Carole Hyatt

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox writer  | name = Carole Hyatt | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date =  | birth_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Author career development professional motivational speaker | language = English | nationality = American | ethnicity = | citizenship = | genre = | notableworks = | spouse = Gordon Hyatt | children = Ariel Hyatt | website = {{URL|www.carolehyatt.org}} }}

'''Carole Hyatt''' is an American author and career development professional. She is known for authoring several books and for developing the Leadership Forum, a program to provide leadership guidance and advice for women in executive or entrepreneurial business roles.<ref name="stiletto" />

==Personal life== Carole Hyatt is married to television producer Gordon Hyatt whom she met while they were both working at CBS in New York City.<ref name="stiletto">{{cite book |last=Ryckman |first=Pamela |title=Stiletto Network: Inside the Women's Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pu6g1qcyJW0C&q=%22carole%20hyatt%22%20%22leadership%20forum%22&pg=PA186 |access-date=April 29, 2013 |year=2013 |publisher=AMACOM Div American Mgmt Association |isbn= 978-0814432532 |page=186}}</ref> Gordon and Carole have one daughter, Ariel.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McKeon |first1=Nancy |year=1981 |title=Getting It Together at Home |journal=New York |volume=14 |issue=7 |pages=40 |publisher=New York Media, LLC |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GuYCAAAAMBAJ&q=%22carole+hyatt%22+%22new+york+magazine%22&pg=PA40 |access-date=April 28, 2013}}</ref> Carole and Gordon live in New York City and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The conservatory in their Massachusetts home has been featured in New England Home magazine for its striking gothic revival architecture.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nehomemag.com/article/massachusetts-gothic |title=Massachusetts Gothic |last1=Bodah |first1=Paula |date=July 13, 2012 |website=New England Home |publisher=Network Communications, Inc. |access-date=April 29, 2013}}</ref>

==Career==

Hyatt originally started working with women in executive and entrepreneurial positions when she formed the market and social behavior research company Hyatt Esserman Research Associates with business partner June Esserman. The research focused on children and most of the staff were women. When Esserman died in 1982, Carole sold Hyatt Esserman Research Associates and began to focus full-time on career development for women.<ref name="stiletto" /> She has led workshops and been a keynote speaker across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

===Author=== Carole Hyatt has written several books geared towards helping women reach professional success, including the best sellers ''When Smart People Fail: Rebuilding Yourself for Success'' and ''The Woman's Selling Game'', both of which have generally received critical success.

''When Smart People Fail'' was co-written with film producer Linda Gottlieb and was originally published in 1987. In describing the process that led to the publication of the book and referring to the death of June Esserman, ''Chicago Tribune'' writer Darlene Gavron stated, "To illustrate that failure can be a step toward success, Gottlieb and coauthor Carole Hyatt, 51, draw on interviews with 176 "veterans" of personal and career setbacks. ... It's a process Gottlieb and coauthor Hyatt have experienced firsthand. Fear of failure caused Hyatt to sell a successful New York marketing firm after her partner died."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1988/04/17/failure-spurs-filmmaker-on/ |title=Failure Spurs Filmmaker On |last1= Gavron |first1=Darlene |date=April 17, 1988 |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=April 29, 2013}}</ref>

In reviewing ''When Smart People Fail'', career coach Lorna Kellogg stated that the book is "both informative and practical" and praised the way that the book confronts American taboos related to success and failure.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kellogg.org/book-review.html |title=Book Reviews: When Smart People Fail, Rebuilding Yourself for Success by Carole Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb |last1=Kellogg |first1=Lorna |website=Kellogg & Associates |access-date=April 28, 2013}}</ref>

Hyatt's book ''The Woman's Selling Game'', a career guide primarily intended for self-employed and entrepreneurial women, was similarly well-received, with a ''Kirkus'' critic stating that the advice contained within the book is "[set] forth in a dear, relaxed, generally persuasive manner."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/carole-hyatt/the-womans-selling-game/ |title=THE WOMAN'S SELLING GAME By Carole Hyatt |author= |website=Kirkus Reviews |access-date=April 28, 2013}}</ref> The book reached best seller status in the United States and was also published and widely distributed in Japan and Thailand.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hyatt |first=Carole |title=Lifetime Employability: How to Become Indispensable |year=1995 |publisher=MasterMedia Publishing Corporation |isbn=1571010564}}</ref>

