Carolyn Stefanco
Founder and CEO @Baret Leadership Consulting
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WORK HISTORY
Founder and CEO @Baret Leadership Consulting
Named for Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in the 18th century, Baret Leadership Consulting helps individuals, organizations, and institutions to cross boundaries and to defy odds by providing professional services in executive coaching (since 2010), global engagement, and board development. Clients work for institutions of higher education across the United States and around the world, American healthcare organizations, and global corporations.Using a goals-oriented approach, Baret executive coaching practice empowers clients to exceed their expectations. Typically, coaching clients are accomplished professionals who are seeking greater clarity about current challenges and opportunities, higher levels of achievement, and advancement into more senior roles.Rather than using a standard template, Dr. Stefanco adapts the work to the particular needs of the client. She is particularly skilled at helping them to understand complex, multi-layered problems, to navigate challenging political environments, and to lead organizational and cultural change. She listens deeply, and her approach tends towards pragmatic and action-oriented solutions to issues. As an experienced CEO and both a scholar of women and of leadership, she shares her first-hand experience and research with clients.For leaders dealing with complex and conflictual organizations, Carolyn offers systemic analysis and tactical advice. For those seeking career advancement, she partners with them to assess their strengths and weaknesses, and to develop and implement plans for professional growth. For those desiring broader impact, she provides guidance about thought leadership, community engagement, and board membership. For those actively seeking new roles, she offers support through the application, interview, and selection process that draws from her knowledge of search firms and consultants. For those preparing to begin new roles, she assists with transitioning and onboarding.
EDUCATION
Duke University
Ph.D., History
Binghamton University
M.A., Women's History
University of Colorado Boulder
B.A., History
ABOUT CAROLYN STEFANCO
Following two decades as a tenured professor of history, Dr. Carolyn J. Stefanco served as dean, vice president, and president in both public and private American universities. Her experience ranges from campuses in a large public system to private liberal arts colleges, and includes leadership positions at a polytechnic, a women\'s college, and an Hispanic Serving Institution. Along with the vast array of roles she has held in U.S. and global higher education, she is renowned as an expert in women\'s leadership, in international education, and in nonprofit governance.Dr. Stefanco\'s work has always incorporated a global perspective, and she continues to provide leadership in international higher education. She was a Senior Fulbright Scholar to the University of Zagreb in Croatia; served as resident director of a London Study Program; created many programs for student exchange and faculty research throughout the world; worked as a consultant for Saudi Arabia and in South Africa; and was a trustee and board chair of the American University in Bulgaria. As a college president, she led efforts to create numerous partnerships between American institutions and universities in other countries, and greatly expanded international student recruitment and representation. In addition to forging global connections, she is active in multiple areas of women\'s leadership and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Dr. Stefanco has founded numerous programs to support women\'s career advancement, including a Women\'s Leadership Institute, where she recruited an accomplished advisory board and was invited to join the BOLD Women\'s Leadership Network. She raised millions of dollars to launch initiatives to prepare diverse young women for leadership in their professions and communities. She also publishes regularly in popular and scholarly venues and is a sought-after speaker on women\'s issues. In recognition of her decades of achievement, she was awarded a Helen Gurley Brown Genius Award.Dr. Stefanco began her work as an Executive Coach in 2010, and her clients have held leadership positions at institutions such as Arizona State University, Franklin and Marshall College, LaGrange College, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Smith College, University of the Arts, University of Toledo, University of Wyoming, and William and Mary; at global tech corporations; and in the healthcare sector.Through Baret Leadership Consulting, she has expanded her practice areas to global engagement, and board development.
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