Speaking & Events

Energize your community with clear insights, actionable strategies, and powerful purpose

My philosophy? A good speaker should inspire and educate — but most importantly, engage.

Inspiration is nice — we all love getting the feels. But inspiration needs to fuel action. When a presentation or kickoff really hits a home run, it’s more than just good stories, uplifting words, hypothetical concepts, and motivational quotes. It resonates with our own realities, challenges, and dreams — and gives us what we need to start creating meaningful shifts.

Making a lasting impact means genuinely engaging your audience, and encouraging them to take real action long after an event is over.

Make your event successful  with a customized, powerful, and interactive presentation

  • Deliver a topic that’s tailor-made for your audience’s situations, challenges, and goals

  • Create real-time opportunities to dig into new concepts, connect with peers, and gain personal insights

  • Provide the awareness and skills to create an action plan for their journey

  • Make it real, make it actionable, and make it fun!

Develop Awareness, Build Courage, and Inspire Action

I customize my speaking and presentations for your unique organization, goals, and audience, working collaboratively with you to create the perfect focus, vibe, length, and takeaways. Past topics have included:

Energizing sessions, powerful topics, lasting impact.

Energizing sessions, powerful topics, lasting impact.

Create Connections

As a speaker and presenter, I’m all about creating connections between individuals and groups. This requires a focus on the dynamics of the audience, rather than on the speaker in the front of the room. Leaning into my 20+ years of facilitation (in almost any setting you can imagine), I collaborate with event leaders and coordinators to design and deliver energizing sessions that are steeped in purpose, fun, and ultimately, connection to self and others. I speak with expertise, clarity, and perhaps most importantly — deep sincerity.

Whether I’m kicking off your event, leading a break-out session, or bringing your event to a solid closure, the message will be strong and the spirits will be high!

Want to see Karen in action?

Check out highlights from her recent keynote for Vance Thompson Vision:

What Event Organizers Are Saying

“Karen does an exceptional job of taking the time to understand your team, your business goals, and how best to move your organization forward. Then, she makes sure the content she presents is completely applicable, actionable — and inspiring."

— Dr. Russel Swan, Vance Thompson Vision

  • “Karen was a confident, comfortable, professional, knowledgeable, and engaging speaker that hit the mark in every way.”

    — Molly Mason, MSU Women’s Circle of Excellence Conference

  • “She kicked off the day with energy and enthusiasm, and got the crowd warmed up and ready to receive! Karen also provided facilitation support for breakout sessions and wrapped up the day with key takeaways. She has my highest recommendation - you definitely want to work with her!”

    — Hannah Bratterrud, Co-Founder, You’re Worth It Conference

  • “Karen’s careful attention to the dynamics of the merging group was critical…and allowed multiple, sometimes disparate, voices of opinion to be heard. ”

    — Catherine Lacey, Visit Big Sky Board

  • “Karen joined our team for a retreat to inspire and motivate. Karen did a wonderful job of connecting everyone on their level. She was engaging and uplifting. The interactive session was great for our team members and we left with some great take aways. I would definitely recommend Karen for your next team training or retreat.”

    — Laura Klouw, Corporate Director of HR, OReilly Hospitality Management

  • “We are so very grateful for your thoughtful and talented facilitation of our retreat--it was refreshing to pull back from the day-to-day and so helpful to participate ourselves. Thank you.”

    — Big Brothers Big Sisters of Big Sky Country

  • “I have been smiling all weekend thinking of how awesome it was to watch you in your element and glean so much from our exercises. My husband and I walked for 2 hours yesterday as I flushed out the day and we both aired so much in a productive way. I thank you for your prompts."

    — Retreat workshop participant

  • “Absolutely love your approach and delivery style. So engaging and not a snoozefest. Looking forward to next week and putting your words of wisdom into action. Thank you!”

    — Retreat workshop participant

Frequently Asked Questions

  • From presentation topics, to how I engage your audience, my approach is highly collaborative and customized — designed to deliver what your people need, in the way they’ll resonate with most. We will start with some discovery work to find out what challenges and opportunities your people may be experiencing, then I’ll help narrow down our topics of focus before custom-crafting a talk or presentation to make the greatest possible impact.

  • From business strategy and leadership to personal empowerment and self-improvement, teamwork, healthy culture, performance, sales and service, and courage at work - my presentation topics cover a wide range of areas. I’ve even led workshops on fly fishing for first-timers! Whatever the subject matter, you can count on relevant, inspiring, and actionable information.

  • The scope of work will dictate the investment. Let's discuss this on your discovery call! Once I understand more about your aim and needs, I can recommend or customize the best services for you. And if my services aren't a match, I am also happy to recommend other presenters from my network.

  • Educational, inspiring, actionable, and most of all — engaging! I combine subject matter expertise with my natural energy to help make your event memorable — no snoozing in seats or throwaway worksheets here.

  • You name it, and I've probably worked in your industry. Most importantly, I aim to work with companies, cultures, and communities that are deeply interested in personal or professional development.

  • I would love to! I have a variety of topics I can build out into custom presentations. Let's start with a discovery call so I can learn more about the goals and outcomes you are aiming towards. Visit my contact page to get started.

A truly great presentation stays with you, because it changes you.

My goal is to create meaningful shifts for your team and community through powerful, action-oriented presentations that do more than just inspire — they carve out a clear path forward. With years of expertise and a heart for creating connections, I do more than just show slide decks and tell stories — I offer audiences the means to create meaningful change in their personal and professional lives.