| "Leadership and Empowerment through Self-actualization" |
About the founder:
Carol Dickson-Carr is co-author of A Guide to Getting It: Purpose & Passion and creator of
the "Master Your Time and Live Your Dreams: Conversations with Creatives and Coaches Who
Get It Done!" audio series. Since 1990, she has taught and trained individuals from age 17 to 65
to understand and implement many important life lessons. From California to Florida to Texas;
four-year, community and business colleges alike, her goal has always been to have the students
leave with practical skills they did not have before they took her courses.
The idea to teach and inspire non-traditionally through speaking engagements and publishing was
actually born several years ago from her experiences as an instructor at Orange County Business
College in Anaheim, California. One of the components she taught there addressed personal and
professional development. It was particularly gratifying when she was able to reach those
students who had no belief in themselves because of the environments they were subjected to
while growing up.
A social scientist by training, she is no stranger to research, statistics, interpreting and analyzing
economic data, and the human condition. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Economics at
Southern Methodist University; she also served as an analyst for the Florida Legislature for five
years,* and has useful and investing experience to share, including the benefits and caveats of
real estate investing.
*Though the committee she worked for dealt with numbers and the tax code, one colleague there referred to her
fondly as the "committee shrink" because she thought it was important that we appreciate each other's quirks and
differences better by understanding different temperaments and preferences. In fact, she convinced most of her
coworkers from every job she had since she finished graduate school to take a personality instrument and allow her
to give an overview of some of the theories and applications after they were shown their results!
Other Vitals:
Carol Dickson-Carr is co-author of A Guide to Getting It: Purpose & Passion and creator of
the "Master Your Time and Live Your Dreams: Conversations with Creatives and Coaches Who
Get It Done!" audio series. Since 1990, she has taught and trained individuals from age 17 to 65
to understand and implement many important life lessons. From California to Florida to Texas;
four-year, community and business colleges alike, her goal has always been to have the students
leave with practical skills they did not have before they took her courses.
The idea to teach and inspire non-traditionally through speaking engagements and publishing was
actually born several years ago from her experiences as an instructor at Orange County Business
College in Anaheim, California. One of the components she taught there addressed personal and
professional development. It was particularly gratifying when she was able to reach those
students who had no belief in themselves because of the environments they were subjected to
while growing up.
A social scientist by training, she is no stranger to research, statistics, interpreting and analyzing
economic data, and the human condition. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Economics at
Southern Methodist University; she also served as an analyst for the Florida Legislature for five
years,* and has useful and investing experience to share, including the benefits and caveats of
real estate investing.
*Though the committee she worked for dealt with numbers and the tax code, one colleague there referred to her
fondly as the "committee shrink" because she thought it was important that we appreciate each other's quirks and
differences better by understanding different temperaments and preferences. In fact, she convinced most of her
coworkers from every job she had since she finished graduate school to take a personality instrument and allow her
to give an overview of some of the theories and applications after they were shown their results!
Other Vitals:
- BA, Economics with a Minor in Marketing: California State University, Bakersfield
- MA, Economics with an Emphasis in Public Finance: University of California, Santa
Barbara - Past VP of Technology, American Society of Training and Development (Tallahassee
Chapter) - VP Board Member of Empowering Women as Leaders
- Over 100 hours of Coach Training at the Thomas Leonard School of Coaching
- Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate
- Enrolled in the Six Sigma Black Belt certification program at Kaplan University
- Qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ® (MBTI®)
Here is what others have to say about Carol:
"Maintaining focus and being held accountable are key to accomplishing goals and achieving
success. Carol has the ability and the people skills to help clients stay on track and to get them
to understand the role that personal responsibility plays in their personal and professional
development. Carol has helped me tremendously by providing ideas and creative concepts that
enabled me to move into the production phase with one of my projects. Carol’s style is relaxed
and very progressive."
--Vincent T. Edwards "Mr. Speaker", Tallahassee, FL
Inspirational & Motivational Speaker
http://www.blessedenterprise.com
“I have to say that you have inspired me to seek my true self and see what is there behind what
I think should be there. You help uncover the stigmas that society seems to place on people.
You want people to reach beyond those areas. You've really encouraged me to not take what
circumstances are and go for the bigger picture, by this I mean, there is more depth to me than
what the outside looks like. I like that you make me think outside of the box, rather than what
should be thought or allowed.”
--Leah Romero, Lake Elsinor, CA
“You have an amazing ability to remember and CARE ABOUT what others would consider
trivial details concerning other peoples' lives.... in a good way, though, not in a "trivial" way--
things that aren't trivial to the person involved, but would get written off as such by others.
Those are the things that you remember and follow up on later. I see it as a function of your
compassion and caring for others, that you make the effort to remember these details because
you know they're a part of the other person, part of what makes them who they are.
Another important quality is your ability to be objective, looking at something from a different
angle and then presenting it to someone from an perspective that they may not have seen
before.”
--Debbi Heiser, Controller/Book-keeper
Portage, MI
“[Carol is] Positive, determined, *100%* professional at all times. Ready smile, able to remove
obstacles and create new solutions (and provide wise insight into the nature of certain
problems, which is *essential* to finding a solution), engaging and persuasive, but never pushy.”
