Programs offered include Challenge-Ready Executive Coaching, Challenge-Ready Media Savvy Executive and the Challenge-Ready Organization. Recognized as "insightful yet accessible" and a "bright thinker", Karen has keen insights into the challenges that move organizations forward in crowded marketplaces and ever-changing environments. She is becoming a leading authority among executive ranks in presenting new ideas that challenge the current corporate thinking and it is making her a recognized futurist.

Karen's know-how comes from 15 years of collaboration with executives in such recognizable companies as Johnson Controls, Herman-Miller, Tiara Yachts, Shell Oil Company, Steelcase, National Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives, IBM, and the Colorado Department of Labor. Karen's keen insight was featured in Ahead of the Curve, a special report published by the W.E. Upjohn institute for Employment Research.

She published Executive Times a popular bi-monthly analysis about current business events for leaders. Karen has been featured in Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Careers Colorado, Black-tie Colorado, 1310 KXAM, and has been frequently quoted in national publications as a leading expert in executive development. As a former executive producer and host a morning radio show, Karen is truly a "thought-leader who speaks."

Her community involvement includes being on the Board of Directors for Colorado Human Resource Association and Colorado Society of Human Resource Management. Karen has also contributed her time and energy in such emerging economies as Albania, Afghanistan and Costa Rica.

Karen has achieved an MBA from the Seidman School of Business at Grand Valley State University and a BS in Management/Marketing from Ferris State University where she graduated as Marketing Student of the Year. Karen is an adjunct faculty member teaching leadership courses at Keller Graduate School of Management.