Caroline Mauldin Dhane is an executive coach, facilitator, and organizational consultant specializing in complex organizational dynamics and complicated strategic narratives. As an advisor to senior leaders and teams across corporate and social impact sectors, her practice is grounded in empathy, inclusion, and efficiency; in other words, how we create space for individuals to show up with integrity and how we deploy our personal and collective resources to their highest and best use.
Caroline’s insights on leadership and organizational behavior stem from a career of learning from and advising senior executives and public officials around the world. From an early career at respected social impact organizations like Accion and the Omidyar Network, to serving as a Speechwriter and Special Assistant at the U.S. Department of State, to leading a statewide foundation for public education, she has worked with private and public sector leaders across the United States, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.
In addition to her leadership consulting practice, Happy & Bennett, Caroline is also a co-founder of the Southern Equity Collective LLC (SEq), a majority Black-, female-owned, multi-racial firm specializing in inclusive leadership and equity-centered organizational transformation.
Caroline’s work has been featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Economist, CNN.com, The USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Post & Courier, and The State Newspaper. She holds a MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she was a Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, and a BA in International Relations, cum laude, from Tufts University.
Based in Atlanta, Caroline is proud to serve as Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy of South Carolina, where she was raised. She was also a founding board member of Charleston Legal Access, a nonprofit law firm serving low-income clients, and is a fellow with the Truman National Security Project and the British American Project.