Are you dealing with
Thirtysomething Panic?

You’re in the right place. I’m here to help you create a new road map and get in the driver’s seat of your life. 

Do you need a dynamic speaker?

My experiential, unique keynotes and workshops will help your attendees develop real-time, in-your-bones, instantly implementable soft skills growth.

Do you want a transformational group experience that will help you be who you are, do what you’re here for, and venture boldly forward?

The Lab or The Life Workshop may be exactly what you’ve been waiting for.


Welcome!

I’m here to help.

I’m Carrie Spaulding – coach, speaker, facilitator, educator, artist, nomad, improviser, and human.

Supporting you with warmth, expertise, creativity, and humor, I’m here to help you be who you are, do what you’re here for, and venture boldly forward in your work and life. 

I am proud, honored, and grateful to be trusted as:

A private coach with 14 years of experience helping people get crystal-clear on what they want and making it happen.

A globally acclaimed keynote speaker and trainer specializing in real-time, in-your-bones soft skills growth that leaves attendees empowered with instantly applicable strategies and a feeling that growth was never this much fun.

An innovative facilitator, educator, and group guide with an outside-the box approach and a powerful toolbox to help people unlock their potential with transformative experiences and real community. 

Why Work With Carrie?

In one way or another, I’ve been helping people grow and achieve their goals for more than 25 years. I’ve worked with thousands of people over many years of coaching, speaking, teaching, and training, and what I’ve found is that while we are all unique and have varied goals, there are certain competencies we all need in order to make those goals happen.

Some of these competencies can be really hard to “get at” directly. For that reason, I have been determined to develop methods and create tools to help people build these competencies in a direct, experiential, connected, and incredibly fun way. A few years ago, I set out to integrate my tools, insights, methodology, and years of experience from all of these lenses. I wanted to take the best of everything in my wheelhouse and use it to help people get the transformation they want and need. My offerings are the fruits of that labor!

What you learn and achieve using my integrated, experiential, human-centered approaches might take years to accomplish through more traditional methods—and even then you might not access some of the learning, awareness, and growth my programs are designed to facilitate.

My programs aren’t just learning about useful concepts—our work together is about actually integrating them into your internal infrastructure, so you’re calibrated to use them in any aspect of your life. I want you to have this stuff in your bones. And I want you to experience a lot of fun, lightness, and supportive connection in the process! Life can feel hard, heavy, and isolating. Learning and growth don’t have to.

Even where our goals, desires, and paths differ, there are certain things that just about all of us desire to feel and experience. My greatest goal is for you to have the tools, competencies, and permission from yourself that you need to be who you are, do what you’re here for, and venture boldly forward in your life and work. Let’s do this together. It’s gonna be fun.

First, review this information about working together one-on-one:

About Coaching with Me

Coaching FAQ

How I Became The Thirtysomething Coach

When you’re ready to get started, schedule a consultation:

Get all the information you need about hiring me as your keynote speaker here:

Speaker Sheet and Key Info

More About My Approach

Ready to hire me? Set up a time to discuss and book your program here:

Learn about the group programs and courses I offer:

The Lab

The Life Workshop

Speak!

Want to chat about whether one or more of my programs is a good fit? Let’s talk:

Lenses and Tools

I bring a wide range of experience, lenses, and tools to every coaching relationship, speaking engagement, and course. You have a choice in who you partner with to bring your goals into reality, and you deserve to work with someone who’s bringing everything she has to the table! Let’s take a peek inside my toolbox:

Professional Certified Coach

I combine top-notch training with years of previous and continuing education and 12 years of coaching experience to bring you the best service, expertise, and strategic input possible. I don’t stop learning, ever.

I hold a Professional Certified Coach credential from the International Coach Federation.

trained and earned my certification at the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching, one of the top ICF (International Coach Federation)-accredited schools. 

I have extensive experience with creatives and neurodivergent individuals.
 
I am LGBTQ-friendly.

Speaker

I believe that speeches can create real-time growth, and that every talk or workshop should be designed with both meaningful immediate outcomes and long-term impact in mind.

