Caroline is one of the world's leading experts on the science behind successful goal setting and the use of ‘good grit' to achieve hard things. For more than 30 years, she's been sharing her research-backed, actionable strategies to help people cultivate more grit and dig deeper to clarify and achieve their toughest goals.

Achieving hard goals is one of the most rewarding things we can do in both our personal and professional lives.

SPEAKER
In her keynote presentations and workshops, Caroline blends her personal experience, real-life timely examples, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology, to come up with practical applications that allow for maximum transformation, growth and flourishing in people's lives. Caroline leaves her audiences with tangible takeaways and actions they can use to create their own happiness and success.

Angela Duckworth, winner of the 2013 MacArthur Genius grant for her research on grit, said of Caroline: "I don't know anybody who has thought more than Caroline about how to apply the scientific research on grit and achievement to our own lives!" Caroline takes Angela Duckworth's research on grit a step further by distinguishing between good and bad grit - not all grit is created equal. In Caroline's latest book Getting Grit, she describes four types of ‘Good Grit' – Mt. Rushmore grit, Mt. Olympus grit, Celebrity grit and Ordinary grit – and three types of ‘Bad Grit' – Faux grit, Selfie grit, and Stupid grit. Caroline defines Authentic (‘Good') Grit as "the passionate pursuit of hard goals that awes and inspires others to become better people, flourish emotionally, take positive risks and live their best lives."

Caroline is a TEDx speaker. She has worked with clients around the world including: Morgan Stanley, lululemon, The Wharton School/UPENN, RE/MAX, Booz Allen, Young Presidents' Organization, Harvard Law School, American Bankers Association, Swisse Wellness, and more.

EDUCATOR
Caroline has a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School's Executive Education program. She was an adjunct lecturer in Positive Psychology and coaching at NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and at the University of Texas-Dallas School of Management for almost a decade. She facilitates webinars and training for dozens of organizations, including the VIA Institute on Character about well-being, productivity, grit, and success. Caroline was one of the first happiness experts to join and advise Happify, the premier digital platform offering evidence-based resilience solutions for employers and health plans.

PIONEER
Although she didn't have a word for it at the time, Caroline used "grit" to help overcome her personal battle with bulimia. As a young teen she became addicted to binging and purging behavior, and it resulted in an 8-year hidden battle until she hit her last bottom at the age of 22. A chance encounter at a self-help compulsive eater group with a recovering bulimic named "Betsy" gave Caroline the hope she needed to start her journey of recovery one day at a time in 1984. Ultimately, Caroline's story became the international bestseller My Name is Caroline (Doubleday 1988), and was the first autobiography to give others hope that recovery was possible. Caroline's courage has been credited with creating more open dialogue between sufferers and their loved ones, and was followed up in 2013 with Positively Caroline (Cogent 2013) about her unbroken decades of recovery. She remains passionate about helping others overcome eating disorders and addiction, and has spoken as part of sessions for the Child Mind Center NYC, Project Heal, the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD), and more.

Caroline is also known as the founder of ‘The Awethentic Effect' which explains the infectious impact of witnessing or hearing about someone accomplishing a hard goal. And she pioneered the #Share222 movement which encourages women to share other women's stories of success on two social media platforms at least twice a week as a way bring light to the accomplishments of women in order to build each other up.

AUTHOR
Caroline is the author of six books, including the bestselling My Name is Caroline (Doubleday 1988), which was an Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild, and Positively Caroline (Cogent 2013), its sequel. Creating Your Best Life (Sterling 2009), is the first mass market self-help book on the science of happiness and how it intersects with the science of accomplishing goals. It is popular in the mass market and is also used as a textbook in numerous coaching and Positive Psychology classes around the world. The "father of Positive Psychology," Martin Seligman, lauded Caroline's scholarship in his book Flourish, noting that she had "added a major missing piece to the world of coaching" because of her ground-breaking and evidence-based connection between Positive Psychology and success. Her workbook, Your Happiest Life, is a four-week guide to help users learn how to set and accomplish goals in a step-by-step way through science-based activities and proven techniques. Caroline's newest book, Getting Grit (Sounds True 2017), discusses why the character strength grit is so important to a flourishing life, who has it, and how to cultivate, amplify, and teach it. Live Happy Magazine named Creating Your Best Life one of the top 10 goal setting books ever published and Getting Grit one of the 10 books that would change your life in 2017. Caroline's books have been translated into German, Korean, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Italian.

MEDIA PERSONALITY
Caroline's work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, newspapers and other media around the world including BBC World News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, NPR, CNN, and more. She was the first Positive Psychology expert to bring coaching and happiness to satellite radio via XM with her "Positive Tip of the Day."

PROFESSIONAL COACH
For two decades, Caroline has coached hundreds of individuals, from senior executives to professional athletes, and parents to politicians on how to identify their character strengths, get more grit and achieve their goals. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation. In 2015, Caroline was named "one of the 10 Positive Psychology coaches to follow."

PERSONAL LIFE
Caroline is a top-ranked Masters Swimmer in multiple events and has a black belt in Hapkido. Caroline lives with her family in the Greater Washington, D.C. area.