Amy Carroll

Why organisations work with Amy Carroll

• She works on the specific moments leadership training usually skips: board challenges, negotiations that stall, team conversations that tip into defensiveness. Leaders leave with something they can apply on Monday, not a model to file.
• Her 7 Partner Mindset methodology, built on the licensed Predator, Prey or Partner model from Pat Kirkland Leadership, gives executives a usable vocabulary for power dynamics most leaders feel but cannot name.
• The client list runs through organisations that do not buy soft skills lightly: Nestle, Novartis, Cisco, UBS, Ernst and Young, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, the European Stability Mechanism.
• Thirty years across psychology, executive coaching, and psychiatric and managed-care settings give her range on human behaviour that communications trainers rarely carry.
• Recognition from Global Gurus, including a Top 20 position in the Communication category, places her among a small group of named practitioners in the field.

Biography highlights

• Author of The Ego Tango: How to Get More of What You Want More Often with Less Hassle, Using These 7 Partner Mindset Techniques
• Host of Partner Up! with Amy Carroll on VoiceAmerica Business Channel, available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify
• Ranked among Global Gurus’ Top 30 Communication Professionals, placing #18 in 2023
• Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, with a BA in Psychology
• Coaching and training clients include Nestle, Novartis, Microsoft, Cisco, UBS, Ernst and Young, Procter and Gamble, Medtronic, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, and the European Stability Mechanism
• Licenses the Predator, Prey or Partner model from Pat Kirkland Leadership Inc. and built the 7 Partner Mindset methodology on top of it

Biography

Most leadership failures happen in conversation. A board member challenges an assumption and the chief executive concedes ground she should have held. A senior partner pushes harder than the client will accept. A team leader in a performance review slips from clarity into apology. The cost is rarely dramatic, but it compounds, and it sits outside what strategy decks or standard communications training address.

Amy Carroll works on that gap. Her 7 Partner Mindset methodology, built on the licensed Predator, Prey or Partner model from Pat Kirkland Leadership, gives executives a working vocabulary for the power dynamics they feel in the room but cannot usually name. The framework draws from three decades in psychology, executive coaching, and earlier work in psychiatric and managed-care settings, which is a wider behavioural base than most communications coaches bring.

Her book, The Ego Tango, sets out the methodology through cases from the workshops she runs with multinational clients. The client list is instructive: Nestle, Novartis, Cisco, UBS, Ernst and Young, Medtronic, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations, the European Stability Mechanism. These are organisations where a senior leader’s composure under challenge is a measurable commercial asset.

She hosts Partner Up! with Amy Carroll on VoiceAmerica Business Channel, and has been named among Global Gurus’ Top 30 Communication Professionals, including a Top 20 placement in 2023. The recognition is useful context; the substance is the work itself, which is a repeatable method for holding authority when the stakes rise.

Key speaking topics

• Leadership communication under pressure
• Power and influence in senior conversations
• Executive presence and authority
• High-stakes negotiation dynamics
• Emotional intelligence for senior leaders
• Storytelling and persuasion in business
• Coaching culture and leadership development

Ideal for

• C-suite and senior leadership teams preparing for board, investor, or regulator-facing conversations
• Partners and client-facing leaders in professional services and financial services
• HR and Learning leads building executive development programmes
• Senior women navigating authority in traditionally male-dominated rooms

Audience outcomes

• A named vocabulary for the power dynamics that sit beneath difficult conversations, so leaders can diagnose what is happening in the moment
• Specific techniques from the 7 Partner Mindset model to stay composed when challenged and to influence without escalating
• A sharper read on their own default patterns under stress, including where they concede and where they overreach
• Language for feedback, negotiation, and disagreement that holds authority without damaging the relationship
• A practical sense of how senior presence is built through behaviour, not positioning