Carol is an author, publisher, graphic artist, web designer, workshop facilitator, circle facilitator and motivational speaker.  As a visionary catalyst and social activist, she envisions many ways of creating positive change in the world and takes the necessary steps to nurture the seed until it manifests into form.  Below is a chronological history of employment, board service and accomplishments, followed by a narrative bio.

EMPLOYMENT:
2005-present: Author. Most recent book:
     Simple Healing Tools on the Path to Personal Empowerment & Inner Peace
2007-2009: Editor/Producer of Emerging Paradigm Online Radio Show
2004-2009: Founding Partner in 2idi Corporation (transferred in 2009 to 1id.com)
2003-present: Free Yourself from Fear coach and process facilitator
2001-present:  Owner: Collage Keepsakes Design Company
2006-2008: Co-Founder & Co-Director Circle Connections, Inc.
2000-2004: Executive Director of Women of Vision and Action
1998-present: Partner, CustomDynamic.net Web Development Company
1997-present:  Partner, Open Heart Press Publishing Company
1993-present: Personal Empowerment Coach
1993-present: Workshop facilitator and motivational speaker
1993-1996: Co-Founder/Co-Director, Reunion Center, Pleasant Hill, CA
1993-1996: Publisher/Editor of The Beacon, Reunion's 40-page
    Quarterly Newsletter with a distribution of 5000.
1994-1996: Founder/Manager Reunion Center Feng Shui Arts Store
1988-present: Graphic Artist & Designer
1987-2002: Macintosh Computer Consultant and Trainer
1989-1993: Office Manager/MIS for an Environmental Engineering Firm in Walnut Creek, CA
1985-1989: Training Coordinator for Bank of America, Pleasant Hill, CA
1983-1985: Secretarial Pool Coordinator and Computer Trainer, Dept. of Social Services, Kenosha, WI
1981-1983: Administrative Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
1979-1981: Legal Secretary, Kenosha, WI
1977-1979: Instructor: Natural Foods Cooking, Gateway Technical Institute, Kenosha, WI

BOARD AND COMMITTEE SERVICE :

5th World Conference on Women (5WCW) Advisory Circle (2009)
RedWeb Foundation (Advisory Board, 2008-present)
Women's Global Green Action Network (Advisory Board, 2006-2008)
Valentine Peace Project (Advisory Board, 2006-present)
5th Women's World Conference (Core Team Member 2004-present)
2idi Corporation (Founding Board Member: 2004-2009)
Living Directory Trust Network (Founding Board Member: 2004-present)
Circle Connections (Co-Founder & Co-Director, 2005-2008, Advisory Board 2008-present)
Imagine Peace Candlelight Vigil Committee (a MoveOn.org nationwide initiative) (Aug. 2007)
Health Medicine Forum (Founding Board Member: 1995-96 & 2004-05, Advisory Board: 2005-06)
Athena Wisdom Exchange Mentoring Project (Steering Committee 2003-2004)
Women of Vision and Action (Board Member: 1999-2000, Executive Director: 2000-04)
We the World Advisory Board (2001-present)
Gather the Women Core Council (2001-04)
Barbara Marx Hubbard Guiding Circle of Evolutionary Circles (1994-95)
Diablo Valley Mac User Group (Founding Board Member 1987-1989, current member)
Park Plaza Home Owners Association (Board Member 1985-1988)
Chiwaukee Prairie Food Co-op (Founding Board Member 1976-1985)

EXPERIENCE & SKILLS :
Project Management, Event Planner, Graphic Artist/Designer, Web Developer/Designer, Amateur Photographer, Online Audio Editor & Producer, Forms Designer, Workshop Facilitator, Motivational Speaker, Macintosh Consultant/Trainer, publisher, writer, editor, Free Yourself from Fear process facilitator, mentor, Reiki Master-Teacher.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WOVA:
Initiated the Gather the Women Movement (2001)
Designed and Developed the WOVA and Gather the Women Websites (2000-2004)
Implemented the WOVA Online Directory (2001)
Initiated the Feminine Face of Leadership Conference (2002)
Initiated the Athena Wisdom Exchange Mentoring Project (2003)

