Founder + CEO
Carrie Fox
Pronouns: She / Her / Hers
Carrie Fox is the founder and CEO of Mission Partners, a women-owned strategic communications firm and Certified B Corporation that guides high-potential nonprofits, foundations, and socially responsible companies in realizing their greatest social impact. She is also the founder of Mission Forward™, a national education platform that equips purpose-driven leaders to lead with care, courage, and clarity.
Since launching her first company in 2004, Carrie has guided hundreds of leaders and their teams to communicate with purpose, fueling organizations and their missions forward in new and more impactful ways.
Carrie's work focuses deeply on issues of community — from social justice to sustainability, children's health, higher education, and workforce development — and her signature "More Than Words" approach to courageous communication has become the foundation of her best-selling book of the same name.
Carrie served as the creative visionary behind a nationwide campaign to transform the foster care system for young people aging out of care and she was the lead communications strategist behind a $10 million global prize competition to advance more fuel-efficient vehicles. She is also a founding signatory of the #WeTheChange declaration to build business for good, and a founding member of the Purpose Collaborative, a national network of communications thought-leaders and industry experts that work together to provide impactful problem solving in touch with the current needs of today's purpose-driven businesses.
Her signature conversation series and award-winning podcast, Mission Forward with Carrie Fox, has featured Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, MacArthur Fellows, a National Geographic explorer, and some of the nation's most sought-after philanthropy leaders.
Carrie is a 2001 graduate of Loyola University Maryland, where she now serves on the Board of Trustees. She is also the co-author of Adventures in Kindness: 52 Awesome Adventures for Kids to Build a Better World, which she wrote with her then 10-year-old daughter Sophia.
Carrie lives in Montgomery County, MD, with her family.
Founder + Host of Mission Forward®
Mission Partners' national education platform for purpose-driven leaders.
Carrie launched Mission Forward in 2014 as a live speaker series, designed to spark deeper conversations among the innovators, makers, and doers driving social change. In 2020, she reimagined it as an award-winning podcast — and it's since grown into a full community of practice: a weekly show, the Finding the Words essay series, and live events for anyone working to become a more inclusive, connected, and clear communicator.
Each episode of Mission Forward features conversations with some of the most admired purpose-driven leaders in the country — including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, MacArthur Fellows, and a National Geographic explorer — as they dig into what it really takes to lead with courage and clarity in today's world.
"Carrie Fox effortlessly holds conversations with thoughtful leaders who offer diverse perspectives on the topics we should be paying attention to today."
— Mission Forward listener