Carol Kauffman is known globally as one of the top leaders in the field of coaching. Marshall Goldsmith named her the no.1 Leadership Coach in the World, and Thinkers50 shortlisted her as one of the Top 8 Coaches for her contribution as a world-renowned thought leader and coach. She is an Assistant Professor at Harvard, where she is the Founder of the Institute of Coaching and a Visiting Professor at Henley Business School.

Carol has over 40,000 hours of client contact and has been described as a lateral thinker who pushes the edges with a sense of humor. She has the ability to coax people out of their comfort zone. She works with C-level level leaders to create the impact they want and to help them develop high trust, high performing teams.

A sampling of top leadership clients and their executive committees includes: 

• Ahold
• Astra Zeneca
• Cisco
• ConsenSys (Etherium)
• Dashlane
• Deutche Bank
• Direct Line Group
• Egon Zehnder
• GAP
• Genentech
• Harvard
• Indeed
• Informatica
• Knowls
• Lloyds
• Lyft
• Mastercard
• Oliver Wyman
• Owens-Illionis
• Rifinitiv
• Sonos
• Takeda
• Telefonica TriNet
• Unilever
• Vanderbilt
• Value Retail
• Vertex

 Leadership: Carol has impacted the profession of coaching on a global scale. While on the faculty at Harvard for over 25 years, she received a $2,000,000 gift from the Harnisch Foundation to be the founder of the Institute of Coaching. She also launched the Coaching Conference at Harvard and the Institute of Coaching Leadership Forum. This education-based community or 20,000 believes in establishing evidence based coaching

HBR requested she design their first research project and write “What Coaches Can Do for You” – their most frequently cited article on coaching. More recently at HBR she wrote “Without Compassion Resilient Leaders Fall Short.” She is also published and cited in many venues.

Coach Approach Training: Dr. Kauffman’s enormously successful Coach Approach Training for Leaders won the Harvard Medical School Inaugural Program Award for Culture of Excellence in Mentoring. Due to its national acclaim as the gold standard, the program has now rolled out over 30 of the top teaching hospitals in the US. Dr. Kauffman has trained hundreds of leaders at ConsenSys, Egon Zehnder, Oliver Wyman, Rifinitiv, Unilever and others.

Of all her ventures, Carol most enjoys coaching leaders and partnering with them as they navigate their way to having the impact they want and optimum performance and wellbeing.