Carolyn Stern

Keynote Speaker | Vancouver, British Columbia

Emotional Intelligence
Trainer & Award-winning Author of the Emotionally Strong Leader

Carolyn Stern Expertise Emotional Intelligence, Excellence & Success, Leadership Development, Personal Leadership, Resilience & Change, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership and Change, Organizational Leadership and Business Leadership.

Carolyn Stern

About Carolyn Stern

Carolyn Stern is a keynote speaker, award winning author, and certified Emotional Intelligence Expert who specializes in helping professionals get unstuck. Carolyn Stern is a successful entrepreneur who specializes in helping professionals become emotionally strong leaders. A lifelong learner and academic, Carolyn Stern is a university professor, corporate trainer, certified Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Development Expert, author, and professional speaker. She combines real-world experience as a business leader with more than two decades as a trainer and educator. Carolyn Stern’s focus and passion have been teaching emotional intelligence, leadership, and team building in the workplace. Carolyn Stern drives individuals and corporations to learn how to connect authentically, communicate effectively, and thrive collectively by interweaving emotional intelligence along the way.

Carolyn Stern Videos

Carolyn Stern | Keynote Speaker | Emotional Intelligence

Carolyn Stern Interviews & Podcasts

Improving Your Emotional Intelligence | the Social | Author Carolyn St

Health Matters: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership | Carolyn Stern O

How to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence

What is EQ & Why Does It Matter? | Emotional Intelligence Explained

Being an Emotionally Strong Leader with Carolyn Stern

What is EQ & Why Does It Matter? | Emotional Intelligence Explained

CAROLYN STERN BIOGRAPHY

Carolyn Stern is the President and CEO of an executive leadership development and emotional intelligence training firm. She is a certified Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Development Expert, Certified Speaking Professional®, corporate trainer, award-winning author, and university professor.

Since launching her book, The Emotionally Strong Leader: An Inside-Out Journey to Transformational Leadership, Carolyn has quickly gained acclaim following her appearances on The Social, CTV Your Morning, Daytime Chicago, Global TV, Slice TV, OWN, Lifetime TV, MovieTime, Prime, and Tubi.

Her book was awarded the Axiom Book Award for the Best Business Book in 2023 in the leadership category and the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the career category.  She has also been featured in various media outlets across the globe, including Forbes, Fast Company, The European Business Review, The Globe and Mail, and Inc.com.

Due to her undeniable passion for all things EQ, she also launched an expansion of her business called EI Experience, which provides executive leadership development and emotional intelligence training for all management levels and businesses of all sizes and scopes.  They offer a combination of Leadership Assessments, Private and Group Coaching Sessions, Live Training Workshops, Online Programs, Off-Site Retreats, and Inspirational Keynote Presentations in recommended packages or customized to your organization’s needs.

Carolynʼs emotional intelligence courses and modules have been adopted by top universities, and she has trained over 50,000 business leaders across the continent in highly regarded corporations.

As a professor with the School of Business at Capilano University, Carolyn pioneered the integration of Emotional Intelligence into Capilano’s business curriculum, making it one of only a few post-secondary institutions in the world to do so, following Yale’s Centre for Emotional Intelligence.

Carolyn holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Marketing, a Bachelor of Education, Business Education and a Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Primary Education from the University of British Columbia. She has also earned a Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in International Business from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and completed a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University. Lastly, she is a Certified Facilitator in the area of Emotional Intelligence with MHS Inc.

As a speaker, Carolyn takes time to dig deep and highly personalizes and customizes her presentations to meet your event’s objectives and unique requirements. She focuses on your attendees’ specific needs and leadership challenges, addressing the real issues they are experiencing in the workplace right now. Together, you will discuss which specific leadership topics to address and messages to impart, developing the perfect balance for your group. Each session can be delivered either virtually or in-person and includes an optional workbook or handout.

Carolyn Stern Topic Presentations

Carolyn Stern Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.

