Candice Carpenter OlsonSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Her debut book, Chapters: Create a Life of Exhilaration and Accomplishment in the Face of Change, was published in the fall of 2001. She is a recognized futurist on business and cultural trends.

Carpenter is a frequent public speaker who has addressed a variety of distinguished groups, including the Gartner Group, the World Economic Forum at Davos, Industry Standard, and Business Week. Carpenter delivers exciting training and effective techniques to manage both the strategic and human sides of change, drawing on her successful work with both Internet and brick-and-mortar firms.

Create a Life of Exhilaration and Accomplishment in the Face of Change investigates personal and professional change in a radically new context and offers a prescription for managing change so powerful that it will forever alter the way we live and work and can unleash new sources of professional commitment and personal balance. Change at a Faster Pace?

Staying in the Driver's Seat examines the strategic and human reasons driving fast change, as well as how to reimagine your organization, your teams, and your personal life in order to effectively navigate the ever accelerating waves of change. Radical Mentoring highlights the present corporate America's competition for and need to retain brilliant people. Carpenter delves into the?new employee?

and investigates motives. By matching an employee's work and personal interests, iVillage.com's "radical mentoring" program expedited promotion from inside and created loyalty. Business Lessons from the Front discusses what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur by drawing on Carpenter's experience developing entrepreneurial companies.

She explains what she has learnt on the front lines in both large and small organizations, from establishing infrastructure to creating a brand to the drive required to see your idea through.

Building Brand in an Accelerated Competitive Landscape investigates how large corporations can use what we have learned from the Internet to build a brand faster and cheaper than ever before, the new bond the Internet allows for with customers, and how to use the Internet's real rather than hyped qualities.