Write Your Next Chapter

Write Your Next Chapter

Exiting your business can feel like a loss of identity, relevance, influence, and purpose.

However, it is not the end of your story.

It’s the beginning of your next chapter: a chance for a rebirth of you and your life. And it deserves the same courage, intention, and clarity that helped you build your business.

That’s why I started Exit Doula: to help founders navigate this transition and step boldly into what’s next.

My Story

I’ve spent over fifteen years helping leaders and founders evolve and navigate the identity, relationships, and mindset shifts required to leave a business, a role, and a team.

I also built and sold a business and know how easy it is to get mired in the deal, only to find yourself unmoored and questioning your place in the world.

You were bold and played big to build your business.

Your transition is not about stepping back or fading away.

It is your opportunity to expand.

This is your chance to lead from your soul.

We’re here to help you do it.

120+

Happy Clients

20+

Years of Experience

52

Publications

45

Podcasts

Meet Your Guide

Carson Tate is a trusted transition coach who helps leaders evolve with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Having spent her career empowering executives to grow so they can amplify their impact, drive organizational change, and maximize revenue growth, she’s known for her intuitive, insightful, results-focused approach. With over 20 years of experience in transition coaching and consulting, Carson has enhanced leadership and organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, and productivity across private equity, venture capital, and Fortune 500 companies.  

Carson is the author of Work Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Style (Penguin Portfolio, 2015) and Own It. Love It. Make It Work: How to Make Any Job Your Dream Job (McGraw-Hill, 2020). Her insights have been featured in top-tier business media, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Business Insider, CBS MoneyWatch, Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, USA Today, and Working Mother.

Creator of the Productivity Style Assessment®, highlighted in Harvard Business Review’s 2017 Guide to Being More Productive, Carson brings deep expertise in human behavior and leadership. Before launching her transition coaching and consulting practice, Carson built and sold a business and held human resources and sales roles with Fortune 200 firms.

Education & Certifications

B.A. in Psychology, Washington & Lee University

M.S. in Organization Development, Queens University of Charlotte

Coaching Certificate, Queens University of Charlotte

Certified Immunity to Change Coach

Certified in the Hogan Assessment

Certified in the DISC

Certified in the Targeted Selection

Prior Clients

Let’s Work Together

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Explore what you really want, create a plan, and make it happen.

Let’s Work Together

Overcoming the overwhelm and finding the clarity you want is simple.

Connect

Fill out the form, and schedule a call.

Meet

We’ll answer your questions and see if Exit Doula is right for you.

Envision

Explore what you really want, create a plan, and make it happen.