Carol E. Weisman

Carol is a keynote and workshop speaker who founded Board Builders in 1994. Carol has served on 40 boards and has been president of 9.

Carol began her professional career working with street gangs, a marvelous background for working with boards. She found the gangs better organized, with clearer expectations and a solid leadership training program. Although she doesn’t recommend any fund raising that would end in incarceration, the gangs certainly had some “creative” ideas.

Carol is the author of 11 books on fundraising, governance and philanthropy. Carol’s book “Raising Charitable Children” is in its third printing. It has been featured in the NY Times, Parade Magazine and was the cover story for Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine. Last year she wrote two books: Planned Giving Basics: The Why, the Who and the How and a book for donors called “Becoming one of the Grateful Dead, Where There’s a Will, there’s a Way. Which will be available March 18. If you ever consider writing two books in a year, she will buy you a drink or a latte and walk you off the ledge

Carol was a medical social worker at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital National Medical Center in pediatric hematology and oncology for many years.

Carol works wide range of nonprofit boards including The Princeton Medical Center, The Center for Plant Conservation, Hand in Paw in Birmingham, Alabama, the Bermuda Hospital Foundation, the Australian Day Care Association in Alice Springs, Australia and the Youthbridge Community Foundation in St. Louis where she was her donor advised fund.

Carol has been married for 43 years and has two sons and 3 grandsons. Her goal is to lose her baby weight before her oldest son turns 40.

When not speaking, training and writing, Carol trains with an elite group of plus size runners called the Chafing Dishes.