Whether you seek personal or professional success, the SASS is healing magic distilled by a trauma-informed developmental psychologist, Dr. Carol Scott. The SASS—seven Self-Aware Success Strategies—are capacities you were pre-programmed to develop between birth and the end of your seventh year of life. Each of those years, you had a window of opportunity to practice and strengthen a strategy for greater self-awareness and healthier connection to others. Carol built the SASS model from her own felt need for a new way to grow, and from her deep knowledge of lifespan development, early learning, and how our brains are wired, mostly by age three. Her insights allow you to remove invisible barriers, ignite and maintain self-confidence through expanded self-awareness, and explode into an evolution of personal and professional success.These seven Self-Aware Success Strategies will change your life: at work, at home, out in the wider world. Wherever you go, and whomever you go there with, your relationships and experiences will be richer, more rewarding, and bring you more joy, if you take your SASS along!Trust more, be more authentic and creative, get what you want out of life, and be the one everyone else wants to be!A PhD in Developmental Psychology and stellar career working with hundreds of children and families nearly crashed and burned just as it was getting started when Carol faced multiple and significant life transitions in her 30s. But rather than become that nosedive and trail of smoke, she rose from the ashes of her loss, grief, and trauma. She rebuilt her SASS from the ground up and has committed the “third act” of her life to sharing this wisdom and lifting others. A recognized thought leader in her professional world, Carol earned an MA in Early Childhood Education, a BA in Human Development, with a minor in Psychology, and a BA in Anthropology, prior to completing her Doctorate.Her many leadership roles and a vast network of influential colleagues in public education; higher education; local, state, and federal public policy work; private philanthropy; and social-impact NGOs infuse her work today with a breadth and depth of perspective impossible to find in any other coach. Widely known as a remarkably talented and inspiring educator—on a camera, in a college classroom, in front of an auditorium, or shoulder-to-shoulder in a team meeting—Carol’s authenticity, warmth, humor, and skills elevate her impact with every audience.