Carrie Fox is the founder and CEO of Mission Partners, a women-owned strategic communications firm and Certified B Corporation that guides high-potential nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible corporations in realizing their greatest social impact. Since launching her first firm in 2004, she has guided hundreds of organizations around the world to lead with purpose, fueling organizations and their missions forward in new and more effective ways. Her signature approach to asset-based messaging—leading with a community’s strengths rather than its weaknesses—has been applied to dozens of social impact organizations, challenging stereotypes, and breaking bias in the process. Carrie served as the creative visionary behind a nationwide campaign to transform the foster care system for young people aging out of care, and she was the lead communications strategist behind a $10 million prize competition aimed at advancing global technology for more fuel-efficient vehicles. Her strategic communications work focuses deeply on issues of community— from social justice to sustainability, children’s health, higher education, and workforce development. Carrie is a founding signatory of the #WeTheChange declaration to build business for good, and a founding member of the Purpose Collaborative, a national network of communications thought-leaders and industry experts that work together to provide dynamic problem solving in touch with the current needs of today’s purpose-driven businesses. Her signature conversation series, Mission Forward, has featured Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, MacArthur Fellows, and some of the nation’s most sought-after philanthropy leaders. She is a Stevie Woman in Business Winner, a SmartCEO Washington Brava Award winner, a WWPR Woman of the Year Honoree, and a winner of PRWeek’s ’40 under 40′. Carrie graduated from Loyola University in Maryland, where she recently finished her first four-year term on the Board of Trustees.