For senior leaders turning expertise into income, thought leadership, and portfolio careers.

Strategic Advisory for Senior Leaders Navigating What’s Next

I partner with high-visibility leaders to clarify portfolio career direction, codify intellectual capital, and architect credible second chapters.

Because the next move matters more than the last one.

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“Karen is the person I call when the ideas really matter.” Founder, Global Innovation Consultancy

The Three Engines Driving Your Next Career Chapter

When the next move matters more than the last one, you need more than a coach. These three domains are how we build what’s next with clarity, credibility, and real-world traction.

STRATEGIC DECISION ADVISORY

Pressure-test decisions you can’t afford to get wrong.

We work through the professional, reputational, and practical stakes of what’s next, whether you’re exiting a role, pivoting your platform, or weighing a high-visibility opportunity.

You get a sounding board with zero spin, a structured way to think, and a trusted partner who’s not trying to sell you a method.

You make the call and move forward with clarity and conviction.

IP & PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE

Codify your expertise into frameworks, books, and strategic visibility.

We extract and structure your core ideas so they stop living in conversation and start forming a clear, ownable body of work that powers content, offerings, or a book.

You leave with frameworks and assets that make your value legible to the market, to your team, and to yourself.

PORTFOLIO CAREER & PRACTICE DESIGN

Design a coherent, credible second act and the structure to support it.

We build the strategy and infrastructure behind your next chapter — whether that includes board roles, consulting, a solo practice, or something entirely your own.

This is where visibility meets structure: the systems, boundaries, and operating rhythm that make the work both real and sustainable.

You’re Ready for This Work If…

You’re at an inflection point, and the stakes are too high for guesswork.
You want a sounding board for pivotal moves (exits, pivots, or high-impact career moves) that demand clarity, not noise.

You’ve outgrown ad-hoc execution and want your expertise to operate as a system.
You're done cobbling things together. You're ready for intentional infrastructure, not reactive motion.

You’re ready to codify the ideas you’ve been carrying and build something bigger with them.
Your intellectual capital needs structure: a platform, a practice, maybe even a book.

You’re clear this next chapter isn’t just a role. It’s a body of work.
You want visibility with substance, legitimacy, and traction, not just branding polish.

You’re not looking for a coach. You want a strategic partner.
Someone who can meet your pace and depth, match your ambition, and work at the level you operate.

How We Might Work Together

Advisory Partnerships

High-trust strategic advisory with built-in structure. You advance the work between sessions, and I provide the structure, sounding board, feedback, and pressure-testing that sharpens thinking and drives momentum.

Deep Work Sessions

Facilitated, focused sessions where we work in real time to extract, shape, and structure what matters most. These are built for high-leverage moves: codifying core IP, designing new offerings, or stress-testing strategic direction.

Full-Stack Engagements

When speed, stakes, or visibility demand more. I take the lead on building frameworks, content, or launch strategy, with fidelity to your thinking and minimal lift from you. Ideal for books, platforms, or urgent clarity under pressure.

Every engagement begins with a 60-minute Deep Clarity Session.
We define what’s at stake, identify where you're stuck, and map the architecture for what’s next, whether that’s a portfolio career, codified expertise, or a second act that outpaces the first.

Featured Work

Building IP That Accelerates Careers

A stalled doctoral project became a clear framework that propelled a client into a high-growth innovation career and, ultimately, into an acquisition.

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From Retired Executive to Global Thought Leader

A seasoned leader transformed decades of experience into award-winning thought leadership, global stages, and durable influence.

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Turning Professional Insight into Marketable Tools

A practitioner’s complex theory became a clean, usable assessment and framework now used across counseling, coaching, and speaking.

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From Career Confusion to Professional Practice

Clarity work surfaced a client’s core strengths and led to a distinctive, aligned practice built on her own method.

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From Runaway Thesis to Finished Degree

Real-time facilitation and guided revisions, turned an almost-abandoned dissertation into approved research completed on-time—and a far more confident scholar.

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Turning Practice into Global Recognition

A practitioner needed a path from raw cases to a publishable study. We shaped the design, data, and paper that earned conference acceptance—and publication as a teaching case at a top MBA program.

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