As a coach and facilitator, Carol creates a safe environment to explore options and build self-awareness, respecting your point of view, while challenging you to look beyond your perspective. Carol listens without judgment and makes emotional vulnerability and awareness accessible to the practical, analytical mind. She leads with compassion, while expecting you to hold yourself accountable for following through on your commitment to growth.


Having held executive leadership positions in operations, strategy and business winning, she understands the challenges inherent in balancing strategy with execution, high performance with efficiency and an ever-increasing workload with self-care.  Carol brings the work and life experience to fully understand and help guide you through a practical, realistic action plan, moving you beyond textbook solutions to real transformation.


She is experienced in coaching senior leaders, and having worked as an executive, understands the drivers and challenges inherent in leadership at that level.   She is skilled at working with leaders, teams and individuals moving through change, enabling leadership and teams to leverage their combined potential and empowering individuals to move beyond barriers to growth. She also has experience facilitating growth for leaders and individuals seeking to move from a directive, top-down style to a more inclusive, facilitative style.


Carol currently provides coaching and facilitation at all levels of leadership, and to non-leaders, within a variety of government, defense industry and commercial clients.  She facilitates tailored and open enrollment courses focused on increasing self-awareness, resolving identified development needs, building trust, enhancing innovation and creativity, improving organizational culture and increasing individual and organizational courage and resilience.



Having moved up through the ranks to executive positions, she also understands the challenges of leading at different supervisory levels, having personnel located at remote sites, managing deployed personnel and maintaining organizational engagement of personnel embedded with another organization.


Carol highly values personal growth and is on a mission of life-long learning.  She is a Leadership Coach, Organizational Culture Strategist and Instructor, certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Green Belt with over 20 years of experience, including time as an officer in the US Navy, as an executive in a large defense contracting company and as the owner and CEO of Opelion LLC, a Woman/Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small business.  


She is a credentialed coach through the International Coaching Federation and is certified to administer the following assessments:  Hogan, EQ-i 2.0 (Emotional Intelligence), Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ (MBTI), and the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation™ Business (FIRO-B), as well as the following 360 instruments: EQ-360, Leadership Versatility Indicator and OPM 360; and to deliver the Daring Way™, Rising Strong™, Dare to Lead and Immunity to Change™ curricula.




Carol Robert, PCC, CDWF, CDTLF, PMP, is a Leadership Coach, Organizational Culture Strategist and Instructor, certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Six Sigma Green Belt with over 24 years of experience in Executive Leadership, Strategy, Project, Program and Operations Management.