Carol later founded New Dynamics in 1972, an organization development firm specializing in diversity consulting and training, process consultation, and strategic planning in flatter, less hierarchical structures. She was an early innovator in the field of diversity education, pioneering this work at a time when there were few diversity training programs and little published material for corporate consulting. She is a designer of programs and a writer in the areas of gender, race, and sexual orientation, as well as egalitarian structures where power equity, diversity, and creativity are important.

Starting in 2000, Carol Pierce played a leadership role in the resettlement of immigrants and refugees by bringing together human service and educational organizations, along with local law enforcement, in their support. She joined Laconia Police Chief Bill Baker in creating a Mayor’s committee dedicated to cultivating a community-wide climate that does not tolerate prejudice or discrimination of any kind and remained active after chairing it for 13 years.

In 2014, Carol served as an advisor for the merger of The Women’s Fund of New Hampshire, The New Hampshire Women’s Initiative, The Commission on the Status of Women, The Women’s Lobby and Alliance, and The Women’s Policy Institute into what is now the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation — a unified voice of change for the women and girls of our communities.

She served on the Lakes Region Mental Health Center Board of Directors; on the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation Advisory Council; and has been a member of the Advisory and Program Committees for the NH Endowment for Health. She is a member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.

Over six decades, Carol Pierce has been a trailblazing advocate for equity and inclusion, and her contributions to New Hampshire and to the national field of diversity education have been profound.