Carla Franklin is a technology and business strategy expert with 20+ years of experience honed at top management consulting firms and her own advisory company, Carlin Solutions. She provides project management and strategic advisory services in the areas of business transformation, product management, operational excellence, digital innovation, and data science/AI for leading corporations and public sector agencies.

Carla is also a technology influencer who blogs and speaks frequently on gender and cultural trends in social media and technology. Her topics of focus include women in technology, online safety, and bridging the diversity divide in technology. In the past, she served as a guest technology commentator on the Arise TV network and was selected to speak in 2014 at the SXSW Interactive conference on the topics of Technology and Women's Empowerment. In 2012, she was featured as one of Newsweek / The Daily Beast's Women in the World. Also, Carla was one of 50 women featured on More Magazine's 2011 "Fierce List" for her fight against cybercrimes in New York State. Her work against online, gender-based harassment has been covered by The Daily Beast, Forbes.com, Time.com, NPR, Hot97 FM (New York City), AOL's "You've Got" series, HuffPost Live and the CBS Morning show.