Carolyn Lebanowski
Carolyn began her professional career in retail and grew to become an experienced and respected senior-level executive with expertise in strategic development, organizational communication, and executive coaching. After nearly three decades of career growth in corporate organizational development, Carolyn was ready for a career change—and a life change. This led to a new role and the most challenging, enriching, and rewarding work of her life, as a Strategic Business Leader for nonprofit spiritual institutions. As Executive Director and Chief Opportunity Officer for 2 large organizations, it gave her the opportunity to fuse the professional and the personal, aligning her business acumen with her spiritual identity and passion for the development of human potential—in her colleagues, in her community, and in herself. Carolyn is a writer who seeks above all to share from the heart. Her impulse to write began 20 years ago with letters to her children and grew into journaling that was unedited and life-affirming. Today she writes with a focus on raw, authentic, and lived experience, to explore, express, and make sense of the pain and joy, and struggles and triumphs, of life. In all her endeavors, she champions connection, integrity, and radical positivity. Today, Carolyn is a published author and a Columnist/Featured Contributor at BIZCATALYST 360° and is living in Cascais, Portugal.
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I Am Who I Am Because….
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing...
Falling Forward
Not until we are lost do, we begin to understand ourselves.
~Henry David Thoreau Do you...
Cultivating Connection
I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen,...
Motherless Daughters
Ask any woman whose Mother has died at an early (or any) age and...
Benchmarks
benchmark
/ˈbɛn(t)ʃmɑːk/
noun
noun: benchmark; plural noun: benchmarks
a standard or point of reference against which things may be compared.
“I...
Patience is a Hard Discipline
Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until something happens over...
Every Woman Needs Another Woman
I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in...
Lessons Worth Learning are Worth Sharing
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
—Stephen...
To the Man who Married my Only Daughter….
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together...
Dare to Move
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
–Chinese Proverb Some called...