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS :
Designed and Developed the DiabloWomensChorale website (2010)
Designed and Developed the ACIM-Archives.org website in collaboration with the Foundation for Inner Peace (2009)
Authored and Published Simple Healing Tools on the Path to Personal Empowerment and Inner Peace (2009)
Designed and developed the SimpleHealingTools.com website (2009)
Designed and developed the PersonalEmpowermentPath.com website (2009)
Redesigned the MaryMagdaleneWithin.com website (2009)
Designed & Developed the new 5WCW.org website (2009)
Designed & Developed the EllenPotthoff.com website (2008)
Redesigned & developed the ACIM.org site and new ACIM Online Store (2008)
Began development of ACIM-Archives.org (2008)
Designed and developed the HolidayGreetings.fromCarol.com website (2007)
Designed and developed the WilliamWhitson.com site (2007)
Produced the Jean Bolen CD: Urgent Message from Mother (2007)
Completely redesigned and redeveloped the 5WWC.org site (2007)
Designed "The Power of Circle Is With Us" Jewelry line for Circle Connections (2007)
Designed and developed the Jean Shinoda Bolen website (2007)
Designed and developed the Notebook Project site (2007)
Contracted to maintain and expand the OfferingsPublications.com website (2007)
Designed and developed the Richard Carlson Memorial site (Dec. 2006)
Designed and developed the Don't Sweat Inspirations online store (2006)
Designed and developed the MamaNaDada.org website (2006)
Designed and developed DreamTimeOnline website and logo (2006)
Redesigned the Millionth Circle website (2006)
Co-founded Circle Connections (2005) and designed the logo and website (2006)
Designed the Quick and Handy website (2006)
Published the Lighten Up CD (2006)
Designed the Looking Within website (2005)
Designed the Chiropractic Healing Arts logo and website (2005)
Designed the RedWeb Foundation website (2005)
Co-founder of the Centrust Paradigm and Designer/Developer of the Centrust Paradigm website (2004)
Co-founded 2idi Corporation (2004)
Designed and Developed the 5WWC Website and serve on the steering committee (2004)
Co-founded CustomDynamic.net web development company (2002)
Founded CollageKeepsakes Specialty Design Company (2001)
Authored and Published the Lighten Up Inspirations Workbook and Journal (1999)
Authored and Published the Free Yourself from Fear Booklet booklet (1998)
Published Free Yourself from Fear Audio Tape (1998)
Co-Developed the Free Yourself from Fear process (1997)
Published Web Without a Weaver: How the Internet is Shaping Our Future by Victor Grey (1997)
Published the I Love Myself Audio Tape (1997)
Initiated the Only Love Prevails World Peace Experiment (1997)
Co-Founded Open Heart Press (1996)
Published the Lighten Up Audio Tape (1995)
Developed the Lighten Up Process of Self-Healing (1993)

HOBBIES;

Photography
Collage Design
Beaded Jewelry Design
Singing (Member of Diablo Women's Chorale)
Reading and Writing (but not arithmetic :)

NARRATIVE BIO :

Prior to leaving the corporate world, Carol held a variety of jobs that helped her become an accomplished graphic artist, forms designer and skilled in many Macintosh programs.  In 1993 she quit her job with an engineering firm and co-founded an alternative healing center in Pleasant Hill, CA serving as one of its two coordinators for 3 years. During that time she also developed her Lighten Up workshop, became a Reiki Master-Teacher, was the founding publisher of the Center's 40-page quarterly newsletter (The Beacon) that built a distribution of 5000 in the San Francisco Bay Area, and founded and managed the Center's Feng Shui Arts Store. In addition, she supported herself through her graphic design and Macintosh consulting businesses.

In 1995 she and Victor Grey formed Open Heart Press and published their first audio tape, Open Your Heart and Lighten Up.  In the summer of 1996 she and Victor embarked on an 8 week cross-country Lighten Up tour presenting workshops in 20 states from California to Connecticut.  Upon returning, Carol decided to leave Reunion Center and devote her energies to building their publishing company and their Macintosh consulting business as well as developing their workshop tours.  For the next several years, their tours took them to over 100 cities in Texas, Florida, the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, the East Coast, the Southwest and Canada.  Open Heart Press soon published I Love Myself tape for children, Victor's book, Web Without a Weaver: How the Internet is Shaping Our Future, their Free Yourself from Fear booklet and audio tape (now only available as a CD), and the Lighten Up Inspirations Workbook and Journal. 

