Rolfe Carawan

As Founder of Carawan Global Group, Rolfe Carawan understands the challenges leaders face when working with people in today’s business climate. Carawan’s expertise in human dynamics gives him the unique ability to help organizations sustain unity through change and challenging times. His winning strategies have been developed over 30 years of successfully coaching, training, and motivating people.

Speaking to organizations ranging from Fortune 500s and high-tech companies to healthcare and non-profits, Carawan has helped millions of people throughout America and audiences on four continents. Carawan uses his exceptional ability to communicate time-tested principles with humor and wit and provides keen insight on successfully transitioning people through change, transforming human behavior, building unified teams, and overcoming generational gaps. Clients include Embassy Suites, General Motors, the US Army, Lucent Technologies, GlaxoSmithKline, Consolidated Nutrition, and Wayerhaeuser. With a gift for connecting the head and the heart, Carawan’s powerful message hits home every time, and its effects are felt long after his presentation.

Inspired by his passion for relieving suffering and releasing potential, Carawan has authored and contributed to several books on the power of principled living, including "Profiles In Character" and "The Character Revolution." A man who decidedly “walks his talk,” Carawan founded and oversees a non-profit organization that has for 18 years provided families with strategies for successfully growing together, especially through the sometimes volatile transition of the teen years.

His real-world experience as Regional Sales Director for a fast-growing internet company, Campaign Manager for a Virginia Congressman, part owner in a start-up business in the Med-spa industry, associate pastor, and successful teacher, coach, and counselor gives Carawan keen insight into working with people in a variety of industries. Carawan earned his B.A. in Education and M.A. in Counseling from the College of William and Mary.

Knowing that success comes to teams and organizations that learn how to stick together through thick and thin, Carawan and his team use experiential learning methods when coaching or training leaders on creating a committed workforce, raising employee morale, effectively implementing change initiatives, and strengthening communication.