About Caroline Mauldin Dhane

I am an executive coach, facilitator, writer, and organizational consultant helping clients find their way through complicated narratives and complex dynamics. As an advisor to teams across social impact and corporate sectors, my practice is grounded in empathy, inclusion, and efficiency; in other words, I specialize in deploying resources to their highest and best use while creating space--through behavior and storytelling--for individuals to show up with integrity. 

My insights on leadership and organizational behavior stem from a career of learning from and advising senior executives and public officials around the world. From my early career at respected social impact organizations like Accion and the Omidyar Network, to serving as a Speechwriter and Special Assistant at the U.S. Department of State, to leading a statewide foundation for public education, I have worked with private and public sector leaders across the United States, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. At every step along the way, one lesson prevails: we do our best work when we know ourselves and understand how to bring others along with us. 

In addition to leading Happy & Bennett, I am also a co-founder of the Southern Equity Collective LLC (SEq), a majority Black-, female-owned, multi-racial firm specializing in inclusive leadership, equity-centered organizational transformation, and multi-cultural consulting for the modern workforce. 

My work has been featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Economist, CNN.com, The USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Post & Courier, and The State Newspaper. I received a MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where I was a Zuckerman Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership, and a BA in International Relations from Tufts University. 

Based in Atlanta, I am enthusiastically committed to public service. I am proud to serve as Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy of South Carolina and was a founding board member of Charleston Legal Access, a nonprofit law firm serving low-income clients. I am also a fellow with the Truman National Security Project and the British American Project. 

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