The Emotionally Strong Leader: Unlocking the Power of Emotional Intelligencein Leadership

The Emotionally Strong Communicator: Mastering Communication with Emotional Intelligence

The Emotionall Strong & Engaged Team: Driving Team Engagement with Emotional Intelligence

The Emotionally Strong Multi-generational Leader: Bridging Generations with Emotional Intelligence

The Emotionally Strong & Resilient Professional: Thriving in Changing Times with Emotional Intelligence

The Emotionally Strong Sales Consultant: Mastering Sales & Service with Emotional Intelligence

The Emotionally Strong Human in the Age of AI: Thriving with Ei in an Ai-driven World

Carolyn Stern Books & Articles

The Emotionally Strong Leader: an Inside-out Journey to Transformational Leadership
The Emotionally Strong Leader: an Inside-out

Author Carolyn Stern’s six-step self-coaching program is the tool that will empower you as a leader to accept that your emotions and...

6 Steps to Improving Your Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Ability
6 Steps to Improving Your Emotional Intelligence

The experts define emotional intelligence as a leader’s ability to recognize individual and team emotions, to understand their effect,...

‘emotions are Our Superpowers,’ Says Leadership Development Expert Carolyn Stern
‘emotions are Our Superpowers,’ Says

In a new and scientific way bound to turn leadership on its head, leadership development expert and professor Carolyn Stern shares in her...

Am i Being My Best Self? Building Your Emotional Intelligence at Work – It’s a Balancing Act
Am i Being My Best Self? Building Your Emotional

The archetypes of the screaming team leader, the oversharing colleague, or the coworker who never looks people in the eye are so common...

How to Navigate Awkward Family Holiday Gatherings
How to Navigate Awkward Family Holiday

"Did you gain weight?" "Are you still single?" "You look tired." "When are you having kids?" Overtly personal comments and questions by...

Carolyn Stern Speaking Testimonials

"Carolyn Stern recently presented the opening keynote at our HR Conference and Expo. Ms. Stern delivered an impactful presentation on Emotionally Strong Leadership. Conference attendees shared positive feedback, referencing her authentic, heartfelt speaking style and ability to weave personal stories into practical lessons. Carolyn’s vulnerability in sharing her own emotional intelligence journey left an impact on many. It was clear she created a powerful connection with the audience; her “meet and greet” session after the keynote had attendees lined up to make a personal connection with her. The conceptual topic of emotional intelligence was made accessible and actionable..."

Anthony Ariganello

President & CEO
CPHR BC & Yukon and CPHR Canada

"As the event manager for the annual GFOA Alberta conference, I had the pleasure of working with Carolyn Stern and her outstanding team. Carolyn’s expertise in emotional intelligence was not only evident in her powerful keynote address but also in every interaction she had with several of our delegates. From the initial planning stages to the day of the event, Carolyn’s team was exceptionally professional, responsive, and organized. Carolyn’s presentation was engaging, insightful, and highly relevant, leaving a lasting impact on our attendees. She has a unique ability to connect with the audience on a different level. The feedback from our participants was very positive,..."

Sheila Moore

Event Manager
MORCOMM PR & EVENTS, GFOA Alberta Conference 2024

"I don’t think I have the words to even sum up all the emotions I felt during your keynote at the CPHR conference. Thank you Carolyn, for your speech. I was moved to tears. Thank you for affirming the power of emotional leadership and reminding leaders like myself how powerful it is to lean into emotions and that it is OKAY to be self-aware of what we feel and to EMOTE. You really inspired me today and are an example of the leadership I want to lead. I felt validated that despite being “flowery”, I will and can always “flourish”. I look forward to your book."

Stephanie Chee

Manager, People and Culture
Panago Pizza

"Carolyn Stern has internalized the constructs and principles of emotional intelligence. She believes it so passionately, for all the right reasons. She brings that in such a compelling way that you can’t fight back, you have to embrace it."

Mike Watson

Principal
Ignite Management Services Ltd.

"In my 30+ year career, I have never experienced such profound insight into how and why I act and feel the way I do in the workplace."

Tom Hoffman

Director of Operations
Johnson Plastics

"I would definitely recommend Carolyn Stern to other companies because what we did learn about each other here… [which] made us all closer together… I really do feel like that after we had our sessions and after we started to use the work that we did together with Carolyn, it really made me feel closer to people. That is what is important to me and I think it is important to a lot of the people here."

Wade Pugh

Co-Founder, VP
Foodservice & Hospitality Division, Chewter’s Chocolates

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