Donovan

Consultant
Carolyn helps organizations and executive leadership teams improve their operating model. Drawing on her expertise as an organizational and cultural sociologist (Ph.D., Yale University), she is deeply curious and dedicated to helping organizations transform their culture and design. With a range of experience from retail management to the professoriate, Dr. C leads organizational transformation and strategy for clients while helping to develop product innovations for Factor.AI. Having called New York, Connecticut, and South Dakota home, Carolyn has returned to her roots and is based in Minneapolis. She is an avid NFL Vikings fan (ask her about being at the Minneapolis Miracle playoff game).
Core strengths:
Enrapturing any audience with insight
Making big, scary ideas feel fun, light, and inspiring
Breaking even the coldest of ice with heartfelt goofiness
Core strengths:
Finding the needle of insight in a haystack of data
Fostering harmony in diverse groups of highly skilled people
Braveheart-style inspirational speeches
Core strengths:
Making complex ideas concrete and digestible
Creating environments where people can speak the hard truth without fear
Always finding the perfect sports metaphor
Core strengths:
Cultivating problem solving ideation and strategic thinking
Accelerating high performance of collaborative teams
Coaching leaders through transformations
Core strengths:
Unlocking creativity through structured thinking
Bridging communication gaps
Figuring out exactly what type of nerd you are and running with it

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