Caitlin Toombs
Education:
- Middlebury College, B.A. in Economics
Experience: As Manager of the Design Education Group at Continuum, Caitlin works closely with organizations to understand their challenges and share Continuum’s process for innovation with organizational teams. She has worked with global clients in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and consumer packaged goods. Prior to Continuum, Caitlin was part of the team at Shark Communications, an advertising and marketing firm in Burlington, VT, where she worked with clients in businesses ranging from financial services to potato chips to drive brand strategy. Caitlin has also sold water filtration systems to New York City restaurateurs for SoClear Beverages, led 100+ volunteers during a Boston Pops event on the beach in Nantucket, and helped coordinate two Nantucket Film Festivals.
Other Leadership: Middlebury College, Vermont Chapter Co-President.
At The Boda Group, Caitlin combines her experience in the innovation and marketing worlds with a deep passion for surfacing the human condition in service of authenticity. She is committed to strengthening the way corporations align, communicate, empathize, and connect.
Leadership is… passion, out loud. Great leaders are inspiring just by their passion and their way of being. Leaders hear people. They delicately balance the tension between being influenced and influencing others. The act of leading requires a strong sense of self-awareness. It’s a muscle, and great leadership takes work and practice. It requires attention and intention. And it requires passion to keep the flame burning.
One important skill I bring to my clients is... staying open to the possibilities that emerge when you carefully look at a challenge from multiple angles.
I’m inspired by... being in Vermont or Nantucket, traveling, writing, running, music, and people doing their thing.