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Carla Harris is a renowned international public speaker and is also a Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. She was most recently the Vice Chairman responsible for increasing client connectivity and penetration to enhance revenue generation across the firm. In her 30+ year career as an investment banker, Ms. Harris has had extensive industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors. She is highly regarded as a motivator, executor and leader. In August 2013, Carla Harris was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council.

Named as one of the Top 50 speakers in the world in 2023, and one of the Top 40 female speakers in the world in 2020, Carla engages audiences around the world with her popular “Carla’s Pearls” where she shares with both leaders and emerging leaders how to maximize their career success across all industries using the “hard earned and hard learned” lessons that she acquired during her Wall Street career. Her most recent book, Lead To Win, shares her pearls of Intentional Leadership to help professionals become powerful, impactful, influential leaders into today’s challenging professional context.

Carla has been named to Fortune Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America”, Fortune’s Most Influential List, U. S. Bankers Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance, Black Enterprise’s Top 75 Most Powerful Women in Business, and “Top 75 African Americans on Wall Street”, and to Essence Magazine’s list of “The 50 Women Who are Shaping the World”, Ebony’s list of the Power 100 and many more. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Money, Barrons and many other publications.

In her other life, Carla is a singer who has sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theatre, and released 4 Gospel CDs:“O This is Christmas” (2021) “Unceasing Praise” (2011), “Joy Is Waiting”(2005), and her first CD entitled, “Carla’s First Christmas”(2000), was a bestseller on Amazon.com in New York and was featured on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather in his “American Dream” segment.

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Topics

• CARLA’S PEARLS
  Carla uses her signature “Carla’s Pearls” to discuss the components of positioning yourself to maximize your career success as a leader or individual contributor in your work environment. She explores the concepts of performance currency vs. relationship currency, managing through and creating change and how to strategically navigate any culture and cultivate impactful relationships.

• INTENTIONAL LEADERSHIP
  Millennials and Generation Zers are now the dominant populations in the workplace, and they demand table stakes, transparency, inclusivity, and feedback from their leaders. In this talk, Carla speaks about the eight pearls of intentional leadership – authenticity, building trust, clarity, creating other leaders, diversity, innovation, inclusivity, and voice as essentials for showing up as a powerful, impactful, influential leader in today’s work environment.

• PERFORMANCE VS. RELATIONSHIP CURRENCY
  Carla coined the terms, Performance Currency and Relationship Currency. In this talk she defines both terms and the value of each, illuminates the importance of having both, and identifies how to “spend” each to maximize the yield in your career. You will learn how use both currencies to optimize your success in any role and maximize your overall career success.

• Driving Competitiveness, Innovation, and Sustainability with Diversity
  In this speech, Carla speaks about the commercial imperative for DEI and delivers impactful arguments around the “why”, and “how”. She explores these questions: Why focus on Diversity and Inclusion, what are the strategies to achieve diverse workforces, how to identify bias, how to sustain a successful DEI effort, how will you know when you are “there”.

• LETTER TO MY 25 YEAR OLD SELF
  Carla gives a riveting delivery of the advice that she would give to her 25-year old self, the ambitious, fiery, confident business school graduate who was ready to take on the business and finance world with no clue about the challenges, trials, obstacles that lay ahead. This is a crowd favorite! Relatable with any professional level.

• EXPECT TO WIN
  Proven strategies that have helped Carla and that will help you to maximize your success in the seat that you are sitting in or the seat that you aspire to sit in. She will discuss the importance of perceptions in the workplace, the key relationships that you must have in order to ensure your success and the power of authenticity as your distinct competitive advantage.

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