About Clara Lucia Jaramillo-Carrier, M.A., PCC.

Clara Lucia is a bilingual executive coach, speaker, and leadership consultant with over 20 years of experience across corporate, nonprofit, and manufacturing sectors. Certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), she helps leaders reconnect with their inner compass, shift limiting mindsets, and lead with greater clarity, humanity, and confidence.

Clara Lucia has partnered with organizations such as Ferrara Candy Company, Altium, Rich Products Corporation, Morton Arboretum, and EverThrive Illinois to drive culture transformation, strengthen leadership alignment, and guide executives through high-stakes transitions with authenticity and courage.

Fluent in English and Spanish, and originally from Colombia, Clara Lucia brings a multicultural lens that makes her especially effective with diverse, global teams. She honors the meaning of her name—Clear Light—through her lifelong mission to help others illuminate their path and lead from within.

Coaching Philosophy

Clara Lucia’s coaching presence is calm, insightful, and deeply human. She creates spaces where high-achieving professionals can pause, reflect, and realign with what truly matters to them. Her approach is both empathetic and direct—helping clients uncover and transform beliefs that limit their potential.

She guides leaders through real-world challenges such as burnout, imposter syndrome, identity loss, and difficult conversations—empowering them to lead with purpose and renewed confidence. Clients often describe her coaching as both grounding and liberating—leaving sessions not only with strategies for success, but with peace, permission, and a reawakened sense of self.

Notable Client Achievements

• Gained clarity for their personal journey and calling by drawing out their purpose and setting up a strategic plan to go after their vision.

• Increased confidence to follow career and life aspirations.

• Realized the power of choice.

• Identified how they can be a positive influence by speaking up and asking the hard questions no one else will ask. Clients began showing up more confidently at meetings, delegating tasks, and voicing their opinions.

• Sorted and experienced breakthroughs around self-esteem and worthiness. Found courage and accountability to move forward to achieve desired outcomes.

• Resigned from the previous job and got a new position more aligned with their professional goals, with significantly less stress, and a substantial pay increase.

• Created more balance, boundaries, and self-care.

• Began pursuing excellence, not perfection, making mistakes, celebrating more, and finding joy.

• Started to believe in themselves and see how to reach their potential.