ABOUT OUR GUEST:  

Carolyn Alessi is the Regional Director for Community Health and Well Being for Trinity Health of New England. Here she provides project and leadership support to the Joan C. Dauber Food Pantry, social care and clinical integration within the surgical service lines and safety net clinics, and has oversight of the Hospital Violence Intervention program. 

Her expertise is in seeing the “big” picture. She is strategic in her approach to partnerships, working with diverse stakeholders to rally towards a common goal, facilitating crucial conversations and producing strong outcomes from the partner’s collective work. Since being at Trinity Health Of New England, Carolyn has been instrumental in raising over $1.6M to support the programs in the Hartford market. In 2022, she received the exclusive Paradigm for Parity Women on the Rise award for her efforts to recruit 4 companies to join the Paradigm for Parity

coalition including her own organization which signed the pledge to have diversity of women represent 50% of C-Suite and Board roles over the next 5 years.

Carolyn currently holds the position as State Leader for Million Women Mentors CT Chapter, a national network that encourages women and girls to pursue and persist in STEM. During her time as State Leader, she has grown the organization from 18 members to now over 300 members within the network.

CONNECT WITH CAROLYN AND MILLION WOMEN MENTORS (MWM)

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WATCH ON YOUTUBE
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EPISODE AND EMPOWERING WOMEN IN INDUSTRY LINKS

Paradigm for Parity

Million Women Mentors

StrengthsFinder 2.0 Book

Empowering Women in Industry Website

Empowering Women in Industry Book Club

Empowering Women in Industry Mentorship Circles

Empowering Women in Industry Virtual Events

Shannon Bumgarner Linked In 

QUOTES AND KEY TAKEAWAYS

“Lead with confidence”

Two factors that contributed to her healthcare leadership success: (1) Having a really strong, broad network. (2) Learned how to build internal allies

“Once you build certain allies, it’s amazing how other leader (especially senior leaders) give you that respect. They look at it ‘you’ve already gained the respect of my peer so there is something there that allows for that relationship to be trustworthy. I am going to lean on that and build that ally with you as well’.”

On being a strategic giver: “The people that you invest in, they should be the ones that have the potential to move up and then look down and do the same thing.” 

“Pivoting and going into other role really does help your decision making more effective. It comes down to taking small risks for greater reward.”

“I have pivoted toward how can I leverage my strengths?”

Factors for Health Disparities: (1) Lack of Wi-fi access, (2) Lack of access to grocery store,