Create a cohesive multi-generational workplace by reimagining leadership
We’re trying to meet today’s leadership challenges with yesterday’s best practices.
But what if the real barrier isn’t what you haven’t learned—it’s what you’ve never questioned?
In today’s multigenerational workplace, the stakes are even higher. Each generation brings its own values, expectations, and ways of communicating. These inherited patterns—what we call Generational Conditioning®—quietly shape workplace dynamics. Left unexamined, they can deepen silos, stifle innovation, and erode trust.
Most culture-change efforts fall short because they focus on surface-level behaviors. They miss the deeper root: identity-based habits—those unconscious patterns that shape how leaders see themselves and show up.
The greatest threat to transformation isn’t ignorance.
It’s inertia.
And the path forward doesn’t begin with more learning.
It begins with unlearning what no longer serves.
Our Approach: The Unlearning Advantage™
I’m a scientist who spent years in academia and later in the pharmaceutical industry researching what drives—and disrupts—behavior change. What I discovered then, and still see today, is this: people don’t resist change because they lack information. They resist because they’re attached to the habits that define who they are.
I’ve lived this journey. From scientist, to corporate executive, to professional speaker—each reinvention required me to release habits that once brought success but no longer aligned with who I was becoming.
Real growth, I’ve learned, isn’t about piling on.
It’s about letting go.
The Unlearning Advantage™ isn’t about doing leadership differently. It’s about becoming a different kind of leader—from the inside out.
Through our proprietary assessment and framework, we help leaders and teams identify what needs to be unlearned across 12 critical leadership competencies. This isn’t surface-level behavior change—it’s a full identity recalibration.
And it’s supported by tools like the POCA™ Model for Unlearning (Pause. Observe. Choose. Act.) to help leaders interrupt outdated patterns and lead with intention.
Because lasting culture change doesn’t come from adding more—it comes from shifting the identity-based habits that hold it back.
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
