Business Owners

Deepen your skills and clarify your strategy to confidently create, lead, or grow your business.

Does this sound familiar?

Whether you’re running a business, leading a team, or working with a business partner, it can feel challenging and isolating to know what to do next.

I offer the practical, informed support you need to make key decisions with confidence and make meaningful progress toward your goals.

Assess your needs, prioritize your next steps, and take aligned action.

Assess your needs, prioritize your next steps, and take aligned action.

I help business owners, business partners, and solopreneurs accelerate professional growth.

Together, we’ll build your business ownership toolkit, address your real-world challenges, and bring clarity to your journey. 

I combine facilitation and coaching skills with practical experience in a diversity of work cultures and industries to listen, support, challenge, and guide you. My approach is unique to you — helping you achieve your own version of success. We’ll go far beyond hypothetical situations, spending our time together tackling your most pressing questions, busting down the myths that hold you back, and helping you thrive as both a human and a high-performing professional.

Aligned, collaborative, and strategic support for business owners to help you achieve your full potential

  • Identify blind spots, overcome limiting beliefs, develop your skills, and grow your confidence

  • Cut through the learning curve with seasoned guidance and close the knowledge gap in critical areas

  • Define or clarify your value propositions, and build genuine value for your clients or customers

  • Take inventory of your strengths and assess opportunities for growth — in your business operations, and as an individual

  • Navigate leadership and build a skilled, resilient, motivated, and collaborative team

How I Support Business Owners

Business Coaching

For owners and business partners - take the opportunity to pull back from your day-to-day operations to work ON, rather than just IN, your business. Through confidential, collaborative conversations, we illuminate aspects of your professional role and business that crave attention. Business coaching creates space for deeper self-knowing, momentum, and alignment where you need it most.

Workshops

Build skills and capacity with an interactive workshop. From creating your business roadmap to managing a team, developing your professional skills, and building community, workshops are ideal for individuals and teams looking for effective steps toward greater insight, inspiration, and actionable takeaways.

Online Training

Heighten leadership and management skills through in-depth, self-paced online training. Approachable, impactful, and filled with meaningful opportunities to learn, reflect, and grow, these short but powerful segments provide tangible benefits in as little as 15 minutes per week.

Speaking Events

Gain insight, inspiration, and personal motivation by attending an in-person or virtual presentation. With a wide range of topics, you can expect to experience a focused, energizing, and value-packed session that includes practical takeaways to apply back at work, right away.

Huddles

The meetup is virtual — the community is real! Set monthly intentions and sink into themes like self-care, focus, creativity, agency, capacity, goal setting, and more. Show up for yourself and build community in the process. Clarity and Conviction Huddles are free to attend, and held by Zoom the first Monday of each month.

Support and Training for Teams and Employees

Are you looking for workshops, retreats, 1:1 coaching, or training resources for your people? I can help your team members elevate their skills and strategy for a thriving, successful, and productive company culture.

What Business Owners Are Saying

“Not only is she extremely talented in her field, but she makes you feel completely comfortable in sharing your struggles, triumphs, and hesitations as a leader. I highly recommend her expertise in whatever journey you are on as a business owner.”

— Cass Wendell, Girl Get After It

  • “Within seconds she was adding value and helping us move our company closer to our ultimate vision. She did so with integrity, creativity, innovation and passion. Karen is highly efficient and an excellent communicator. She is a natural born leader. Any company would be very lucky to have her developing their team.”

    — Mark David, The Mark David Corporation

  • "Karen reminds us that with anything in life, true growth and learning require vulnerability. She helps us look into the mirror, break through our own mental barriers, and let a little light into our business. When you're there for the right reasons, there's almost nothing she can't help you achieve."

    — Todd Thesing, Highline Partners Cofounder

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  • “Her methods are insightful, clarifying, and strengthening. She helps break down tough challenges and supports you through the execution. She is a multiplier. We trust her to equip our team, lead new projects, advise us on building strategy and mediate the ever-sticky family business conundrums we face as a husband-wife team. She’s amazing!”

    — Amber Fowler, Elichai Fine Jewelry

  • “She is an invaluable asset to my business and a great business strategist and coach. She brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and thoughtful analysis to every situation we address.”

    — Joe Dilschneider, Owner, Madison River Fishing Company

  • “As we prepare to open our new business in a few weeks, I wanted to say thank you! Your class gave me the confidence I needed and the know-how to properly research and plan for the opening of my (business).”

    — Honoré Levenson, Owner Hybrid Motion

  • “Her gift for teaching, leading and guiding in business is one that should be shared with others. She is an incredible asset to our business community.”

    — Theisen Property Management

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Working with me is wholly collaborative — you get out what you put into it. My approach is compassionate, direct, practical and supportive. You need to be prepared to get engaged, get curious, and get vulnerable. I won't put you through a "formula for success" — I'll help you become the best version of yourself or support you in navigating what is next for you. I operate with true professionalism, holding my client relationship in the utmost confidence — and I also share with a huge dose of realism and a sense of humor to get us through the tough parts.

  • I’m a certified Co-active Business Coach. I combine facilitation & coaching skills with three decades of practical experience in a variety of work cultures and industries; leading multiple divisions, sale & marketing, customer service, guiding teams and applying self-management skills over the span of my career; to listen, support, challenge and guide you.

  • That will depend on your goals, and the coaching approach that works best for you. One day you may show up with a checklist of questions, another day we’ll tackle your most pressing issue, and another, you may just arrive at our session with the courage and open mind to explore areas you might not even be aware of yet. My approach is flexible and adaptable, helping guide our sessions both with big-picture strategy and on-the-fly versatility.

    If you want to get the most out of your coaching sessions, prepare by being in-tune with yourself. Then make sure not to book any obligations post-coaching session so you have time to truly sink into all the work we did together.

  • Your outcomes will be unique to where you’re at, where you’re headed, and how much you’re willing to show up for yourself — But, many of my clients experience deeper clarity & conviction, self-awareness, confidence, productive & effective strategies to deploy, improved management skills, and a re-centered vision of your personal & professional “why.”

  • I love engaging with business partners and co-founders who are ready to level up their working relationships and the impact they are making with their teams and company. I am skilled at facilitating tough conversations, supporting partners in strategizing, finding alignment and adapting as the needs and direction of their business evolves. This is important work and I am honored to be your co-pilot.

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Are you ready for clarity, collaboration, and resources to run your business?

When your vision, values, and approach are clearly aligned, business ownership can be both financially successful and personally rewarding. I’m here to help.