Carrie O’Neil

Engagement Manager

Carrie loves supporting people to expand their internal capacity so they can lead through greater external complexity. She partners with organizations, teams, and individuals across sectors to cultivate new awareness, skills, and practices that enable more adaptive, compassionate, and effective leadership. 

Before joining KONU, Carrie served as Adjunct Faculty and Executive Coach for the Federal Executive Institute, facilitating experiential leadership programs for senior federal leaders. She also spent 15 years in international development, leading strategy, programs, and learning initiatives for philanthropies, government agencies, and non-profits including USAID, Mercy Corps, and Hunt Alternatives Fund. Her work included managing large-scale professional development contracts, designing and facilitating global leadership programs, and advancing gender justice and inclusive governance in countries affected by conflict. 

Carrie is an ICF-certified Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. She holds an M.Ed. in Adult Development from Harvard Graduate School of Education and an MPA in Human Rights and Gender from Columbia University. 

A certified yoga teacher, Carrie grounds herself by spending time in nature making forts and fairy houses with her two daughters, reading fiction and poetry, and learning how to dance.