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Olivia Carr

Olivia Carr is an advisor, speaker and founder with 20+ years of business and leadership experience across enterprise, not-for-profit and entrepreneurship. Her particular focus is midlife women and work.

She works with organisations on the gap between menopause policy and lived workplace experience, and speaks and writes about women, work, leadership, identity, ambition and midlife.

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Olivia Carr on stage holding Self-Made in front of a full auditorium.

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Olivia is available for interviews, commentary, podcasts, panels and conversations across her areas of work.

Midlife women at workThe changing experience of work, ambition, identity and leadership for women in midlife.
Menopause policy and workplace practiceThe gap between having a policy and creating a workplace where women actually experience what that policy promises.
Retention and progression of experienced womenWhat organisations risk when experienced women disengage, step back or leave, and what workplace practice has to do with it.
Women, leadership and ambitionHow women's relationship with work, power, responsibility and ambition can change through midlife.
Founder and operator perspectiveBusiness, brand, leadership and decision-making from the perspective of someone who has built and led businesses herself.
The Midlife TruthWhat Olivia is hearing through her ongoing qualitative witness conversations and writing with women in midlife.

About Olivia

Short bio

Olivia Carr is an advisor, speaker, founder and author with 20+ years of business and leadership experience across enterprise, not-for-profit and entrepreneurship. A former General Manager at Pacific Brands and the founder of Shhh Silk, she now works with organisations, founders and women, with a particular focus on midlife women and work. Olivia is also the creator of The Midlife Truth, an ongoing body of qualitative listening, research and writing exploring women's lived experience of midlife.

Extended bio

Olivia Carr has spent 20+ years building businesses, leading teams and working across entrepreneurship, enterprise and not-for-profit environments.

Her career has included building a national educational entertainment business, working in brand partnerships at the National Breast Cancer Foundation, serving as a General Manager at Pacific Brands and founding Shhh Silk, which she built over eleven years across ecommerce, product, partnerships, wholesale, hospitality and international markets.

Today, Olivia's work brings together commercial experience, leadership, facilitation, speaking and ongoing qualitative inquiry. Her particular focus is midlife women and work, including the gap between menopause policy and women's lived workplace experience, retention and progression of experienced women, and what organisations need to do after awareness.

She is the author of Self-Made and the creator of The Midlife Truth, an ongoing body of witness conversations, research and writing exploring what women are actually living through in the middle of their lives.

The Midlife Truth

The Midlife Truth is an ongoing body of qualitative listening, research and writing exploring what women are actually living through in the middle of their lives.

Work. Identity. Relationships. Ambition. Bodies. Belonging. Ageing. Power. And what women want from the life ahead.

The listening increasingly informs Olivia's organisational work, speaking and public commentary.

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