About: Carol Heady
- Website
- http://www.learniningandperformance.net
- Profile
- Carol Heady is founder and president of Learning and Performance Solutions, a consulting practice providing management and leadership development programs, professional skills training and business coaching to small and mid size companies. Carol brings 25 years of business experience from a diverse background including: financial services, retail, and telecommunications. One of her areas of specialization is helping professional women, women business owners and entrepreneurs further develop their leadership and business management capabilities to accelerate personal growth and improve business results. Prior to founding Learning and Performance Solutions, Carol held several corporate training and development positions at major companies including M & T Bank, MetLife, and Cablevision Systems Inc. In addition to her human resource development experience, she has an extensive customer service and operations background from a fourteen-year career with Kraft Foods. Carol obtained her M.S. in Organizational Management and Human Resource Development from Manhattanville College. She is an Adjunct Professor at Manhattanville College where she teaches a graduate course on workplace learning, and is a certified facilitator for three international training companies, Achieve Global, Omega Performance, and Development Dimensions International. Carol is Past President of the Westchester/Mid-Hudson Chapter of American Society for Training and Development. She is a member of several professional associations including: International Coach Federation, Society of Human Resources Management, Toastmasters International, and The Professional Woman Speakers Bureau. In addition, Carol is chair of the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Women’s Leadership Alliance and is a SCORE counselor for Dutchess Score in Poughkeepsie, NY. Carol is a co-author of Women as Leaders published in 2007, a dynamic twenty-five chapter book dedicated to behavior, image and professionalism for the female leader; and most recently Carol is one of fifty international consultants, seminar leaders and professional coaches to author The Baby Boomer’s Handbook for Women, powerful information on self acceptance, confidence building, and creating the life you want, published in October 2008.
