Experience

The power of activating outstanding human dynamics.

1997

Director of HR


Columbia University

2011

Executive Director

CARING at Columbia, 501c3

2013

founder & CEO


Tournesol Wellness - NYC

2015

Co-founder & Exec. Dir.

Tournesol Kids, 501c3

2019

author


Simon and Schuster Books

2020

Speaker & change leader

Harmin, Five Archetypes

Where Personality Tests Go to Get a Makeover.

Let’s face it, personality tests are great for understanding who you are and giving everyone a language to throw around in meetings. But here’s the thing—those tests don’t tell you how your stress makes Bob lose his cool or why Sarah goes into ‘do-not-disturb’ mode when things get tense.

5A doesn’t just give you a snapshot of who’s who on the team, it shows you how those personalities interact—and more importantly, how those interactions affect your entire organization. We’re not about labels; we’re about results.

How Does it Work?

With 5A, you’ll learn how one person’s meltdown can set off a chain reaction, and how to stop that cycle before it escalates. We map out the dynamics between people and teach you how to change the game—not just react to it.

Our Five Archetypes questionnaire reveals your hidden success algorithm. By realigning thoughts, actions, workflows, and team structures to your unique success algorithm, we reallocate your team’s energy toward innovation and away from managing conflict.

So, forget the labels—let’s fix the system.

Meet Carey Davidson

Carey is a world-renowned Resilience Coach and Five Archetypes (hidden motivators of behavior) Educator. She leverages 30+ years of expertise in relationship dynamics, HR strategy, NGO leadership, and integrative wellness. As an author, coach, and founder, she excels in rapidly diagnosing and solving the root sources of complex problems, liberating individuals, teams, and companies from ineffective patterns. A master in sustainable change, Carey helps individuals and organizations dramatically reduce the interpersonal friction inherent in establishing new people in new situations with new systems and technology. 

With a passion for education, Carey has refined her skills with thousands of clients and students worldwide, teaching for Starbucks, Microsoft, Tony Robbins, Washington State government agencies, SXSW, Yale University, Teachers College of Columbia University, UCLA Anderson School of Management, CUNY, NYC Public Schools, the Human Rights Watch, Fortune 100 and 500 companies, and as an executive coach for Ultra High Net Worth families and individuals in the private equity, banking, investment, legal, political, entertainment and marketing industries.

Carey led Human Resources at Columbia University. She was the Executive Director of CARING at Columbia, a component of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, which provides culturally sensitive prevention and intervention programs using art and music for at-risk children in New York City.

As the Founder and CEO of Tournesol Wellness in New York City, Carey designed programs that combined groundbreaking science with ancient teachings to empower people and organizations with skills that maximized relationships by leveraging people’s unique interactive styles.

The author of The Five Archetypes: Discover Your True Nature and Transform Your Life and Relationships (2020 Simon & Schuster), Carey specializes in uncovering and solving hidden relationship dynamics, adeptly navigating terrain that often remains mysterious and unresolved by other systems.

Coaching and consulting internationally, Carey offers tailored Five Archetypes Immersion Retreats both in-person and online.

Maximize Every Interaction

Carey is an expert in the business of human relations and organizational dynamics.  She guides individuals and enterprises to amplify the potential for growth by leveraging their Five Archetypes nature.

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