Caroline VialAdjunct Lecturer
About
Caroline Vial is a Faculty member and Leadership Development Coach at Northwestern University's Master of Science in Product Design and Development Management (MPD2). She teaches graduate coursework on leadership innovation and team flow, and facilitates the leadership development of graduate students and their capstone teams.
As a Board-Certified Executive Coach and entrepreneur, Caroline has 15+ combined years of experience supporting, building and transforming diverse innovative organizations. She is the Founder of Upward Bound Executive Coaching, where she helps leaders of innovative organizations and their teams develop and achieve their leadership goals. She holds credentials in Executive Coaching, Applied Positive Psychology in Business Coaching, Flow States, Team Coaching, and Hogan Assessments.
Additionally, she serves as an Executive Coach at the Chicago Foundation for Women, and as a Mentor and Public speaker at 1871's tech startup accelerator in Chicago.
Prior to Upward Bound, Caroline was a Founding Executive and shareholder of a woman-owned technology company located in over 10 different countries. As the executive head of business development, she ran strategic partnerships with 30 leading art and antiques organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Caroline holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University where she served as a Leadership Fellow, studied phenomenology of perception and leadership development. At Northwestern’s Graduate School and the Weinberg College of Arts and Science, she taught courses in leadership, gender studies and critical theory which have deeply informed her intersectional approach to belonging and engagement in organizational innovation.
Education
B.C.C. (Board-Certified Coach), Center for Credentialing and Education
Executive Development Program, Kellogg School of Management
Ph.D., Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University
M.A. Comparative Literature, Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris 3)
B.A. Philosophy and Italian, Middlebury College