I want to hire Dr. Carla to speak at my event…
A highly sought-after, dynamic, and memorable educator, speaker, and master facilitator, Dr. Carla speaks to women, youth (pre-teens and teens), college students, parents, educators, and youth-serving professionals at schools, universities, conferences, community-based organizations and corporations around the United States. From lecturing to faculty and students at Stanford University to leading transformational assemblies and workshops for youth and educators at schools, she has spoken at a wide range of institutions and is highly skilled at engaging audiences from diverse backgrounds.
For more information about how to book Dr. Carla for a keynote, presentation, workshop, appearance, or performance, please visit her speaking page.
I want to hire Dr. Carla to guide my daughter through her teenage years….
Dr. Carla is an educator, public health scholar, and adolescent health and behavior expert who has spent more than two decades helping ambitious girls and young women thrive during adolescence and beyond. She is a world-class transformational leadership coach who has educated, mentored, and inspired youth for decades (since her teenage years). As one of the first certified personal development coaches specializing in teen girls, she opened her private coaching practice in 2009, where she serves an international clientele and provides personalized coaching and expert guidance to a limited number of parents and students each year.
She uses a unique blend of transformational coaching methods informed by research and practices in health behavior and health education, positive psychology, and social and emotional learning, to facilitate self-empowerment. Building on her personal challenges as a gifted and talented student and extensive experience working with student leaders, Dr. Carla is passionate about helping ambitious, gifted, and high-achieving young women and girl leaders thrive during adolescence and beyond.
She also leads one-of-a-kind educational and transformational personal development workshops for adolescent girls and gender-expansive youth.
Parents interested in working with Dr. Carla are invited to visit the Contact page to inquire about current availability.
I want to work with Dr. Carla to strengthen my youth-serving organization, programs, or impact.

Dr. Carla with A Heart for Girls™ Mastermind clients in Atlanta, GA.
For more than a decade, Dr. Carla advised educators, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, mental health professionals, and other women committed to improving the lives of girls around the globe. Through leadership development, capacity building, strategic business education, and mentoring, she helped participants strengthen their organizations, educational programs, facilitation and speaking skills, and overall impact.
Building on her pioneering work in girls’ development and public health, Dr. Carla created several innovative initiatives, including the A Heart for Girls™ Business Academy, the A Heart for Girls™ Collective, and The Business of Empowering Girls, one of the first training programs designed specifically to help women build sustainable, mission-driven careers serving girls. Through one-on-one mentoring, mastermind programs, professional development trainings, and group coaching, she helped participants expand their expertise, influence, and long-term sustainability while creating meaningful change in the lives of girls.
Today, Dr. Carla continues to provide strategic consulting, leadership development, facilitation training, and business intensives for a select number of organizations and mission-driven professionals by invitation or application.
Organizations and professionals interested in consulting, leadership development, or business intensives are invited to visit the Contact page to inquire about current availability.
I want to interview Dr. Carla for a book, news article, TV show, etc…
Thank you for your interest in featuring Dr. Carla. Her work has been published and highlighted in academic books, studied at post-secondary institutions around the world, and featured as an expert in local and national media outlets and popular web sites including The New York Times, Reuters, Fast Company, Woman’s Day, Ebony, Heart & Soul Magazine, Yahoo! Parenting and Daughters. She has also been interviewed on morning shows and television networks around the United States, including NBC and CBS.
Please visit Dr. Carla’s press page

