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Carla Harris

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Carla Harris is a Vice Chairman, Managing Director and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley.

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“Carla Harris is absolutely amazing – a warm and wonderful person, as well as a gifted speaker! We are very lucky that her schedule allowed her to speak with us finally! She even gave us a few choruses of her amazing gospel voice at the end which was a really treat. She was very powerful! Thank you so much for making that happen for us!”

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Why you should book Carla Harris for your next event

  • In August 2013, Carla was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National
    Women’s Business Council.
  • “Carla’s Pearls” have become the centerpiece for her many speeches and television
    appearances.
  • She formerly headed the Emerging Manager Platform, the equity capital markets effort for the consumer and retail industries and was responsible for Equity Private Placements.
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Carla Harris is the past Chair of the Board of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and of The Executive Leadership Council, and sits on the boards of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), A Better Chance, Inc, and St. Vincent’s Hospitals, and is an active member of the St. Charles Gospelites of the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church and the Mark Howell Singers.

Why you should book Carla Harris for your next event

  • In August 2013, Carla was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National
    Women’s Business Council.
  • “Carla’s Pearls” have become the centerpiece for her many speeches and television
    appearances.
  • She formerly headed the Emerging Manager Platform, the equity capital markets effort for the consumer and retail industries and was responsible for Equity Private Placements.

For more than a decade, Ms. Harris was a senior member of the equity syndicate desk and executed such transactions as initial public offerings for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Ariba, Redback, the General Motors sub-IPO of Delphi Automotive, and the $3.2 Billion common stock transaction for Immunex Corporation, one of the largest biotechnology common stock transactions in U.S. history.

Ms. Harris was named to Fortune Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America”, Fortune’s Most Influential List, U. S. Bankers Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance (2009, 2010, 2011), Black Enterprise’s Top 75 Most Powerful Women in Business (2017), and “Top 75 African Americans on Wall Street”, and to Essence Magazine’s list of “The 50 Women Who are Shaping the World”, Ebony’s list of the Power 100 and “15 Corporate Women at the Top” and was named “Woman of the Year 2004” by the Harvard Black Men’s Forum and in 2011 by the Yale Black Men’s Forum.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Carla received an MBA, Second Year Honors from Harvard Business School and an AB in economics from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude. Carla has also received Honorary Doctorates of Laws, Humanities and Business from Marymount Manhattan College, Bloomfield College, Jacksonville University, Simmons College, the College of New Rochelle, St. Thomas Aquinas College and Fisk 3/3 University, Wake Forest University and Felician University respectively.

Carla Harris is actively involved in her community and heartily believes that “we are blessed so that we can be a blessing to someone else.”

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The Leader

Carla Harris is a Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. She was most recently as a Vice Chairman responsible for increasing client connectivity and penetration to enhance revenue generation across the firm. She formerly headed the Emerging Manager Platform, the equity capital markets effort for the consumer and retail industries and was responsible for Equity Private Placements.

In her 30+ year career, Ms. Harris has had extensive industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors. In August 2013, Carla Harris was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council.

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The Author

“Carla’s Pearls” have become the centerpiece for her many speeches and television appearances. In Expect to Win, Carla shares these valuable lessons, including:

  • Authenticity: The Power is You
  • The 90-Day Rule
  • Perception is the Co-Pilot to Reality
  • The Mentor, The Sponsor, The Adviser: Having Them All
  • Leverage Your Voice
  • Balance is a Necessity: Use Your Passions to Achieve it
  • Expect to Win: Show Up With Your Best Self Every Day
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The Singer

Carla is an accomplished singer who has delighted audiences around the world with her soulful renditions of new and old gospel favorites. Starting young with a love of singing, she quickly migrated towards choral music and gospel choirs at age 13.

While at Harvard, Carla continued to pursue her music, singing with the world-renowned Radcliffe Chorale Society, the oldest women’s singing group at Harvard, and in her own band Rhythm Company. She has performed four sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall and released several albums (Carla’s First Christmas, Joy is Waiting, Unceasing Praise).

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“The weekend was great – Carla Harris was exceptional, and we had an excellent event. The feed back from our CEO and Senior Management team and everyone who attended the event was all very positive. It was a privilege to work with Carla and to have her share with the staff. She also has a phenomenal voice – and although she did not include a singing performance in her presentation, we knew that she does sing and a staff member requested that she did and she was gracious and sang a lovely song for us. I would recommend her any time, very impressive and dynamic lady. Thanks to you and you team as usual for your support and smooth and professional manner in handling of the process you are involved. “

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5 out of 5 stars

“Carla Harris is absolutely amazing – a warm and wonderful person, as well as a gifted speaker! We are very lucky that her schedule allowed her to speak with us finally! She even gave us a few choruses of her amazing gospel voice at the end which was a really treat. She was very powerful! Thank you so much for making that happen for us!”

CB Richard Ellis See all references

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