Carolyn Buck Luce is a gifted strategist, leader, and executive coach who has spent her career building highly effective cultures, businesses, teams, and leaders in the private and public/nonprofit sectors. A diplomat, Wall Street banker, management consultant, healthcare futurist, talent innovator, professor, author, philanthropist, and executive coach, Luce’s career journey has provided her with a unique perspective on building the “heart ware” operating system of organizations.

In her role as co-founder and managing partner of the boutique consulting firm Imaginal Labs, Luce focuses on helping leaders make the differences they dream of. She has coached some of the most remarkable women in business, civic society, and philanthropy. She is also the co-founder of Coqual, an organization whose mission is to lead groundbreaking research that leverages talent across the divides of gender, generation, geography, and culture. She has co-authored several articles in the Harvard Business Review, some of which were featured in the publication’s 2019 Must Read series on Women’s Leadership and Diversity and Inclusion. Luce is anticipating the upcoming publication of her new book EPIC!: The Women’s Power Play Book.

Luce has served in a variety of capacities in advancing women’s leadership, including past Board Chair of the New York Women’s Foundation, named Woman of the Year in 2012 by the Healthcare Women’s Business Association. In that same year, she matriculated from EY, where she was the global sector leader for EY’s business with Life Science companies. In 2007, she was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg as a commissioner of the New York City Commission on Women’s Issues.