Create a cohesive workplace culture by evolving leadership
The world is changing faster than ever, bringing more uncertainty. Leading teams and organizations to their full potential has never been more challenging. Today’s best practices can’t meet tomorrow’s demands. In this new reality, leaders must navigate shifting business needs and deeply rooted human dynamics. Each person brings their own values, expectations, and ways of communicating - patterns we call Generational Conditioning®. Left unexamined, these patterns deepen silos, stifle innovation, and erode trust.
What holds leaders back isn’t a lack of information - it’s identity inertia: unconscious habits that once fueled success but now quietly limit it. Breakthrough doesn’t come from adding more. It comes from unlearning what no longer serves and stepping boldly into who they need to become next.
Our Approach: The Unlearning Advantage™
Carolina is a scientist by training with years of experience in academia and the pharmaceutical industry, where she researched what drives and disrupts behavior change. She discovered that people don’t resist change because they lack information; they resist because they’re attached to the habits that define who they are.
Through The Unlearning Advantage™, Carolina helps leaders and teams move beyond surface-level behavior change to achieve true identity-level transformation. Her proprietary assessment identifies what needs to be unlearned across 12 critical leadership competencies, and her POCA™ Model for Unlearning (Pause. Observe. Choose. Act.) serves as the core framework to guide leaders in interrupting outdated patterns and leading with greater intention and impact.
When leaders let go of the habits that no longer serve them, they don’t just adapt to change — they become catalysts for it. They align teams and accelerate culture; not by adding more, but by clearing what’s in the way.
And the results speak for themselves: deeper connections, stronger engagement, and tangible shifts in leadership effectiveness and team performance. Transformation that starts within and scales across the organization.
Inspired by the word "poca", which means "small" in Spanish, The POCA Model for Unlearning centers on recognizing the importance of small incremental steps in the unlearning processs.
TESTIMONIALS
"Through our partnership with Carolina in designing and implementing our Leadership Academy for senior leaders and middle managers, we have experienced tangible results with our people and our organization. We have a deeper sense of awareness that has elevated how we do everything, from our communication to our teamwork to how we engage with those we serve. “
Mike Terzian
CEO, Foothill Credit Union
"Carolina has been working with the Port of San Diego since 2019 as a trainer for our flagship Leadership Academy, as an executive coach and as a team coach for our executive team. We value her thought partnership and the contributions she continues to make to the organization."
Elba Gomez
Chief Adminstration Officer, Port of San Diego
"We have been working with Carolina on a leadership academy for our executive team and our staff that has been heightening our self-awareness, strengthening our competencies in the diversity, equity and inclusion space and building a better culture for our organization. We are excited about the work and the engagement we've been experiencing as a result."
Stephan Tucker
General Manager, Water Replenishment District (WRD)
"Carolina has facilitated leadership development programming at Pasadena City College since 2022. Through her expansive knowledge related to organizations, leadership, communication, and DEI, and her unique capacity for facilitating group learning, Carolina has helped our leaders think about their practice from new angles and enhance their skillsets in meaningful ways. We are so appreciative of her contributions and the authenticity she brings to this work."
Jason Robinson
Director of Professional and Organizational Development, Pasadena City College
Conscious Leadership Partners, founded by Carolina Caro, is on a mission to reimagine leadership, and unify culture, one unlearned habit at a time.
CONTACT
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646.229.4898
Pasadena, CA 91104