In 1999, McGraw-Hill Ryerson released a revised and updated version of the book called ''The New Woman's Selling Game''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hyatt |first=Carole |title=The Woman's New Selling Game: How to Sell Yourself — and Anything Else |year=1998 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Ryerson |isbn=007031828X |url=https://archive.org/details/womansnewselling00hyat }}</ref>

===The Leadership Forum=== Carole Hyatt developed the Leadership Forum, a career development initiative for women. Through the Forum, Hyatt hosts career development workshops and events focused on improving career strategies and leadership qualities for women in senior positions in various fields. Hyatt's most well-known workshop is called ''Getting to Next''. Author Lynette Lewis, who considers Hyatt her mentor, cites attending a ''Getting to Next'' workshop as instrumental in her finding success as a businesswoman working in New York City.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lewis |first=Lynette |title=Climbing the Ladder in Stilettos: 10 Strategies for Stepping Up to Success and Satisfaction at Work |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4FFk0Gqd1QcC&q=%22carole%20hyatt%22&pg=PA164 |access-date=April 28, 2013 |year=2008 |publisher=Thomas Nelson Inc |isbn= 9781418571054|pages=164–165}}</ref>

The development of the Leadership Forum and of Hyatt's career working with women in leadership roles was profiled in Pamela Ryckman's recent book ''Stiletto Network: Inside the Women's Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business''.<ref name="stiletto" />

As of 2013, Hyatt has made Leadership Forum speaking appearances in over forty countries.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://farai.com/new-adventure-career-seminar-with-carole-hyatt/ |title=New adventure — Career Seminar with Carole Hyatt |last1=Chideya |first1=Farai |date=January 21, 2013 |website=Farai.com |publisher=Farai Chideya |access-date=April 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219065005/http://farai.com/new-adventure-career-seminar-with-carole-hyatt |archive-date=February 19, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Mission: Getting to Next === In 2013, Hyatt founded Mission: Getting to Next, a non-profit organization that has established a program that brings together both civilian and military women who are in a transitional period in their lives. In establishing a network of support, retiring military servicewomen are able to apply the skills and leadership of the service to a new civilian career path. Dozens have successfully completed the program.

==Notable media appearances==

In January 2002, Carole and her daughter Ariel were featured on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', where they discussed the challenge of balancing family life and business for hardworking parents.<ref>{{cite book |last=Parkman |first=Allen |title=Smart Marriage: Using Your (Business) Head As Well As Your Heart to Find Wedded Bliss |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UvhUtJjtWfoC&q=%22carole%20hyatt%22%20oprah&pg=PA16 |access-date=April 29, 2013 |year=2007 |publisher=Praeger Publishers |location=Westport, CT |isbn= 978-0275994556 |page=16}}</ref>

Carole has also appeared on ''the Today Show'', ''Good Morning America'', and CNN.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://issuu.com/KSprague/docs/theberkshireforum2010.program/17 |title=The Berkshire Forum Program 2010 |author= |date=September 10, 2010 |website=Issuu |publisher=The Berkshire Forum |access-date=April 29, 2013}}</ref>

==Works== {| class="wikitable" style="width: 75%" |- ! Year ! Title |- | 1979 | align="left"| '''''The Woman's Selling Game: How to Sell Yourself — and Anything Else''''' * Published by Warner Books |- | 1980 | align="left"| '''''Women and Work: Honest Answers to Real Questions''''' * Published by Warner Books |- | 1987 | align="left"| '''''When Smart People Fail: Rebuilding Yourself for Success''''' * Published by Simon & Schuster * Co-written with Linda Gottlieb * Re-published by Penguin Books in 1988 * Revised and updated version published by Penguin Books in 1993 |- | 1989 | align="left"| '''''キャリアパワー''''' * Translated title: '''''Career Power''''' * Translation by Sakayori Noriko * Published in Japan by Waseda Shobo |- | 1992 | align="left"| '''''Shifting Gears: How to Master Career Change and Find the Work That's Right for You''''' * Published by Fireside Books |- | 1995 | align="left"| '''''Lifetime Employability: How to Become Indispensable''''' * Published by MasterMedia |- | 1999 | align="left"| '''''The Woman's New Selling Game: How to Sell Yourself — and Anything Else''''' * Published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson * Revised and updated edition of the book originally released in 1979 |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.carolehyatt.org/ Official website] *[http://www.mgtn.org Mission: Getting to Next] *[http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/ms3105_carole_hyatt/ Carole Hyatt Papers] at the [https://www.nyhistory.org/library New-York Historical Society]

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