Carol Liege used to create state and national programs and campaigns for big corporations, government agencies, media/grassroots campaigns, high-level coalitions, and other powerful entities. After "retiring" to a part-time local consultancy while helping out as a family caregiver she became an expert in starting new programs and businesses for female professionals and entrepreneurs.
Strategic Planning is My Jam
I think I've always been a planner by nature -- curious, analytic, goal-oriented and enthusiastic about finding solutions, I ran programs and committees as early as high school, through college, and two lengthy high-level careers in government and the private sector. Because all my work has been project-oriented, I've stashed a lot of information about numerous social, environmental, humanitarian and philanthropic issues and endeavors already so that I have a running start on a new Legacy project. Some projects have been small, some have had national or international ramifications. Many have impacted the lives of many people, even millions. If you want to hear stories about my specific experiences (or lack thereof), just ask!
My Social Roots
My Great Uncle Joe founded a company that revolutionized the distribution of food worldwide and won the National Medal of Technology, America's highest business honor. The generation ahead of me were the board members of the family foundation. The men ran successful manufacturing businesses that were a good place to work for dozens of new immigrants, and presided over the boards of several nonprofits. An aunt founded a prominent regional nonprofit organization, and a grandmother chaired her church's Sunshine Committee for more than twenty years.
My Personal History
I got started early. By age 4 or 5 I ran errands to the corner store for seniors in the neighborhood. At 13 I won the Minneapolis StarTribune "Teen Topper Award" for my volunteer work. In college, I chaired the Charity Week and Orientation Committees. The Federal Social and Rehabilitation Services Administration treated me to a master's degree in social work in exchange for two years' commitment to work in the field, which I long ago fulfilled. As an adult I've marched, stuffed, called, planned for numerous social, environmental, economic and political causes. One year I chaired Washington DC's "Make a Difference Day" for the mayor.
My Professional History
While still a student, I worked as a Domestic Relations Probation Officer and a social work intern at a Boston adoption agency and model community mental health center. I did research in a maximum security prison and a boy's reformatory. My first real professional job was Intake and Referral Supervisor at Boston City Hospital's child guidance clinic, which led to my being recruited by the Department of Mental Health and Retardation to work with councils across the state planning new comprehensive community centers and the institutions that were changing in response. That, in turn, led to my being recruited for a senior planning position in the governor's office of planning and program coordination, where I worked on cutting edge programs and services for a decade. My coalition-building and public-influencing campaign experience there landed me a Senior Consultant position in Washington, DC public affairs firms when I moved there with my family after my husband took a job with the US Public Health Service. I did that for twenty years before packing up my laptop, phone, and fax machine and moving to the West Coast in 2000 to be near family who had preceded me there. I continued to work on national projects for a few years, but increasingly became enamored of other businesses like Internet Marketing, Real Estate Investing, Website Building, helping women on a shoestring budget launch businesses, nonprofits, campaigns and other projects to increase their impact and income. Some men, too. That business was the foundation for incorporating The Legacy Factory LLC in 2014. It was another several years, until 2021, before I committed to making it a full-time, active venture. So here we are.
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