In 1997 Carol and Victor initiated the World Peace Experiment, a Hundredth Monkey approach to achieving World Peace through a shift in consciousness.  The idea came to them during one of their daily Course in Miracles meditations. 

In October of 1999 she agreed to serve on the Board of Women of Vision and Action and in March of 2000 she accepted the position of Executive Director serving in that position until March of 2004.  During that time she initiated WOVA's Online Living Directory (2001), the Feminine Face of Leadership Event in 2002, the Gather the Women global events in 2003, the Gather the Women Online Forums (2003) the Athena Wisdom Exchange (AWE) collaborative mentoring program in 2004. As part of her commitment to WOVA and the empowerment of women she also developed and designed the following websites: WOVA, Gather the Women, and two websites devoted to creating a grassroots movement for a 5th World Conference on Women:  5WWC.org and 5WCW.org.

In March of 2004 she agreed to serve as the Online Technology Director of the Health Medicine Forum and designed and developed their original website. In April of 2004 she became part of a team starting a new political movement, the Centrust Paradigm designing and developing their website. The site was shut down in May 2009 as it had accomplished its goals with the election of Barack Obama.  In September of 2004 with her husband Victor and two other partners, she co-founded 2idi Corporation, the Internet's first i-broker which was transferred to 1id in 2009. Also in 2004 Carol agreed to serve on a core team of women to promote a 5th Women's World Conference and developed a website for that purpose (5WWC.org) and a 5WWC Living Directory group that she administers. In 2009 she agreed to develop a sister site that furthered the goals of a 5th World Conference on Women (5WCW.org). She also was contracted to design and develop a new site for author Richard Carlson (dontsweat.com) that she maintained until his death in 2006. In 2005 Carol produced a Lighten Up CD, co-founded Circle Connections, and developed several new websites including the RedWeb Foundation site, Chiropractic Healing Arts site for Dr. Susan Marsters, and the Looking Within site for artist Peter Sanderson.  In 2006 Carol designed and developed several new websites and logos for various organizations including Global Fund for Healing, MamaNaDada, The Millionth Circle, Don't Sweat Inspirations Online Store, and DreamTimeOnline.com, an online radio show. In December of 2006, in response to the untimely death of Richard Carlson on December 13, 2006, Carol designed and developed the Richard Carlson Memorial site as a tribute to this beautiful man.   In 2007 she was contracted to maintain and expand the OfferingsPublications.com website, developed the Open Heart Press Online Store, hired as editor of the Emerging Paradigm Radio Show, designed and developed the JeanBolen.com site, produced the Jean Bolen Urgent Message from Mother CD, was contracted to design and develop the WilliamWhitson.com site. In 2008 she was contracted by the Foundation for Inner Peace to redesign the ACIM.org site and the new ACIM online store.  That year she also designed and developed the NotebookProject.com site, was contracted by Ann McGill to design the cover and book interior for Miracles Made Easy as well as a series of symbols and logos, and designed & developed the EllenPotthoff.com site. In 2009 Carol worked with Jean Shinoda Bolen to design a new website (5WCW.org) to move forward the idea of a United Nations sponsored 5th World Conference on Women. She was also contracted to redesign the MaryMagdaleneWithin.com website. In 2009 she published her newest book: Simple Healing Tools on the Path to Personal Empowerment and Inner Peace and designed the SimpleHealingTools.com website as a companion to the book.  She also designed and developed her Personal Empowerment Path website to promote her Empowerment Coaching services.  On Nov. 11, 2009 Carol and Victor launched the ACIM-Archives.org site that had been in development with the Foundation for Inner Peace for almost two years.

Carol has four married children: two daughters, a son, and a step-daughter, who collectively have graced her with 10 grandchildren (two granddaughters, and eight grandsons) the oldest one born in 1999.  She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Victor Grey.