The Carrelle Company

The Carrelle Company provides corporate communications consulting, executive coaching, and digital branding services to grow careers and companies.

• Executive coach on communication, executive presence, personal branding, and leading change.
• Keynote speaker on personal branding, executive presence, and leadership. 
• Author of “What Successful People Do on Social Media: A Short Guide to Boosting Your Career."

Founder, Executive Coach and Author

Albertsons Companies

Lead Corporate Communications at one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, bringing people together around the joys of food and inspiring well-being. Oversee the company's PR and media relations, internal communications, crisis and issues management, and corporate philanthropy.

SVP, Corporate Communications

University of Southern California

At the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, I teach core courses in MS programs in Digital Social Media (DSM) and Digital Media Management (DMM):

Managing Digital Media Teams and Projects
DMM 530 | 2024, 2023 & 2022

Digital Media Leadership
DMM 525 | 2022

Final Project Capstone
DSM 596 | 2023 & 2022 

Managing Technologies for Digital Media
DSM 520 | 2021 & 2020

Analytics and Research Methodology
DSM 550 | 2021

Lecturer of Communication

Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.

Serving executives and ascending professionals leading business and organizational success and change, making a positive impact on people and performance. 

Challenger, Gray & Christmas is a premier provider of Outplacement and Executive Coaching serving customer organizations across the US and around the world.

Business and Executive Coach

UCLA Anderson School of Management

Guest speaker for executive education programs on corporate governance, entrepreneurship, and leadership on the topics of creating a compelling personal brand, telling a signature story, and developing executive presence. In addition:

• Executive coach in the Leadership@Anderson program for MBA students
• Group facilitation coach for corporate leadership executive education programs
• Guest speaker and coach in the Executive MBA Program course series on Corporate Governance

Guest Speaker & Executive Coach

FIDM

In the Digital Marketing BA program, I taught Intro to Social Media and Social Media Consulting.

Faculty Member

TED Conferences

Social media isn't just about likes and followers. In my talk at TEDxYouth@PVPHS, I shared my views on social media, personal experiences, and how you can learn lifelong through social media.

TEDx Speaker

AT&T

Led marketing analytics team focused on advertising, brand health, and corporate communications, reporting to the Global Marketing Officer and the Chief Brand Officer

Delivered actionable insights to enable holistic, data-driven and enterprise-wide business decisions

Launched brand health measurement platform across 4,000 brands in 200 industries in partnership with the Brand Strategy team

Led the public relations and social media strategy and execution for one of the company's C-Suite leaders

As an inclusion advocate, spearheaded the company's Gender Equality Measure of how women and girls are portrayed in the company’s ads

Developed an Inclusion Playbook for content creators to enable the company’s goal of accurately portraying all people, including women and girls, in its content

To build marketing leaders as part of the company's future-ready vision for its people, led Marketing talent development programs in partnership with the HR team and the award-winning company university

Served on the Employee Engagement Advisory Board, contributing to the company being named to Fortune's 2018 and 2017 lists of 100 Best Companies to Work For

Spoke to employee networks and mentoring circles about career building through social media

Vice President, Marketing

DIRECTV

Corporate Communications and HR leader, driving workplace and culture transformation to entertain the future at DIRECTV, a $33-billion digital TV entertainment services provider ranked 95 in the Fortune 500

Reported to the CHRO, served as an advisor to 6 successive CEOs, and led workplace and culture transformation with a 45-member communications team in 9 locations

Led the strategic direction and management of employee communications, HR communications, corporate events, trade shows, diversity and inclusion, and corporate citizenship

Led executive communications for internal and external speaking engagements and integrated internal and external communications plans and narrative for corporate citizenship

M&A INTEGRATION PLANNING
For the AT&T acquisition of DIRECTV, served on the DIRECTV core merger integration team and also co-led corporate communications and cultural integration work streams

CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND CHANGE LEADERSHIP
Achieved leader advocacy for customer experience transformation and contributed to 18-point increase in customer net promoter score

Created an employer brand, "we entertain the future," in partnership with Talent Acquisition to attract, engage and retain top talent

Built a diversity & inclusion program on par with Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For. Increased employee resource groups to 6, with 2,000+ participants

Launched a social collaboration platform in partnership with IT. Increased productivity, innovation and engagement, while achieving nearly 90% employee adoption and introducing a CEO blog

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS
To shape corporate reputation and engage employees, supported external and internal CEO and C-Suite speaking engagements. Wrote Chairman's letter and remarks for annual report to shareholders

Designed annual CEO leadership meeting, involving extensive collaboration across the C-Suite to clarify company strategy and build cohesion and change capacity among the company's 200 top leaders

Vice President, Communications

I help people and organizations tell their stories and create the future. 

It began with my dream job leading corporate communications at a Fortune 100 dream company. 

Our employer brand was to entertain the future.

Then the company was acquired by a Fortune 10 giant. 

My dream job went away. 

But I got to pivot into marketing at the new company. 

This wouldn't have been likely at the dream company.

So I'm grateful for that opportunity.

A few years went by, and I chose to leave the corporate world in 2018 after three decades.

Well before the 2023 Wall Street Journal story on "the 60-year career,” I talked about my 30 years of corporate work followed by 30 years of entrepreneurship.

I began by consulting with people about how to boost their careers through social media, especially LinkedIn. 

I started teaching, first undergrads at FIDM and then grad students at USC.

I began speaking to organizations about personal branding, executive presence, and leadership styles.

Then I looked at my calendar. People wanted to talk about their careers. How could they:
* lead organizational change? 
* handle imposter syndrome? 
* establish a leadership brand? 
* communicate more effectively?
* create a high-performing culture? 
* navigate career change and transition?
* and many other questions that came up.

That's when I also became an executive coach. 

So here's what I do today ...

With Fortune 100 executive experience in communications and marketing, I provide corporate communications consulting, executive coaching, and digital branding services to grow careers and companies. 

As a certified executive coach and an accredited public relations professional, I help my clients develop and communicate their leadership style, personal brand, and executive presence. I also work with them to navigate change, transformation, and reinvention, and to build inclusive and high-performing cultures. 

As a keynote speaker and an author, I share my insights and expertise on leadership, personal branding, and executive presence. As a lecturer of communication at USC, I teach graduate courses in digital media management and leadership.

I hope you'll follow me on LinkedIn and engage in a conversation through my content. 

I post about #leadership #corporatecommunications #executivecoaching and #personalbranding. 

Look forward to getting to know you and your story.

Still buying more books than you finish?

There’s a name for that: tsundoku.

And yes, I’m guilty.
But I do read most of them.
Eventually.

Sundays are my reading day.
During the week, I wind down with pages from the ever-growing stack.

Where do my picks come from?
McKinsey’s annual book list.
Podcasts. Articles. Friends.
And far too many library impulse checkouts.

But one book stood out this year:
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, by Ethan Mollick.

“AI works, in many ways, as a co-intelligence,” he writes. 
“It augments, or potentially replaces, human thinking to dramatic results.”

As AI surged in 2025, Mollick's four principles became my north star:

1️⃣ Always invite AI to the table.
2️⃣ Be the human in the loop.
3️⃣ Treat AI like a person (but tell it what kind of person it is).
4️⃣ Assume this is the worst AI you will ever use.

📚 What book shaped your thinking this year?
 Let’s swap favorites.

Caroline Leach

Communications Leader in an AI-Driven World | Executive Coach for Senior Leaders | Elevating Communication, Influence and Presence | TEDx Speaker • USC Faculty

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