Carol Fitzgibbons
Director, Leadership Acceleration Practice
“I believe with all have the potential to achieve our goals and be our best, and it doesn’t have to be hard. It’s about tapping into our talents and passions, exposing ourselves to new ideas and different perspectives, making intentional choices about our behaviors and actions, and practicing disciplined self-care. I love partnering with leaders as they work to do this for themselves and their teams.”
Insights
- “Developing a Consulting Mindset as a Leader,” (Crain’s Chicago Business)
Carol Fitzgibbons is a Director in Bravanti’s Leadership Acceleration practice. She has a deep passion and strong talent for helping leaders develop themselves, engage their teams, navigate change, and deliver business results.
Carol’s background includes more than 30 years of experience in consulting, corporate Human Resources, and university faculty roles. She has worked with organizations of varying sizes across multiple industries, including software, professional services, consumer products, healthcare, foodservice, manufacturing, utilities, retail, non-profit, and public sector. Carol has deep expertise in leadership development, team effectiveness, talent management, employee engagement, communications, change management and organization effectiveness.
Carol helps leaders, teams and organizations be their best by providing them with engaging leadership development programs, high-impact team effectiveness solutions, and transformational executive coaching.
Previously, Carol was the head of Organization Development for six years at CCC Information Services, a mid-sized software company. She also held internal OD/HR roles at Kraft Foods and ComEd, and consulting roles with EY, Deloitte, Andersen, and Capital H Group. Carol has been a member of the Loyola University Chicago adjunct faculty since 2007 where she designs and teaches graduate MBA courses on leadership, strategic HR, consulting, and communications. She also designs and facilitates custom corporate leadership development programs for Loyola’s Executive & Professional Education Center (EPEC) and serves as an executive coach in Loyola’s Family Business Institute and EPEC programs.
Carol holds a M.S. in HR Management from Loyola University Chicago and a B.A. in Psychology from Indiana University. She is a graduate of the CoachU Core Essentials and Advanced Corporate Coaching programs.