Carolina Caro is a globally recognized keynote speaker helping leaders unlearn outdated patterns to evolve leadership, align teams, and transform culture.
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Carolina is one of the best presenters I have encountered.
Ken Robbins
Senior Vice President Investments, Raymond James
Carolina Caro is a globally recognized leadership and culture keynote speaker, CEO of Conscious Leadership Partners, and the creator of The Unlearning Advantage™. With over 15 years of experience, she helps organizations evolve leadership, align teams, and transform culture by addressing what often holds leaders back the most: outdated patterns of thinking and behavior. Carolina’s work empowers leaders to shed blind spots, lead with clarity and courage, and create cultures that support performance, inclusion, and long-term success.
Carolina Caro is a sought-after keynote speaker known for her ability to challenge leaders to rethink how they lead, communicate, and shape culture. As the CEO of Conscious Leadership Partners and the creator of The Unlearning Advantage™, Carolina focuses on one powerful idea: sustainable leadership transformation begins by unlearning what no longer serves us. Her work supports leaders and organizations navigating complexity, change, and growth in today’s evolving workplace.
With more than 15 years of experience, Carolina has guided thousands of leaders across industries to identify outdated habits, uncover blind spots, and develop a deeper level of self-awareness. Her approach goes beyond surface-level skills, helping leaders reconnect with who they are beyond the title and lead from a place of authenticity and intention.
At the core of Carolina’s work is The Unlearning Advantage™, a framework that helps leaders recognize how past success can quietly limit future growth. Rather than adding more tools or strategies, Carolina shows leaders how to release ingrained patterns that block collaboration, trust, and innovation.
Her keynotes are practical, engaging, and reflective, offering leaders the space to question assumptions, shift perspectives, and adopt new ways of thinking that align with modern leadership demands. The result is leadership development that feels relevant, human, and actionable long after the event ends.
Carolina has worked with leaders from a wide range of organizations, including NASA, the FBI, Warner Bros., Kaiser, and McDonald’s, as well as many others facing the challenges of cultural change, growth, and complexity. Her ability to connect with leaders at every level allows her to tailor messages that resonate across functions, industries, and cultures.
A triple citizen of Canada, the United States, and the European Union, Carolina brings a truly global perspective to her work. She understands how leadership, identity, and culture intersect differently across regions, and she skillfully bridges those differences to create shared understanding and alignment.
Carolina Caro holds the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, a distinction earned by fewer than fifteen percent of speakers worldwide. This credential reflects both her professionalism and the measurable impact of her work on audiences around the globe.
She is also a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and a Certified Diversity Executive (CDE). These credentials allow Carolina to blend leadership development, culture, and inclusion into a cohesive message that supports real organizational change rather than isolated initiatives.
Trained as a scientist with professional experience at Pfizer and Merck, Carolina brings an evidence-based lens to leadership and culture. She combines research, real-world experience, and practical insight with humor and heart, creating keynotes that are both intellectually grounded and emotionally engaging.
Her speaking style is direct, warm, and thought-provoking. Audiences leave feeling challenged without being overwhelmed, inspired without being lectured, and equipped with ideas they can immediately apply.
Organizations book Carolina Caro for leadership conferences, executive offsites, and culture-focused events where they want meaningful impact. Her keynotes help leaders at all levels rethink how they show up, how they lead others, and how they contribute to a culture that supports performance and belonging.
Carolina’s own unlearning journey continues to shape her mission: helping leaders and organizations embrace identity-level transformation that scales across teams and cultures. When you book Carolina Caro for your event, you invite a conversation that goes beyond motivation and sparks lasting change.
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Carolina is one of the best presenters I have encountered.
Ken Robbins Senior Vice President Investments, Raymond James
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Carolina gave an excellent presentation. The internal feedback I received included comments like "Best ever!". More importantly, the exercises and frameworks she provided started us on a very positive change for our team.
Anne Novamo R&D Manager, Hemostasis Werfen
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The response to her keynote was overwhelmingly positive. It delivered a poignant experience that addressed important challenges that were relevant for our participants while providing clear, actionable takeaways.
