This course is not about “messaging” or “pitching.” It’s not about improving your style. It’s not about mastering social media or writing pithy Tweets. It’s also not about writing long, beautiful speeches or perfect emails. 

This course is a primer on how to communicate more effectively with anyone in any setting so that you can achieve more, together. It’s about how to have a conversation with one person or thousands of people.

In this course, Carly shares personal stories and experiences from throughout her career – from her start as a secretary to her time as a CEO and beyond – to teach you about the hard and soft skills of leadership. Carly has personally coached CEOs and executives in Fortune 500 companies for years. This is your opportunity to experience the same self-paced, individualized experience. Across 16 interactive, virtual lessons, Carly walks alongside you, as you develop the essential elements of leadership and learn how to use and practice proven tools she’s used throughout her career.

This course is important not because diversity is a nice thing to do, but because it’s a must-do. Diverse teams perform better and produce better results. It’s as simple as that. Unfortunately, despite significant spending on diversity and inclusion training across the country, we’re not making much progress. We’re not making progress because we have the wrong mindset. We’re tribal people and this work is hard. Too many of us expect it to be easy.

In this course we’re not going to talk about curing all of society’s ills today. There are of course systemic problems that need to be solved – but this course is about practical next steps you can take today to leverage diversity.

Whether you are an HR professional, in the c-suite, a team member, or a team leader – and no matter what kind of organization you’re currently in – this course will be useful to you. This course is for people who know they have work to do.

This course is for people who are ready to move past conversation to action. As a result, we are not going to spend any time talking about definitions or language. Are those things important? Of course. Absolutely. And there are a number of courses that teach those things well – but that is not the purpose of this course.

This course is about practical steps you can take today to build a more diverse team and a more equitable, inclusive culture. This is about moving past conversation to action.

Some people think that implementation isn’t a critical part of leadership. They don’t think it’s a necessary skill. They think that leaders are “vision” people who don’t have time, energy, or sometimes even the ability to spend time on implementation. 

And yet, we know that leaders get… things… done. Leaders recognize that their purpose is to the challenge the status quo and change the order of things for the better. They get things done. And therefore, they prioritize, execute, and implement. They don’t have to do it all themselves, but they have to get it done.

It’s easy to be confused about leadership in the good times. When a crisis hits and good times come to an end, as they have now, we are reminded that leaders are defined by none of these things, but instead by their behavior and their actions.

You will undoubtedly encounter crises in your professional and personal life; in fact, you probably already have. A crisis is unexpected and it forces you to throw out assumptions – things you took for granted as true. It doesn’t have to be as serious or as widespread as a global pandemic to qualify as a crisis. No matter what crisis you or your team are facing, the tools you learn here will help you to navigate through it and emerge stronger on the other side.