Own Your Epic Future with Carolyn Buck Luce

Carolyn Buck Luce

“I have been reinventing myself since I was 8, imagining what I hoped to experience and contribute, decade by decade.

This journey has given me the opportunity to be a Diplomat, Wall Street Banker, Management Consultant, Healthcare Futurist, Talent Innovator, Professor, Author, Philanthropist, Executive Coach, Wife, Mother and Mother-in-law of 11, and Grandmother of 6!”

Carolyn is the Managing Partner of Imaginal Labs, a boutique consulting firm focused on helping courageous leaders make the difference they dream of. She is also the Co-founder/Executive in Residence at the Center for Talent Innovation, guiding organizations who are committed to the full utilization of all talent. Her current passion is her coaching work as the co-leader of The Remarkable Women’s Journey, a six month coaching program for accomplished women looking to design the next chapter of their lives. She is the author of “Reimagining Healthcare: Through a Gender Lens”, published in March, 2017. She is now working on her latest book, “The Decade Game®: How Woman Can Recapture Power and Purpose at All Ages and Stages”.

Carolyn spent two decades as a Principal at E&Y, most recently as Global Life Sciences Leader responsible for serving global life sciences companies with management consulting, risk, tax and M&A solutions. She is widely regarded as a provocative and insightful thought leader with her perspectives on the future of Pharma 3.0 as the third place in the transforming health care system. She is a frequent speaker at industry and women’s network events.

Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Carolyn spent 17 years in lending, investment banking, consulting and government service. She started her career working for the US State Dept. in the Soviet Union, stationed in Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moscow.

Carolyn has served in a variety of capacities in advancing women’s leadership. In 2007 she was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg as a Commissioner of the NYC Commission on Women’s Issues. She is the co-author with Dr. Sylvia Hewlett, of multiple articles published in the Harvard Business Review, including a groundbreaking 2005 article entitled ” On Ramps and Off Ramps – Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success”.

Her passion for the transformation of the HC industry and the advancement of women came together as she was named the HBA 2012 Woman of the Year.