2022 INSIGHTS FROM CARLA HARRIS February 14, 2022Business Articles, Events, Expert Blogs, Featured, Speaker ProfilesOff

Meet Pink’s Featured Speaker

PINK’s Signature Spring Empowerment Event featuring Carla Harris is pretty sure to knock your socks off—like she did for the four-and-a-half million who watched her TED video. The Vice Chairman, Managing Director and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley literally, wrote the book(s!) on advocacy building and success; Strategize to Win (2014), Expect to Win (2009) and Lead To Win coming out this fall.

She sings about this stuff. Her gospel concerts have sold out at the Apollo Theater and Carnegie Hall. Appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council, she has been a huge women’s advocate over the years.

When it comes to business, she has executed multibillion dollar transactions including the initial public offerings for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Ariba, Redback, the General Motors sub-IPO of Delphi Automotive, and the $3.2 Billion common stock transaction for Immunex Corporation, one of the largest biotechnology common stock transactions in U.S. history.

Carla HarrisCarla Harris’s work inspired the focus for the upcoming PINK Event, What’s Your Bullseye?

Here are some insights from that interview:

1. What are three, specific things women can do now to move them closer to their goals?

1) Identify your goals
2) Identify what is needed to accomplish them
3) Identify two people who can help and can connect you

2. What were the biggest obstacles for you?

Believing in the myth of meritocracy. You are not going to ascend in any organization without a sponsor.

3. What helped you break through?

Performance—and overdelivering. And having a sponsor. I knew that somebody would have to be behind closed doors arguing on my behalf.

Join Carla Harris and other top women business leaders on May 5th, 12PM EST, via livestream or live in Atlanta, for frank talk about how to redefine the life you want to live—how to live and work after the global pandemic—so you can hit the bullseye.

Click HERE for tickets and details.

Carla Harris Biography

Carla Harris is a Vice Chairman, Managing Director and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. She was most recently as a Vice Chairman responsible for increasing client connectivity and penetration to enhance revenue generation across the firm. She formerly headed the Emerging Manager Platform, the equity capital markets effort for the consumer and retail industries and was responsible for Equity Private Placements. In her 30 year career, Ms. Harris has had extensive industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors. In August 2013,

Carla Harris was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council.
For more than a decade, Ms. Harris was a senior member of the equity syndicate desk and executed such transactions as initial public offerings for UPS, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Ariba, Redback, the General Motors sub-IPO of Delphi Automotive, and the $3.2 Billion common stock transaction for Immunex Corporation, one of the largest biotechnology common stock transactions in U.S. history. Ms. Harris was named to Fortune Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America”, Fortune’s Most Influential List, U. S. Bankers Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance (2009, 2010, 2011), Black Enterprise’s Top 75 Most Powerful Women in Business (2017), and “Top 75 African Americans on Wall Street”, and to Essence Magazine’s list of “The 50 Women Who are Shaping the World”, Ebony’s list of the Power 100 and “15 Corporate Women at the Top” and was named “Woman of the Year 2004” by the Harvard Black Men’s Forum and in 2011 by the Yale Black Men’s Forum.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Carla received an MBA, Second Year Honors from Harvard Business School and an AB in economics from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude. Carla has also received Honorary Doctorates of Laws, Humanities and Business from Marymount Manhattan College, Bloomfield College, Converse College, Jacksonville University, Simmons College, the College of New Rochelle, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Babson College and Fisk University, Wake Forest University and Felician University, respectively. Carla Harris is actively involved in her community and heartily believes that “we are blessed so that we can be a blessing to someone else.”

She is the past Chair of the Board of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and of The Executive Leadership Council and sits on the boards of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), The Sesame Workshop, Mother Cabrini Foundation and is an active member of the St. Charles Gospelites of the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church and the Mark Howell Singers. She is a member of the board of overseers of Harvard University and of the board of directors of the Walmart Corporation and Cummins Corporation. Ms. Harris was co-chair of the National Social Action Commission of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. She has been named to the New Jersey Hall of Fame (2015) and has received the Bert King Award from the Harvard Business School African American Alumni Association, the 2005 Women’s Professional Achievement Award from Harvard University, the Pierre Toussaint Medallion from the Office of Black Ministry of the Archdiocese of New York, the Women of Power Award given by the National Urban League, the Women of Influence Award from The Links, Incorporated and many other awards.

In her other life, Carla is a singer who has sold out concerts at the Apollo Theatre, and released her third gospel CD “Unceasing Praise” (2011) her second CD, a gospel album titled, “Joy Is Waiting”, was featured on BET Nightly News while her first CD entitled, “Carla’s First Christmas”, was a bestseller on Amazon.com in New York and in record stores, and was featured on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather in his “American Dream” segment. She has performed 5 sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall. Carla is also the author of the books, Strategize to Win (2014) and of Expect to Win (2009) (Hudson Press) and the soon to be released, Lead To Win (2022).

Instagram: @carlaannharris
Twitter: @carlaannharris

 

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