Barie Carmichael Is the co-author of Columbia University Press’ Reset: Business and Society in the
New Social Landscape, a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Darden Business School and Senior Counselor at the global communications consultancy APCO Worldwide. Carmichael counsels senior corporate management and the next generation of business leaders on navigating the new social ecosystem in which businesses today operate. As Dow Corning Corporation’s chief communications officer, the company’s board of directors elected her to the position of corporate officer, recognizing her strategic contributions to guiding the company through the decade-long silicone breast implant crisis.