Women’s Leadership

In addition to her Life Sciences expertise, Carolyn is also a thought leader in the area women’s leadership, particularly looking at why diversity within management is important. Carolyn focuses her efforts on discussing and accelerating courageous leadership that fuels important, long-lasting community and organisational change.

Carolyn currently serves in a variety of capacities in the area of advancing women’s leadership, including recent Chair of the Board of the New York Women’s Foundation, member of the Global Advisory board of the Healthcare Women’s Business Association, and, in 2007, she was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg as a Commissioner of the New York City Commission on Women’s Issues. She is also the co-Founder of a multi-company task force exploring “The Hidden Brain Drain – Women & Minorities as Unrealized Assets” at the Center for Work-Life Policy, and is the co-author, along with Dr. Sylvia Hewlett, of multiple articles published in the Harvard Business Review, listed below.

Harvard Business Review Publications:

• “On-Ramps and Off-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success”, 2005
• “Hidden Brain Drain — and What Your Organization Can Do About It: A Conversation with Slyvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce
• “Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Talents of Your Minority Executives” , 2005
• “Extreme Jobs: The Danger and Allure of the 70 Hour Work Week” , 2006
• “The Athena Factor: Reversing the Brain Drain in Science, Engineering, and Technology”, 2008

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