I’ve served as a speaker to diverse groups with a huge range of personalities, professions, ages, and backgrounds. Whether I’m speaking to an intimate group or to a huge conference hall, I want audiences to leave inspired, transformed, and ready to apply what they’ve discovered right away. That’s why I design all of my keynotes, workshops, and trainings to be:

Experiential: Attendees will grow in real time, and leave with learning “in their bones.”
Interactive: Your people will build connections, increase rapport, and learn more as a result.
Fun: Expect joy, laughter, high engagement, ideas and insights sparking, and a buzz of excitement and eagerness to use learnings.
Instantly Applicable: You won’t be left to connect the dots on your own; participants will leave with a plan to apply what they’ve learned to real world challenges and opportunities.

My keynote sessions, workshops, and trainings create change that is fast, deep, and lasting.

Facilitator and Educator

A lifetime educator with extensive training and experience in instructional design, I am well-practiced at designing and delivering learning experiences that are tailored to each group to make sure that each individual’s objectives can be addressed and achieved.

I design my programs to be accessible and relevant to different learning styles, prior knowledge, experience levels, roles, identities, and personality types, and shape them for the particular needs of each group.

I’m committed to experiential, interactive learning, because I know that we learn and grow best by moving beyond talking and listening and into doing, and that collaborative environments help us go further than we could alone. My programs build deep rapport amongst participants and invites vulnerability and courageous self-reflection in a safe and structured environment, which leads to deep discovery and real-time growth.

I’ve consistently received the feedback that I create a very safe atmosphere in
which participants feel open to take risks and step outside their comfort zones to engage fully in these experiential sessions.

Improviser

I’ve been practicing, teaching, and performing improvisation for more than two decades. Improvisation skills and concepts have given me an edge in everything I do – and I love helping my clients, audiences, and course participants get that edge, too!

In a complex, constantly changing world, I know that helping people develop their spontaneous responsiveness skills it one of the best ways I can support them in creating what they want and navigating challenges resourcefully.

Nomad

In January 2018, I embarked on a solo nomadic adventure, living, coaching, speaking, training, creating, and improvising all over the United States.

This journey proved to be the ultimate improvisation. Not only did it supercharge my own growth and expansion; it turned out to dramatically enhance my support of my coaching clients, keynote audiences, and course and workshop participants.

My nomadic adventure has honed my mastery in creating presence in the midst of disruption, fostering instant connections in a wide variety of settings, spotting and nurturing emergent opportunities, pivoting and adapting to the unexpected, embracing the “not knowing,” and finding home wherever I am.

While I’d be the first to encourage you if you wanted to go on a nomadic adventure yourself, my mission is to help you get the adventure, joy, growth, connection, and awe-inspiring discoveries from right where you are.

Artist

As a visual artist, I know the power of creativity in supporting everything we do. I use insights from my creative practice to help people dismantle perfectionism and let go of their inner critics.

You don’t have to be an artist to benefit from the permission, positive risk-taking, self-trust, intuition development, and courage that artists cultivate. Whether you consider yourself creative or not, I can help you harness the strategies I’ve learned from this lens to help you achieve your personal and professional goals.

Human

Before I took on any of these other roles, I was a human. And no matter how many roles I take on, I am a human first.

It’s hard to be a human. It can also be beautiful, and fun, and exciting. But I never lose sight of how tough it can feel.

I know how scary, uncomfortable, exciting, and overwhelming change can be. When you work with me, you’re working with someone who doesn’t forget what it’s like to be in the vulnerable place of growing and changing – because I continue to stretch out of my comfort zone on a regular basis.

While I don’t know what it’s like to be you, I do know how challenging humaning can be, and I’m here to help humans human better. I bring a deep well of empathy to our work. Each experience I have enriches my compassion and care for the people I support, and each challenge I face refreshes my humility.

We’re in this together.

Enough About Me…

I want to hear about YOU. How can I help? Get in touch so we can explore how to best work together.