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Board Leadership

Carrie provides strategic guidance to help boards facilitate effective and grounded decision-making. The companies she advises as a board director consistently outperform peers on financial metrics and employee satisfaction — making her a trusted director and successful consultant.

Carrie’s operational expertise comes from a deep understanding of how boards actually work. She’s advised boards in sustainability, tech, B2B, and B2C spaces, helping them make purpose-driven decisions and improving their processes. She excels at managing high-stakes board dynamics, guiding multi-stakeholder environments, and scaling organizations globally.

Through innovation process design, consistent operational excellence, and exceptional partnership development, Carrie helps boards achieve true stakeholder alignment.

Building

Resilient and Innovative Boards

Carrie knows that the most impactful boards thrive with a diversity of perspectives, embracing contradictory truths to uncover new opportunities. She’s experienced at finding solutions that engage stakeholders while adding to the bottom line.

  • Strategy + Systems

    Carrie develops practical processes that improve board operations and strengthen organizations overall. She creates efficient systems that drive performance and foster more possibilities for value creation.

  • Leadership Coaching

    Carrie empowers leaders to create productive and joyful board environments. Through a process focused on skill-building and expansive thinking, Carrie helps leaders communicate their ideas and manage stakeholder relationships.

  • Stakeholder Alignment

    Carrie brings a holistic approach to strategic planning, conflict resolution, shareholder advocacy, and more. She understands how to create the consensus needed to make progress on important issues and work toward long-term financial goals

Testimonials

"Carrie is “the” extraordinary and transformational purposeful top visionary leader, investor, innovator. Carrie uniquely and significantly guides and impacts the world across all dimensions and broad sectors from business, capital markets, translational research, academia, education, media to governments, United Nations, NGOS, foundations, civil society, sustainability – and always by force multiplying outstanding measurable execution."

— Stephen Iberaki, Global Chairman REDDS Capital, Microsoft 21 Global Awards, Investor/Venture Capitalist, Futurist, Founder & Chair Outreach UN ITU AI For Good, Author, 300+ recognitions

"I am delighted to endorse Carrie for her exceptional ability to make tough decisions, while maintaining strong, positive relationships. Carrie's approach to leadership is defined by her commitment to integrity and transparency. When we were working through difficult collaborations that were not always working well, and even having to wind-down, she consistently demonstrated a balance of firmness, empathy, and humor. As a result, she was able to navigate high complexity with a deep respect for all stakeholders involved and I believe she would be a valuable asset to any team or organization."

— Rob Kaplan, CEO Circulate Capital

"Carrie Freeman is a seasoned global B Corp CEO whose remarkable leadership resiliency stands as a testament to her unwavering commitment to sustainable and ethical business practices. Her ability to navigate challenges with strategic foresight and inspire cross functional teams and stakeholders through a shared vision of positive impact has set a gold standard in her industry. Carrie’s resilience not only ensures the enduring success of the organization she leads, but also exemplifies the transformative power of purpose-driven leadership."

— Sarah Owen, Corporate and Non-Profit Executive

"Carrie worked for me the better part of three years. During that time she displayed two qualities that really set her apart from her peers. Carrie can both dream and execute. It’s seriously rare. She didn’t back down from doing the hard work of finding a path; nor did she shrink from the task of coming up with an idea worth executing. If she says she can do something; my opinion is that she probably can."

— William Swope, Retired Intel Executive, Investor, Advisor, Coach

"Having collaborated with Carrie for over a decade, I'm inspired by her big picture views and her innovative approaches to creating solutions to address the big problems facing humanity. Her leadership unifies and influences diverse stakeholders to think creatively and to take action as individuals and collectives."

— Ron Garan, Former NASA Astronaut and Serial Entrepreneur

"Carrie combines deep business expertise with bold expansive thinking to create visions of what's possible. She inspires people to take action, big and small, towards realizing success. Her commitment to results is underpinned by operational excellence and intentionality for how it's achieved. She's an operator, a visionary, and a leader committed to future-facing ways of achieving results. When I think of the type of builder the world needs now, Carrie is top of mind."

— Ellen Petry Leanse, Author, Speaker, Silicon Valley Influencer

"There are so many kinds of leaders, but working with Carrie has shown me a very special kind of leader. Carrie is a born leader, strategist, motivator and driver of some of the most disruptive and innovative teams. Her integrity, values-driven and purpose achieving leadership has been such a striking example of what I would expect from a leader. Being able to manage very diverse, fast-paced, global and local teams and strategies is something that I have seen Carrie do beautifully. Ah and on top of all that, she is an amazingly beautiful human being to work with, a delight in terms of human relationship builder."

— Daniel Truran, Chief Learning Officer and Director General at EBBF, Advisor, Business School Professor

"Since 2021, I have thoroughly enjoyed my time working with Carrie in my role of President of the Board of the SecondMuse Foundation. She is a thoughtful, strong communicator, who is able to tactfully manage any challenges that arise. She also demonstrated high emotional intelligence and resiliency as she supported the staff and Board in navigating the Foundation’s programming spinning out to partner organizations. With her strategic and visionary mind, I am confident that she will excel in anything she pursues."

— Nicole McDonald, Impact Investor, Philanthropy Executive

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