Carol Cox is the founder and CEO of Speaking Your Brand®,  a coaching and training company that works with high-performing, purpose-driven women entrepreneurs and professionals to create their signature talks and thought leadership platforms.

Carol is the host of the Speaking Your Brand^® podcast and a sought-after speaker and trainer on public speaking, business storytelling, and women’s leadership.

Carol was named as one of Orlando's Women of the Year in 2021 and has been featured in Forbes. Through her company and content, her mission is to empower more women to find and use their voice, to tell the stories that need to be told, and to activate ideas for change.

Carol believes that as high-performing women, we change the paradigm, the perception of ambitious women, by more of us actively and visibly pursuing bigger, audacious goals, raising our voices and sharing our stories about what really matters – on stages, in boardrooms, in our businesses, in the media, and in our families – so others can learn from our journeys, see themselves in ours, and become leaders in their own companies and communities.

Carol teaches business and marketing classes at Full Sail University and has co-facilitated their Women’s Leadership Initiative. Carol has served on the advisory boards of weVenture, New Leaders Council, and ATHENA’s Women in Community and Public Service, and during election seasons is a political analyst on TV news. She’s a past chairperson of the Democratic Party in Seminole County (FL).

Prior to Speaking Your Brand^®, Carol founded and ran two software businesses, whose clients included Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, community organizations, and political candidates.

Carol holds a Master’s degree in History from Emory University, where she was a recipient of the Javits Fellowship for graduate study, and she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Florida with a Bachelor’s degree in History.