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…

Your expertise is deep, but the structure around it hasn’t fully caught up.
You know your work has more potential than your current frameworks, systems, or messaging express.

You’re done with ad-hoc execution and want a practice that feels intentional and architected.
You want your work to function as a cohesive system, not a loose collection of projects.

You’re ready to articulate an original intellectual backbone.
Your ideas are strong, and you want them clarified, formalized, and elevated.

You want your book to have real substance and strategy behind it.
Not a vanity artifact, but a work that builds legitimacy, movement, and meaningful followership.

You refuse to let internal or cultural constraints stall your growth.
You are aware of the patterns limiting you, your practice, your team, or your organization, and you are ready to resolve them.

You want systems that help you operate at a higher level, not work harder.
You are ready for tools, frameworks, and intelligent workflows that extend your capacity and impact.

You want a strategic partner who can match the depth, pace, and sophistication of your thinking.
You are not looking for a coach, a VA, or a content person. You want a thought partner who can work at the level you operate.

How We Might Work Together

Advisory Partnerships

Strategic partnership that accelerates clarity, rigor, and momentum across your practice or organization. Ideal for experts shaping complex work and needing a high-level thought partner.

Deep Work Sessions

Intensive, targeted sessions to clarify your intellectual backbone, refine frameworks, or shape the direction of a major initiative or book.

Every engagement begins with a 60-minute Deep Clarity Session.
This is where we evaluate fit, define your goals, and map the architecture of your practice.

Full-Stack Engagements

Comprehensive architecture of your research, frameworks, systems, and movement- or book-building strategy. For experts ready for end-to-end transformation of their practice.

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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