Carole Hyatt

Carole Hyatt is an American author and career development professional. She is known for authoring several books and for developing the Leadership Forum, a program to provide leadership guidance and advice for women in executive or entrepreneurial business roles. Gordon and Carole have one daughter, Ariel. Carole and Gordon live in New York City and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The conservatory in their Massachusetts home has been featured in New England Home magazine for its striking gothic revival architecture.

Career

Hyatt originally started working with women in executive and entrepreneurial positions when she formed the market and social behavior research company Hyatt Esserman Research Associates with business partner June Esserman. The research focused on children and most of the staff were women. When Esserman died in 1982, Carole sold Hyatt Esserman Research Associates and began to focus full-time on career development for women.

In reviewing When Smart People Fail, career coach Lorna Kellogg stated that the book is "both informative and practical" and praised the way that the book confronts American taboos related to success and failure.

Hyatt's book The Woman's Selling Game, a career guide primarily intended for self-employed and entrepreneurial women, was similarly well-received, with a Kirkus critic stating that the advice contained within the book is "[set] forth in a dear, relaxed, generally persuasive manner." The book reached best seller status in the United States and was also published and widely distributed in Japan and Thailand.

In 1999, McGraw-Hill Ryerson released a revised and updated version of the book called The New Woman's Selling Game.

The Leadership Forum Carole Hyatt developed the Leadership Forum, a career development initiative for women. Through the Forum, Hyatt hosts career development workshops and events focused on improving career strategies and leadership qualities for women in senior positions in various fields. Hyatt's most well-known workshop is called Getting to Next. Author Lynette Lewis, who considers Hyatt her mentor, cites attending a Getting to Next workshop as instrumental in her finding success as a businesswoman working in New York City.

The development of the Leadership Forum and of Hyatt's career working with women in leadership roles was profiled in Pamela Ryckman's recent book Stiletto Network: Inside the Women's Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business.

Mission: Getting to Next In 2013, Hyatt founded Mission: Getting to Next, a non-profit organization that has established a program that brings together both civilian and military women who are in a transitional period in their lives. In establishing a network of support, retiring military servicewomen are able to apply the skills and leadership of the service to a new civilian career path. Dozens have successfully completed the program.

Notable media appearances

In January 2002, Carole and her daughter Ariel were featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where they discussed the challenge of balancing family life and business for hardworking parents.

Carole has also appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, and CNN.

Works Year Title 1979 The Woman's Selling Game: How to Sell Yourself — and Anything Else Published by Warner Books 1980 Women and Work: Honest Answers to Real Questions Published by Warner Books 1987 When Smart People Fail: Rebuilding Yourself for Success Published by Simon & Schuster Co-written with Linda Gottlieb Re-published by Penguin Books in 1988 Revised and updated version published by Penguin Books in 1993 1989 キャリアパワー Translated title: Career Power Translation by Sakayori Noriko Published in Japan by Waseda Shobo 1992 Shifting Gears: How to Master Career Change and Find the Work That's Right for You Published by Fireside Books 1995 Lifetime Employability: How to Become Indispensable Published by MasterMedia 1999 The Woman's New Selling Game: How to Sell Yourself — and Anything Else Published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Revised and updated edition of the book originally released in 1979