Carol Wilson

Carol Wilson writes business psychology books and fiction. Her novels are published under the pen-name C.A. Wilson.

Her business psychology books include:

Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations (Kogan Page 3e) featuring forewords by Sir Richard Branson and Sir John Whitmore.

The Work and Life of David Grove; Clean Language and Emergent Knowledge, shortly to be published by Bisham Books.

Carol contributed to:

Excellence in Coaching: The Industry Guide (Kogan Page 3e)
The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Coaching (Wiley)

Her debut novel as C.A. Wilson is:

Carnations in Lisbon (Bisham Books), which was selected as a Top Pick by the Daily Telegraph.

Carol is a leading expert on leadership and performance coaching and a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership & Management and the Association for Coaching. She provides leadership and coach training programmes to multi-national organisations including Reckitt Benckiser, IKEA, Philip Morris International, and Hilti Group. She previously ran companies in the entertainment industry, including Virgin Music (Publishing) Ltd, and founded DinDisc (with Virgin), Equator Records, and Arctic Records. She signed major artistes including Sting, Martha & the Muffins, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Human League, The Buzzcocks, Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders, Tom Petty, Moby, Christie Moore, Die Krupps, and Pepsi & Shirlie, and created the dance series which included Cream of Underground House, Cream of Trip Hop, Cream of Ambient Visions, and Sasha the Remixes. She held board-level positions at Virgin, Island, WEA, and Polydor.

Carol lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband, where she wrote Carnations in Lisbon, inspired by her long-standing interest in 20th-century European history and the acquisition of a holiday home in Portugal.