Carrie Paff

Carrie works nationally and internationally as a consultant, educator and actor. She has served Stand & Deliver clients such as Cisco, Genentech, Deloitte, Salesforce and American Express, helping people find their authentic voices by encouraging them to leap beyond their comfort zones and live in possibility. She has led workshops in innovation for the Top 500 Poland group at Stanford and coached for Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Carrie is the proud cofounder of StageWrite, a thriving non-profit building literacy through theater with inner-city elementary schoolchildren.

In addition to 15 years of leading roles in regional theater, she starred Off-Broadway as Alice in About Alice by New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin; and in Ideation, which received a Critic’s Pick from The New York Times. She can be heard in Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur, Finding Dory and the Toy Story 4 short Lamp Life.

Carrie holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Women's Studies with honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an M.A. in Educational Theatre from New York University.