Every request on your calendar is legitimate. That is what makes prioritizing so hard now, and why the old tools stopped working. This piece offers three tests for deciding what is undeniable when everything is important.
My work usually begins at the top: coaching the CEO and working with the executive team to be more effective through hypergrowth and transition. As the company grows, the work grows with it, developing the next generation of leaders so there is someone ready to take on what the senior team needs to shed. The engagement evolves the way the company does.
For CEOs and senior leaders whose situation is outrunning the playbook.
Teams that must form fast and work well. Without this, everything else fails.
Recent engagements include PE-backed SaaS and technology companies from $50M to $1B+ in revenue.
95%+ of clients return for additional engagements and/or refer new leaders.
“Karen’s calm isn’t passive; it’s what pulls the conversation out of a team. Most facilitators take the oxygen in the room. Karen hands it back. She set the conditions for our best thinking and then got out of the way.”
I have known Karen as my coach and my colleague across more than two decades and several companies, through IPOs, exits, and the hardest stretches of growth. She is the advisor I bring into companies where I serve on boards, because she makes senior teams better and tells the truth while doing it. That is how she becomes a trusted partner rather than a vendor.
The leaders I work with are not short on capability. They are operating in a condition I write about often: always-on pressure that makes everything feel urgent, because most of it genuinely is. The AI transition is accelerating it. The work is deciding clearly inside it.
Every other week, I share what I’m learning about scaling without chaos: the priorities worth protecting, the decisions that actually matter, and how to lead when everything’s moving fast.
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