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Carolina Caro

THE UNLEARNING ADVANTAGE® Evolve Leadership. Align Teams. Transform Culture. ~ One unlearned pattern at a time.

Carolina is a leadership and culture keynote speaker, CEO of Conscious Leadership Partners, and creator of The Unlearning AdvantageTM, a framework that helps organizations evolve leadership, align teams, and transform culture; one unlearned pattern at a time.

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Carolina believes in the power of subtraction.

In times of uncertainty, the instinct is to add more strategies to already full plates. That tends to produce overwhelm rather than effectiveness. The real leverage point is exploring what gets in the way.

After years of coaching C-suite executives and leadership teams across industries, Carolina identified that what limits leaders is a continued reliance on identity patterns that no longer fit the demands they face today.

Her signature approach, The Unlearning Advantage®, helps leaders and organizations let go of the patterns that limit performance, erode culture, and prevent lasting change. Her work guides leaders and teams to unlearn the patterns that shape how they show up. Change sticks because it starts at the root.

A former HIV research scientist who held leadership roles at Merck and Pfizer before training as an actor at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, Carolina has lived the unlearning she asks of leaders. She set aside a known identity to discover what was possible on the other side.

She is the Founder and CEO of Conscious Leadership Partners, where she leads a team of coaches and facilitators delivering leadership academies, workshops, retreats, and executive and team coaching.

Carolina has worked with leaders at NASA, the FBI, Warner Bros., Kaiser Permanente, and McDonald's. She holds a Master of Science and a Master of Business Administration, is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP®) conferred by the National Speakers Association, and is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation.

A citizen of Canada, the United States, and the European Union, and fluent in English, Spanish, and French, she brings a global perspective to how leaders evolve beyond the patterns that once defined their success.

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Featured Keynote

Unlearning What Got You Here
Leaders today are facing more change and higher performance expectations with fewer resources to meet those demands. The strategies that once created success like doing more and moving faster are now the very things driving overwhelm and burnout.

What this moment demands is unlearning.

In an environment where doing more with less is becoming the norm, the leverage is getting better at doing less of what no longer works. Yet as uncertainty increases, leaders naturally tend to cling to familiar patterns that feel safe or that once ensured success.

This creates a growing gap between who a leader has been and who this moment requires them to become. This keynote introduces The Unlearning Advantage® as a practical framework and set of power moves for identifying the patterns that drain capacity and constrain leadership effectiveness. Leaders learn to release what is no longer serving them so they can lead at full strength without running themselves into the ground.

Ideal Audience:

Individual contributors stepping into leadership roles, emerging leaders, and high-potential professionals operating in high-demand environments who are ready to lead with greater self-awareness, intentionality, and measurable impact.

Key Learning Outcomes:
- Recognize their conditioned leadership patterns and understand how they limit performance
- Apply the POCA® Model for unlearning to interrupt those patterns and lead from intention
- Learn how to let go of outdated patterns to lead differently in fast-changing environments

ALIGNED BY DESIGN How Unlearning Builds Teams That Move as One
ALIGNED BY DESIGN How Unlearning Builds Teams That Move as One
The best teams move as one. They trust each other, they make decisions faster and they turn individual talent into collective momentum. Most teams have everything they need to perform at that level and yet, they fall short of it.

What closes this gap is unlearning.

Every team develops patterns. Some help the team perform while others get in the way, like the competition between functions, conversations no one wants to have, decisions waiting for approval, and workarounds people create just to get things done. Over time, these patterns take hold becoming the team’s norms, shaping their culture. and limiting the team’s ability to collaborate and perform at its highest level.

This keynote introduces The Unlearning Advantage® as a practical framework and a set of power moves for recognizing and unlearning the patterns that limit alignment. Participants learn to surface what normally goes unspoken, have more honest conversations, and build the kind of team identity that allows them to move as one.

Ideal Audience:

People leaders, functional heads, project leads, and cross-functional teams who are navigating complexity and ready to strengthen collaboration, clarity, and alignment by unlearning the patterns that get in the way.

Key Learning Outcomes:

Recognize the conditioned patterns that shape team dynamics and their impact

Apply the POCA® Model for Unlearning to interrupt misalignment

Choose new ways of being that cultivate stronger collaboration
CHANGE READY How Unlearning Cultivates Adaptability
CHANGE READY How Unlearning Cultivates Adaptability
In a world that never stops changing, the riskiest thing an organization can do is keep doing what it has always done. Future-focused organizations are willing to question what once worked, take thoughtful risks, and treat mistakes as valuable information rather than failure. Most already have the talent to work this way. The challenge is that old patterns get in the way.

Adaptability starts with unlearning.

Many of the systems that once created structure and clarity are now limiting change readiness. People start waiting for permission, they default to precedent even when the context has changed, their critical thinking contracts and risk feels less safe. Gradually, even highly capable teams can find themselves losing the edge to stay relevant.

This keynote introduces The Unlearning Advantage® as both a framework and a set of practical power moves for recognizing and releasing those legacy patterns. Leaders learn how to spot where “we’ve always done it” is limiting their impact. And through practical examples they discover what it takes to rebuild a culture where challenging assumptions and experimenting are part of how the work gets done.

Ideal Audience:

C-suite leaders, Senior executives, culture and people officers, transformation teams, and executive groups focused on building a culture that is reflected in everyday decisions, interactions, and outcomes.

Key Learning Outcomes:

Recognize when “we’ve always done it this way” is limiting critical thinking

Apply the POCA® Model for Unlearning to interrupt legacy patterns and ignite a more strategic approach

Learn how to build the safety that lets people take calculated risks, learn from mistakes, and innovate