Carolyn Rowe
With over twenty years of experience with BP, a Global Fortune 4 oil and energy company, both as an internal and external consultant, Carolyn Rowe focuses on leadership and team development through helping people have conversations of importance. She has a tremendous capacity in her training designs and team sessions to use humor, creativity, and energizing activities to help people connect and build deep relationships as well as learn and stretch in ways they would not have predicted which buoys up performance results back in the workplace.
· Carolyn uses a customized and creative approach to design highly regarded and energizing global leadership programs, interventions and training. She was a key consultant on a global team who conceptualized, designed and delivered a highly acclaimed leadership development program over a period of five years for BP to 12,000 BP first level leaders called the First Level Leaders Event. Leaders who attended the program received higher performance feedback than their non-attending peers as summarized in a Harvard Business Review article in 2005.
· As an experienced and thoughtful facilitator, Carolyn is able to design team interventions and team building for all the stages of a team’s life in order to build “Teams of Integrity” where there are insightful conversations about the strengths of the team members, their values, the team’s direction and objectives, and the processes that they will use to accomplish their work together.
Carolyn…
· Has an exceptional reputation for developing creative interactive team and leadership workshops that are customized to deliver the leader’s outcomes and that connect participants at the heart level, invite participation through evoking their experience and knowledge, and leave participants inspired to take action to commit learning insights to new behaviors and skills.
· Custom designs workshops through all the phases of a team’s life to meet the “current fitness of the team” and helps them “move the ball down the field” by checking in on progress and strategizing next steps. Believes that there is "magic” in a team experiencing high energy learning activities in order to build deeper relationships.
· Has extensive experience in working with leaders at all levels in delivering MBTI Sessions for their teams, Upward Feedback, 360 Feedback, HBDI (Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument), Change Management, Leadership Transition Sessions, and delivering training courses in Communications, Performance Management, Career Management, and Coaching for High Performance as well as her favorite…Having Difficult Conversations!
· Passionate about and experienced in guiding leaders through learning insights and practice to have honest meaningful conversations when the topic may be challenging and could make the difference in the progression of an employee’s career.
· Coaches leaders by building a trusting relationship where they can feel comfortable in sharing achievements and challenges, and asking for help…even when they should know the answer.
· Brings insights and experience to train less experienced facilitators to successful workshop design and delivery.
Former Colleagues have this to say about Carolyn:
Kristi Acuff, Alyeska Pipeline Company, Anchorage, Alaska, HR Director
“Carolyn Rowe is the most insightful people coach I have worked with in my 20 years of HR management. Carolyn makes a difference in people’s lives through connecting them with the true meaning of leadership.”
Katherine Farnham, Providence Health Systems (Former BP Leader)
“High performance and collaborative, constructive behaviors are far more ‘the norm’ at BP, thanks in part to the many focused efforts designed and delivered by Carolyn Rowe.”
Dr. Alice Galvin, BP Exploration, Learning and Development Manager
“Carolyn excels at designing programs that meet business needs and deliver results. She translates business needs into programs that help others discover new ways to apply what they already know and to integrate new information into their strengths.
She is always result focused, but her style is to 'evoke from' participants rather than 'tell'. She is exceptionally creative and inventive, and gets people to learn and stretch in ways they would not have predicted.
She captures the minds and hearts of people who work with her because of her ability to connect with all personality types and learning styles. Being both talented and customer focused, she is always a joy to work with”.
Invite Carolyn to talk with you about your team. She will meet you at your need, get clear about your desired outcomes, and design training and interventions that will take your team to the next level of performance. For more information you can also visit her website at www.connections-leadership.com