About Christine
Corporate America sucks.
Change it, don't let it change you.
Christine Michel Carter knows what it’s like to battle ageism, racism, and sexism in the workplace. She knows what it’s like to work long hours, lead teams without management titles, and get paid less than male colleagues. She even knows what it’s like to interview while pregnant and pump in a bathroom stall.
It’s unfair, and it needs to stop.
Christine gets revenge as a protector and fighter for ignored women all over the world. She works to advance policies on a range of issues that affect families and women in financial, mental and emotional health spaces. She is an advisory board member of the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health, received recognition from the City of Baltimore for her commitment to community service, and received a Congressional Citation from the U.S. Senate for going “above and beyond in ensuring that Black Moms and Moms of Color have access to important health information for their children and families.”
As a best-selling author with 10+ years of experience in editorial writing, Christine is a senior contributor for Forbes and writes an award-winning blog on motherhood and professional development. Because of her bold, disruptive delivery, Christine’s been called the “mother of LinkedIn” by the New York Post. She’s also been named a “career doula,” a “working mom who’s changing the world,” an “inspiring black mom to follow,” a “mom on the move,” an “inspiring, empowering millennial mother,” and the “voice of millennial moms.” Christine has been quoted, interviewed, and profiled by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, FOX, NBC, and many more.Â
She also serves on SeekHer Foundation’s Advocacy Council to support the PepsiCo Pure Leaf “No” Grants program, which has awarded female grant winners $200,000 to close their earning wage gaps. Christine Michel Carter provides 1:1 online career coaching via Wizco, Mother Honestly, or Women in Negotiation (WIN), subscription-based working parent and caregiver support, and marketing strategy development for small businesses.
🏆Influential African American Business & Corporate Women You Should Follow on LinkedIn
🏆Top 100 Moms
🏆U.S. Senate Congressional Citation
🏆Top B2B Content Marketing Influencer To Follow
🏆National Bizwomen Headliner in Marketing and Communications
🏆Baltimore Business Journal 40 Under 40
🏆Hermes Creative Award Winner
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Nowadays, people love to be inspired by external speakers who know how to communicate their specific message in a unique and personal way. Christine Michel Carter is one of those speakers. She provides a unique perspective to global conferences and media events and has worked with dozens of major companies to enhance their employer brand among moms and moms-to-be. She is also a working parents employee resources group speaker; employees who’ve felt disconnected from work have ranked her signature mental health talk the best corporate programming event of the year.
Christine is an award-winning, high-impact leader with 15+ years of experience managing brand and marketing teams for startups and Fortune 500 companies. Her expertise lies in delivering commercially-driven content that combines the science and art of marketing. She’s acted as the brand steward and content marketer for a few companies, including Walmart and McDonald’s.
Nearly 1/3 of new working moms would like expert help from HR teams to support their professional advancement in the form of coaches. Christine helps working parents in their specific caregiving stage, so they can still do work that matters and honor this season of their lives.Â
Christine helps companies adjust the physical office to speak to women. This includes space for privacy, areas for breast-pumping and feeding, and family support.
In addition to being an angel investor in women-owned companies, Christine Michel Carter is the creator of Mompreneur and Me®, the first national mommy and me professional development networking event.
(Views expressed are her own and do not reflect any entity with which she is affiliated.)
👶🏽 For Working Parents & Caregivers
As a Forbes senior contributor, Christine writes no-holds-barred articles that make today’s employers rise to the occasion and realize that “mom skills” are transferrable. She has also interviewed many celebrity women, including Lilly Singh, Jenn Todryk, Tina Knowles-Lawson, Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Kristin Cavallari, Tonya Lewis Lee, Tika Sumpter, and La La Anthony, and more. Christine was honored to interview former Senator and the first female Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris. Christine Michel Carter also writes for other global publications including, TIME, Entrepreneur, HuffPost, Health, and Parents.
Christine Michel Carter runs the award-winning CMC blog, which is full of advice and insights from other working parents. She also produces the CMC newsletter, which has over 60,000 subscribers and is full of value-packed tips to help working parents with their career.Â
Co-hosted with Bright Horizons Chief Client and Experience Officer Priya Krishnan, Christine also hosts “The Work-Life Equation” podcast. It features candid conversations, stories, and strategies from corporate leaders, public figures, and everyday people who are putting the pieces together to make life work.
Christine offers subscription-based support, including resume writing & restructuring, LinkedIn page upgrades, mock interviews, and parental leave support.
Where women feel trapped or like they can’t speak up, Christine uses her writing to elevate their honest truths. Christine’s own best-selling children’s book Can Mommy Go To Work? was ranked as an “empowering book” and a “life-changing book to guide feminist parenting.” Her other disruptive fiction novel MOM AF was the first mom-lit fiction novel from a Black author. MOM AF was also ranked one of the top 10 inspirational books for moms.