Jessica Lino
Celebrate Women’s History Month with Carla Harris on March 15, 2023 at Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts
New York, N.Y., Wednesday, March 7, 2023 – – On the campus of City College of New York, is celebrating Women’s History Month with Author, Motivational Speaker, Carla A. Harris, a discussion, Q&A and book signing for her new book “Lead to Win,” on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 in Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts. This special Women’s History Month celebration will feature Carla’s signature “pearls” of wisdom. Named as one of the top 40 female speakers in the world 2020, Carla engages audiences around the world with her popular “Carla’s Pearl’s” where she shares with both leaders and emerging leaders how to maximize their career success across all industries using the “hard earned and hard learned” lessons that she acquired during her Wall Street career. Her most recent book “Lead to Win,” shares her pearls of Intentional Leadership to help professionals become powerful, impactful, influential leaders in today’s challenging professional context. Carla has been named as one of the top 25 Black Board Members in the U.S. in 2023 sitting on the boards of Cummins, MetLife and Walmart 2023. This event starts at 6:00 PM EDT. RSVP for Free Tickets and available book purchase at citycollegecenterforthearts.org.
Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts
The award-winning Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts hosts an ambitious, year-round calendar of professional performances. Our mission is to provide a creative arts center and focal point for the City College of New York, building a sense of community within the College, elevating the profile of Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts in the greater New York area, and connecting the College to the surrounding community through the arts.
The 630 seat Marian Anderson Theatre is the largest theatre in Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts. It was dedicated in 1993 with a tremendous ceremony featuring Harry Belafonte, Jessye Norman, Max Roach, Martina Arroyo, Arthur Mitchell with members of Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Phylicia Rashad.
Marian Anderson is remembered as one of the best American contraltos of all time. She was the first African American singer to perform at the White House and also the first African American to sing with New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Ms. Anderson’s achievements, which inspired generations of young black performers, also included a concert before 75,000 listeners at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 arranged by Eleanor Roosevelt after the Daughters of the American Revolution denied the singer the use of the concert hall in their national headquarters.
About Carla Harris:
Carla Harris is a renowned international public speaker and is also a Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley. She was most recently the Vice Chairman responsible for increasing client connectivity and penetration to enhance revenue generation across the firm. In her 30+ year career as an investment banker, Ms. Harris has had extensive industry experiences in the technology, media, retail, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and healthcare sectors. She is highly regarded as a motivator, executor and leader. In August 2013, Carla Harris was appointed by President Barack Obama to chair the National Women’s Business Council.
Named as one of the Top 40 Female Speakers in the World in 2020, Carla engages audiences around the world with her popular “Carla’s Pearls” where she shares with both leaders and emerging leaders how to maximize their career success across all industries using the “hard earned and hard learned” lessons
that she acquired during her Wall Street Career. Her most recent book, Lead To Win, shares her pearls of Intentional Leadership to help professionals become powerful, impactful, influential leaders into today’s challenging professional context.
Carla has been named to Fortune Magazine’s list of “The 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America”, Fortune’s Most Influential List, U. S. Bankers Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance(2009, 2010, 2011), Black Enterprise’s Top 75 Most Powerful Women in Business (2017), and “Top 75 African Americans on Wall Street”, and to Essence Magazine’s list of “The 50 Women Who are Shaping the World”, Ebony’s list of the Power 100 and many more. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Fast Money, Barrons and many other publications.
In her other life, Carla is a singer who has sold out concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theatre, and released 4 Gospel CDs:“O This is Christmas” (2021) “Unceasing Praise” (2011), “Joy Is Waiting”(2005), and her first CD entitled, “Carla’s First Christmas”(2000), was a bestseller on Amazon.com in New York and was featured on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather in his “American Dream” segment.