Carol Schultz

Carol Schultz is a pioneer in the Recruitment Process Optimization and Career Strategy Industry. She has built a client base of countless individuals and myriad companies from early stage pre-IPOs to publicly traded companies.

Over the past 20 years, she honed her industry expertise and formed an intrinsic understanding of successful recruiting processes. For many years, the industry standard began with a strong resume. While the document is an element to effective recruitment, Carol believes the person behind that resume and their fit to company strategy and culture is the key building stone to company performance.

Armed with this knowledge, she designed and launched Vertical Elevation, a fresh approach to an industry that truly needs a paradigm shift to a recruiting and hiring process that incorporates the executive management team’s core values and permeates every aspect of hiring process.

As a coach and advisor to corporations, Carol makes a stand for best practices to attract and retain the best and the brightest. In guiding individuals, she applies straightforward tools in taking their careers to the next level.

Taking corporations and individuals to the top with cutting-edge strategies for building top-performing teams is what gets Carol up in the morning.

A St. Louis native, Carol moved to Northern New Jersey following graduate school and settled there for 16 years. She relocated to Colorado in June 2003. When she’s not running Vertical Elevation she spends her free time skiing, riding her Rocky Mountain Horse, riding her motorcycle, and enjoying all the outdoor activities that living in America’s playground offers. She volunteers at, and fosters for, the Denver Dumb Friends League and is the parent of 2 rescued Australian Shepherds and 3 cats. Carol is the Education Director for the Denver chapter of the International Coach Federation. Carol holds a BS degree from the University of Montana and a MS degree from the University of Michigan.