Lee McEnany Caraher

Summary

Lee Caraher is the founder and CEO of Double Forte, the national independent Public Relations and Strategic Communication agency known for helping clients achieve their business goals with creative and effective communication that engages clients with people important to their success. Since starting Double Forte, Lee has focused the agency's work on helping good companies do great things. A sought-after advisor to the C-Suite at critical business inflections, Lee is an acclaimed communication strategist with a reputation for solving big problems with practical solutions. She taps her wide-ranging experience across multiple industries, business models, and business situations to ask the right questions, see around corners, and help plot long-term business strategies for early-stage startups to well-established mid-cap, public, private, and B Corp companies. As a leader and advisor, Lee focuses on building cohesive, high producing teams that get a lot done well and have fun at the same time. You won't be surprised to know that it's all about communication. She is a straight-talker who doesn't hold too many punches, although she does her best to be pleasant about it. Her big laugh and sense of humor have gotten her out of a lot of trouble. She is the author of Millennials & Management, based on her experience with epically failing and then succeeding at retaining Millennials in her business. Her second book, The Boomerang Principle: Inspiring Lifetime Loyalty From Employees provides a practical guide to building positive, high-performing workplaces. Among her board experiences, Lee served three years as Secretary of the PR Council, the national association for public relations firms.