Carol Grojean PhD

My foundation is both deep and unusually broad: a PhD in Social Systems Science and three master's degrees, joined to more than thirty years in leadership, organizational transformation, and human development, including a 22-year career at Microsoft, where I reengineered major organizations, led billion-dollar product releases, and focused deeply on culture and human potential. And then I left. For more than a decade, I studied what actually makes human beings change and hold, across five continents and dozens of cultures. Vision fasts and ceremony. Rites of passage and initiation. Neuroscience and human development. I sat with some of the wealthiest people in the world and with some of the most impoverished and found grief that no amount of wealth could touch and joy that no amount ...