–Patty McIntosh, Trainer
Mendon, VT
“Carol, you aren't limited to merely helping one find a way to deal with normal problems in
scheduling, you are wise enough to see beyond, and into the foundation of the problem. And
that sort of flexibility is needed. Intelligence is being able to give helpful advice for a concrete
problem, and you have plenty of that. But wisdom is the ability to reach beyond the concrete
problem, and pull out the observations that form the basis of the problem ( ie -one can only do
so much work in 9 hours.) And finally, compassion. You have compassion. Intelligence,
wisdom, and compassion.
I believe I was riding the curl of a nervous breakdown. I found your site as I was looking for
tips on how to best use time. I believed that my best bet was to move to the metric 100 hour
day, but I thought I would look for some time saving hints first, ‘cause that first day on the
metric system is a killer.
I never had the time to actually formulate what was bothering me. The best part was, you
actually validated me. I was thinking there had to be a way to do all this work. In fact, I WAS
doing the work of three people, so no amount of effectiveness would get the job done. So I
thank you, so much, for all that you have done for me, just by making me sit down and put it
into words. The secret of it all is that you have to ask the right questions. And you surely asked
the right questions.
As a result, a lot has happened in the last week! I got a substantial raise; got transferred to a
different office; gave nearly half of my cases to the new hire and lost most of the problem
cases in the process; got my own PERSONAL secretary, so the repetitious work is done for
me; I got the new executive office suite; and the boss brought me a watercolor of pink roses
for my office. Things are good...life is sweet. You've helped a lot, and I'm grateful. Thank you!”
--P. King, Legal Professional
Illinois
"Maintaining focus and being held accountable are key to accomplishing goals and achieving
success. Carol has the ability and the people skills to help clients stay on track and to get them
to understand the role that personal responsibility plays in their personal and professional
development. Carol has helped me tremendously by providing ideas and creative concepts that
enabled me to move into the production phase with one of my projects. Carol’s style is relaxed
and very progressive."
--Vincent T. Edwards "Mr. Speaker", Tallahassee, FL
Inspirational & Motivational Speaker
http://www.blessedenterprise.com
“I have to say that you have inspired me to seek my true self and see what is there behind what
I think should be there. You help uncover the stigmas that society seems to place on people.
You want people to reach beyond those areas. You've really encouraged me to not take what
circumstances are and go for the bigger picture, by this I mean, there is more depth to me than
what the outside looks like. I like that you make me think outside of the box, rather than what
should be thought or allowed.”
--Leah Romero, Lake Elsinor, CA
“You have an amazing ability to remember and CARE ABOUT what others would consider
trivial details concerning other peoples' lives.... in a good way, though, not in a "trivial" way--
things that aren't trivial to the person involved, but would get written off as such by others.
Those are the things that you remember and follow up on later. I see it as a function of your
compassion and caring for others, that you make the effort to remember these details because
you know they're a part of the other person, part of what makes them who they are.
Another important quality is your ability to be objective, looking at something from a different
angle and then presenting it to someone from an perspective that they may not have seen
before.”
--Debbi Heiser, Controller/Book-keeper
Portage, MI
“[Carol is] Positive, determined, *100%* professional at all times. Ready smile, able to remove
obstacles and create new solutions (and provide wise insight into the nature of certain
problems, which is *essential* to finding a solution), engaging and persuasive, but never pushy.”
–Patty McIntosh, Trainer
Mendon, VT
“Carol, you aren't limited to merely helping one find a way to deal with normal problems in
scheduling, you are wise enough to see beyond, and into the foundation of the problem. And
that sort of flexibility is needed. Intelligence is being able to give helpful advice for a concrete
problem, and you have plenty of that. But wisdom is the ability to reach beyond the concrete
problem, and pull out the observations that form the basis of the problem ( ie -one can only do
so much work in 9 hours.) And finally, compassion. You have compassion. Intelligence,
wisdom, and compassion.
I believe I was riding the curl of a nervous breakdown. I found your site as I was looking for
tips on how to best use time. I believed that my best bet was to move to the metric 100 hour
day, but I thought I would look for some time saving hints first, ‘cause that first day on the
metric system is a killer.
I never had the time to actually formulate what was bothering me. The best part was, you
actually validated me. I was thinking there had to be a way to do all this work. In fact, I WAS
doing the work of three people, so no amount of effectiveness would get the job done. So I
thank you, so much, for all that you have done for me, just by making me sit down and put it
into words. The secret of it all is that you have to ask the right questions. And you surely asked
the right questions.
As a result, a lot has happened in the last week! I got a substantial raise; got transferred to a
different office; gave nearly half of my cases to the new hire and lost most of the problem
cases in the process; got my own PERSONAL secretary, so the repetitious work is done for
me; I got the new executive office suite; and the boss brought me a watercolor of pink roses
for my office. Things are good...life is sweet. You've helped a lot, and I'm grateful. Thank you!”
--P. King, Legal Professional
Illinois
| Darryl Dickson-Carr, PhD - In-house Advisor Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University's English Department, Darryl takes very seriously the value of education and continuous personal and professional growth. He challenges his students to be their very best because he believes that everyone should work to their potential. Nothing less. |
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