Episode 264: Finding Your Power in Leadership with Carla Harris
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The Beyond The Business Suit podcast is BACK with season 7! After our short hiatus, we are kicking things off with an insightful conversation with the legendary, Carla Harris, a talented singer, mother, author, motivational speaker and powerful board member. This multi hyphenate powerhouse is giving us her playbook on finding and envisioning our power within our leadership. With so much experience under her belt, the gems that Carla Harris leaves behind will be sure to keep you fired up about your future and beyond!
ABOUT CARLA HARRIS:
Carla Harris is a Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. She was most recently as a Vice Chairman responsible for increasing client connectivity and penetration to enhance revenue generation across the firm. She formerly headed the Emerging Manager Platform, the equity capital markets effort for the consumer and retail industries and was responsible for Equity Private Placements. In her 30+ year career, Ms. Harris has had extensive industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors. In August 2013, Carla Harris was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council.
For more than a decade, Ms. Harris was a senior member of the equity syndicate desk and executed such transactions as initial public offerings for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Ariba, Redback, the General Motors sub-IPO of Delphi Automotive, and the $3.2 Billion common stock transaction for Immunex Corporation, one of the largest biotechnology common stock transactions in U.S. history. Ms. Harris was named to Fortune Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America”, Fortune’s Most Influential List, U. S. Bankers Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance (2009, 2010, 2011), Black Enterprise’s Top 75 Most Powerful Women in Business (2017), and “Top 75 African Americans on Wall Street”, and to Essence Magazine’s list of “The 50 Women Who are Shaping the World”, Ebony’s list of the Power 100 and “15 Corporate Women at the Top” and was named “Woman of the Year 2004” by the Harvard Black Men’s Forum and in 2011 by the Yale Black Men’s Forum.
QUOTABLES:
“I had a good support system of peer mentors. They will tell you the good, the bad and the ugly.”
“Power means being able to affect an outcome.”
“Leadership is a journey from execution to empowerment.”
“I’m a natural executor.”
“We forget our power and give it away.”
How you can connect with Carla Harris:
Website: https://carlaspearls.com
Instagram: @carlaannharris
Facebook: Carla Harris
Twitter: @carlaannharris
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