Member since June 2022
Carrie Clark is a Strategic Presence & Performance Catalyst who helps organizations recover the 'Silence Tax'—the massive hidden costs created when teams prioritize Surface-Level Alignment over critical truth. With over 25 years of corporate leadership experience, Carrie helps executives move past Conflict Avoidance to build cultures of Strategic Candor. She transforms 'polite compliance' into High-Velocity Performance, ensuring the best ideas—and the most critical risks—are actually heard by those who need to hear them.
High-Velocity Decision Making | Strategic Candor | Recovering the Silence Tax | Building Cultures of Critical Truth | Radical Transparency in Leadership
I once walked past a colleague’s office that was physically overflowing with silent auction gifts—baskets, ribbons, and boxes everywhere. She was drowning in the extra work, and when I asked how she was doing, she joked through her teeth that she needed to get 'No' tattooed on her forehead just to survive the week. We laughed, but it was a radical, visual example of the Silence Tax in action. She was prioritizing 'polite compliance' to a committee over her own high-impact projects. I helped her realize that without Strategic Advocacy, her silence was a bottleneck for her personal as well as the entire organization’s goals. We traded the 'forehead tattoo' for Strategic Candor, reinvesting her time where it actually moved the needle.
In 2015, while climbing the corporate ladder in a senior leadership role, I hit a startling realization: our greatest failures weren't coming from lack of talent, but from Surface-Level Alignment. I saw brilliant ideas die in meetings because we prioritized 'getting along' over getting it right. I became a certified professional coach to solve this 'Silence Tax' and equip leaders with the Strategic Presence needed to turn hesitation into high-performance action
High-stakes decisions are often made with only 50% of the available data because team members prioritize 'getting along' over voicing critical risks. In this high-impact session, Carrie reveals how to move beyond Artificial Harmony to build a culture of Strategic Candor.
Key Takeways:
- Having Your Own Back
- Creating Your Unique Roadmap
- Operation - Showcase YOU
- Which communication style is best?
- Building trust
- Going from transactional to integrated partner
- Using "I don't know" to gain credibility
THE COMMUNICATION MASTERY METHOD
- A proven process to create trust and strengthen team collaboration
- How to communicate effectively in order to harness the win-win in all situations
- A crucial step to improve listening skills so you can collectively increase productivity and profits
I once walked past a colleague’s office that was physically overflowing with silent auction gifts—baskets, ribbons, and boxes everywhere. She was drowning in the extra work, and when I asked how she was doing, she joked through her teeth that she needed to get 'No' tattooed on her forehead just to survive the week. We laughed, but it was a radical, visual example of the Silence Tax in action. She was prioritizing 'polite compliance' to a committee over her own high-impact projects. I helped her realize that without Strategic Advocacy, her silence was a bottleneck for her personal as well as the entire organization’s goals. We traded the 'forehead tattoo' for Strategic Candor, reinvesting her time where it actually moved the needle.
In 2015, while climbing the corporate ladder in a senior leadership role, I hit a startling realization: our greatest failures weren't coming from lack of talent, but from Surface-Level Alignment. I saw brilliant ideas die in meetings because we prioritized 'getting along' over getting it right. I became a certified professional coach to solve this 'Silence Tax' and equip leaders with the Strategic Presence needed to turn hesitation into high-performance action
High-stakes decisions are often made with only 50% of the available data because team members prioritize 'getting along' over voicing critical risks. In this high-impact session, Carrie reveals how to move beyond Artificial Harmony to build a culture of Strategic Candor.
Key Takeways:
- Having Your Own Back
- Creating Your Unique Roadmap
- Operation - Showcase YOU
- Which communication style is best?
- Building trust
- Going from transactional to integrated partner
- Using "I don't know" to gain credibility
THE COMMUNICATION MASTERY METHOD
- A proven process to create trust and strengthen team collaboration
- How to communicate effectively in order to harness the win-win in all situations
- A crucial step to improve listening skills so you can collectively increase productivity and profits