Carly Fiorina

I’m a businesswoman and non-profit leader who knows that human potential is the one limitless resource we have. That’s why I’m committed to helping organizations deliver, adapt, and reinvent through transformational leadership.

After getting degrees in Philosophy and Medieval Studies from Stanford University – and taking one semester at UCLA to figure out law school wasn’t for me – I began my career as a secretary at a small real estate firm. I eventually found my way to AT&T where I led the spin-out of Lucent Technologies.

In 1999, I was recruited to become the CEO of Hewlett-Packard, becoming the first woman to lead a Fortune 50 company and grew HP to the 11th most profitable company in the US. During my six years at HP, we doubled revenue to $90 billion, quadrupled growth to 9 percent, and tripled the rate of innovation to 11 patents a day.

I’m now proud to chair Good360, a non-profit leader that has distributed over $7 billion in product donations to over 30,000 community charities across the US and the world; Opportunity International, the largest non-profit micro-finance lender in the world, giving out $6 billion at an average of $150 per loan and lifting millions out of poverty. As chairwoman of the American Conservative Union Foundation and the Unlocking Potential Project, I’ve traveled the country advocating for positive conservative policies to grow the economy and create opportunity.

I am resolute in my belief that the highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential in others. From an early age my mother taught me: “What you are is God’s gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift to God.”