Carolyn Weiss

Galvanizer
DISC Type : Id

Senior Account Director at Fifty Thousand Feet

New York City Metropolitan Area, United States

Overview

With over two decades of experience, Carolyn is a Senior Account Director at Fifty Thousand Feet, specializing in brand, experience, content, and design strategy. She has a talent for leading client engagements from startups to enterprises. People who have worked with her describe her as savvy, smart, decisive, and organized. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from New York University.

Outside of her professional life, Carolyn is a proud mother to two daughters. She actively supports her daughters involvement in softball, a passion that was once highlighted in a story on NPR.

During the pandemic, she co-designed and launched a free icebreakers app to help people connect and brighten the collective mood.

Personality Overview

Persuader

People-Oriented

Socially Adept

They are not against taking risks and can make tough decisions when required.
  They will bat for you if they come to believe in you. They are charming and can persuade others to support their decisions.

Topics They Care About

Brand & Design Strategy
Her career is centered on building timeless brands and leading client engagements in brand platform and narrative development at Fifty Thousand Feet.
Innovation Culture
While at Gensler, she was excited to launch and share a diagnostic framework designed to foster an intentional culture of innovation within organizations.
Presentation Design
She has a declared passion for good presentation design, having created and shared a "presentation design cheat sheet" and a related blog post.

Media Appearances

Carolyn has no verified media appearances

Work History

4-2025
Senior Account Director at Fifty Thousand Feet
9-2023 - 4-2025
Strategy Director at Fifty Thousand Feet
10-2021 - 5-2023
Strategy Director, Innovation & Experience Strategy at Gensler
10-2019 - 10-2021
Director of Strategy at Cloudberry Creative
11-2018 - 10-2019
Associate Director of Project Management & Studio Lead at United Technologies

Education

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from New York University

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Insights For Selling To Carolyn

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • You might need to keep the conversation on track, they tend to slide off-topic
  • Take a friendly, informal yet confident approach while pitching
  • Talk about some of the cool and impressive features of your product

DONT's

  • Don’t be excessively objective, focus on building a story first
  • Do not look like someone who doesn’t know what they are talking about
  • Do not come across as negative or non-supportive, work with them as a partner

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Carolyn is

  • Relationship and product conviction matter equally, followed by a sense of achievement.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Carolyn

  • If they are not convinced, they will say no though in a friendly way.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Carolyn move?

  • They can make decisions quickly if they develop trust in you and conviction in the product.
  • Can Carolyn take some risk or not?

  • If necessary, they will be ready to take risks.

You And Carolyn

Personality Compatibility


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