About Derick Carter
Introducing a Heart-Centered Approach
Incorporating a collaborative, heart-centered style with experiential tools and proven strategies, I guide organizations, communities and individuals to discover new ways of being and working together to become effective change agents, impact leaders and positive catalysts.
Bringing 25 years of successful experience as an advisor, facilitator, consultant, and coach, I empower clients to become the change they aspire to express in the world. Working in diverse roles as a cross-industry management consultant for Fortune 500 companies, government entities, startups, and nonprofits, I offer unique expertise in supporting organizations through periods of intense transformation, i.e., changes in leadership, scaling from early-stage to accelerated growth, and navigating IPOs, mergers, and split-ups and split-offs. Additionally, I’m a certified Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement instructor, Functional Integration practitioner, and Heart-Centered Meditation guide. Born in Japan and raised in Connecticut, I enjoy life with my wife and three children in Maryland.
“I so appreciate Derick’s presence, his vulnerability, his voice, his generous respectful listening, his leadership, and his spirit.”
— Heather Ueckert, Program Manager at REI
What is your building process?
I accompany clients on a wide variety of transformational journeys and together, we uncover their purpose, explore new possibilities, build workable paths forward, and solve challenges that inevitably arise along the way. We accomplish their goals through one-on-one and group coaching, training and customized support.
Who do you work with?
Partnering with individuals and groups committed to achieving change, I work with executives, entrepreneurs, current and future social impact leaders and change agents, elite athletes, networks, self-governing communities, caused-based groups, and committed teams that are interested in forming self-organized communities.
What are your areas of focus?
I specialize in the areas of authentic collaboration and decision making, organizational transformation, shared experiential “circle” learning, system design by experiment / experience, emerging strategy, scalable and localized open-source solutions, heart-centered leadership training, open space facilitation, and self-organization.
“Simply put, you will likely not find another practitioner in the world with the combination of integrity, knowledge, experience, and care than Derick Carter.”
— Lee Watts, strength and conditioning specialist and former NCAA D1 All-American and
US Olympic Trials qualifier
Hi, I’m Derick.
Please get in touch and introduce yourself! I look forward to meeting you. Let’s explore building your vision together.
“'Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
— Harriet Tubman