That is the Connie Carter Forum. We are not here to be seen. We are here to see . To see the gaps. To see the quiet ones. To see the future not as a threat, but as a table we are still building.â Before you leave today, you are invited to the Pledge Wall â a simple wooden board where Connieâs first team nailed their promises in 1987. Write one action you will take in the next thirty days that embodies her spirit. It does not have to be grand. It just has to be real.
Connie famously kept a âgreen bookâ â a ledger of every young professional she sponsored. Session Two features a panel of five former protĂ©gĂ©s, now C-suite executives, who will reveal the specific, often uncomfortable, advice that changed their trajectories.
Welcome to the Connie Carter Forum.
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Connie believed that innovation without ethics is just chaos. Our afternoon workshop, âThe Carter Compass,â introduces a new ethical framework for AI integration and resource allocation, directly adapted from her unpublished 2019 manuscripts. A Note on the Space As you walk the hall, you will notice the Connie Corners â small, round tables with no assigned seating and a single question card in the center. Connie hated podiums and PowerPoint slides. She believed the best ideas came from proximity and vulnerability. Please, take a card. Write a new question. Leave it for the next person. Opening Keynote Excerpt (Delivered by Dr. Mira Harden, long-time friend and economist) âConnie once stopped a $40 million merger because the caterer for the signing lunch wasnât given a chair at the planning table. People laughed. They thought it was about sandwiches. It wasnât. It was about visibility. She said, âIf you canât see the person feeding you, you canât see the person buying from you.â