Our Leadership

Carrol Josephs-Marshall brings the strategic focus, vision and mature judgment gained during a successful career guiding the creation and implementation of financial programs, technical enhancement, and business advisory services to generate sustained positive results. Leveraging diverse financial, businesses optimization and accounting expertise to a variety of entrepreneurial technology and market-making businesses, Carrol’s more than 35 years of progressive experience has enabled her to significantly impact profitability and growth objectives for organizations for which she has served as a strategic partner.

As the Founder and managing director of Central Florida Community Planning & Development Inc. a non-profit, technical and business advisory organization, providing small businesses with outstanding guidance and organizational skills, Carrol has been retained by startups, small and medium-size for-profit and non-profit organizations serving as CCO. Her understanding of complex business principles, regulations, and practices including accounting function enable her to analyze company’s needs thus allow her to develop plans to facilitate growth and plans for improvement. Equally important, Carrol contributes to the creation and implementation of several non-profit organizations. Her extensive technical and business knowledge allows for the identification and implementation of a robust program that gives all type of businesses the tools to excel and be sustainable. She has created an Outdoor Market that includes a Small Business Incubator that allows the cottage and home-based businesses the opportunity to showcase their weirs with will allow for expansion and graduation to brick and mortar.

Prior to launching Central Florida, Carrol served seventeen years servicing policyholders Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Such environment provided her an opportunity to learn and assist clients in areas such as claims, policy change, underwriting rules, reinsurance, coverage interpretations and overall customer relations. She has excellent recruiting and communications ability in coordinating training projects. Carrol then became administrator and coordinator of a nursing service agency where she handled day to day accounting of the business including payroll and successfully handled marketing campaigns. Create fundraising and communications systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals. Create Non-profit organization wrote and receive grants for Non-Profits in excess of $600,000. Assisted in the development of a youth entrepreneurship which gave local teens the opportunity to start a business using the skills they learned while being guided and mentored. During that period she became self-employed as a Real Estate Developer, own, builds and managed personal investment properties.