LaTanya Bogin-Jordan Director of Program Development & Strategic Engagement, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power
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Carolina has spoken at several of our conferences. We enjoy working with her and the audience always walks away with a great learning experience.
Dan Dycus Senior Director of Education Services, PayrollOrg
Keynote by Carolina Caro:
For years, organizations have tried to close leadership gaps through an outdated paradigm of addition; more skills, more tools, more solutions. But you can’t build stronger leadership by stacking new skills on top of old identity patterns.
Under pressure, leaders don’t rise to what they’ve learned; they revert to the identity that shaped them: the Achiever, the Fixer, the Expert, the Pleaser, the Controller; mistaking composure for coherence.
Real transformation doesn’t come from doing more, but from leading from a different state of being.
Most leadership programs focus on what leaders think and do while ignoring the system through which every decision, emotion, and action flows, the nervous system itself.
This keynote reframes leadership as Self-Coherence; a deep form of alignment between mind, emotion, language, and physiology that drives calm, clarity, and trust under pressure.
Because coherence is contagious; from the self who leads to the team that aligns, to the culture they co-create.
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn to:
See the pattern: Recognize how identity conditioning fragments attention and presence
Break the loop: Apply the POCA® Model for Unlearning to create space between reaction and response and choose from awareness instead of conditioning
Lead from coherence: Shift from doing leadership to embodying it; where clarity, trust, and authentic influence naturally emerge.
Ideal Audience: Individual contributors stepping into leadership roles, emerging leaders, high-potential professionals, and anyone ready to lead from greater self-awareness and intentionality.
Keynote by Carolina Caro:
Even the most capable teams struggle; not from lack of skill, but from relational conditioning: unseen dynamics that quietly erode trust, fracture connection, and disrupt cohesion.
Over time, reactive micro-patterns take root: self-protection, approval-seeking, control, avoidance, gossip, blame - creating friction that clouds communication, stalls decisions, and drains energy.
That’s the real tension: collaboration can be designed, but cohesion must be felt. Alignment built on process alone can’t hold under pressure. Most team development adds tools and structures without addressing the deeper system teams operate through; their collective nervous system and shared emotional rhythm.
This keynote reframes teamwork as Relational Coherence: when a team’s minds, emotions, and nervous systems synchronize to move as one. Through The Unlearning Advantage™, participants learn to recognize their collective defaults, repair micro-breaks in trust, and restore clarity and flow under pressure.
When relational coherence emerges, communication becomes transparent, collaboration fluid, and decisions accelerate without force. Change the “we-being,” and everything aligns.
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn to:
Surface relational patterns: Identify unspoken roles and dynamics that limit trust and collaboration
Repair dissonance: Apply the POCA® Model for Unlearning to notice team patterns in real time and reset alignment under pressure
Embody relational coherence: Replace reactivity with shared rhythm, cultivating clarity, trust, and collective flow
Ideal Audience:
People leaders, functional heads, project leads, and cross-functional teams who are navigating complexity and ready to strengthen collaboration, clarity, and alignment by unlearning the habits that get in the way.
Keynote by Carolina Caro:
Organizations rarely lose momentum for lack of strategy or talent.
They stall and eventually erode under collective conditioning: the legacy patterns and institutional identities that silently shape decisions, systems, and relationships.
Under pressure, those patterns surface: the company that scaled fast but lost agility; the legacy brand that talks transformation yet protects turf; the mission-driven organization that burns out its people. The result is misalignment, cultures that sound inspiring on paper but move out of sync in practice.
You can define values, but you can’t force culture to shift. Good intentions don’t rewire systemic patterns. Most development efforts add new processes without addressing the deeper system; the organizational nervous system driving behavior.
This keynote reframes culture as Collective Coherence: the alignment of story, structure, and system into an integrated, adaptive whole. Through The Unlearning Advantage™, participants learn to unearth legacy constraints, unlearn operating patterns and reorganize how the system responds under pressure.
When collective coherence emerges, communication aligns, collaboration integrates and execution flows. That’s culture in action.
Learning Objectives
Participants will learn to:
Ideal Audience:
C-suite leaders, Senior executives, culture and people officers, transformation teams, and executive groups focused on building a culture that is reflected in everyday decisions, interactions, and outcomes.
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