Carmen Voilleque
Principal Consultant, Speaker
Carmen’s background is in education psychology, adult learning, and organizational development. She specializes in strategic planning, organizational development, leadership training and facilitation. Carmen brings over ten years of experience in developing and facilitating customized high-energy experiential learning programs. Her experience has taught her that the best development solutions are those that provide the necessary challenges, provocation and rewards for individual growth. Carmen is also a gifted professional speaker with over fifteen years of experience.
Before joining the Extreme Arts & Sciences team, Carmen spent three years directing the learning and development department for one of the largest financial institutions in the state of Oregon. There, she won recognition for bringing a fledgling training program with inexperienced staff to a level of performance that won national awards for best industry practices in leadership development, management coaching and employee training.
Her experience as a former educator in some of the Bay Area’s roughest urban high schools served to hone her experience in dealing with difficult learning and coaching challenges and tough audiences. During the years she spent working with at-risk teens, she was recognized as a star educator and learned the art of combining rigorous expectations with compassionate reinforcement to achieve success. This expertise has aided Carmen in the last ten years of her career coaching executives from the smallest nonprofit organizations to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. She brings an edgy, but humorous and professional style to her teachings, and can work with almost any individual or group.
Most recently, Carmen has been working with leaders from Microsoft, Bluetooth SIG, Travel Oregon, the Federal Judicial Center in Washington D.C., the Oregon Commission for Children and Families, and a variety of credit unions and financial institutions across the country. Carmen’s educational background includes a BA from the University of Oregon with Honors in Political Science, and a Certified Credential in Secondary Education, Community College Adult Education and Education Psychology from San Francisco State University. Carmen also attended law school at the University of San Francisco and most recently participated in an MBA program for Organizational Development with Walden University.
