Corporate Services

“Karen was a phenomenal coach in helping us understand basic meditation techniques for coping with everyday worries.”

 ~ Jenny Schneitzer, Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer, USTA Eastern

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive officer, was recently quoted as saying “The true scarce commodity” of the near future, will be “human attention.”  Nadella’s comment was in response to a Microsoft survey of Canadian media consumption concluding that the average person’s attention span is now just eight seconds. The study found humans now have a shorter attention span than goldfish.

Couple this with the ever-increasing explosion of data coming at us every day, and, as Daniel Levitin, author of The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, says: “It’s no wonder that the world is filled with so much misunderstanding. With such attentional restrictions, it’s clear why many of us feel overwhelmed by managing some of the most basic aspects of life.”

Training the mind to calm itself through mindfulness & meditation practices provides valuable benefits: it helps us focus our attention, increases our ability to separate the trivial from the important, and boosts our energy and productivity.  In these engaging experiences, I introduce participants to practices they can use everyday and take away the mystery and misunderstandings that surround meditation.  Here’s what a few participants had to say about my programs and what they took away:

• A great introduction to mindfulness practice!
• Enlightened methods to better living.
• Mindful awareness training & meditation helps improve your mental, emotional and physical health.
• It is an essential program for work and personal life.
• Great techniques for entire staff to support not just this work environment but them personally.
• This couldn’t have come at a better time for this organization.  Every day we encounter “different” situations and bury stress in unhealthy ways.
• Very important training for companies.  It’s so easy to get wrapped up in everyday stresses of life and people don’t take time to stop & relax and be present with themselves.
• Great way to make a profound shift.  

TO LEARN MORE, CONTACT KAREN

“Karen is smart, talented, reliable, passionate and great at what she does.  She is very creative at finding ways for teams to think strategically and work toward a common goal.“  

~ Karin Buchholz, Senior VP of Development, National Kidney Foundation

A focused, disciplined approach to business planning helps any organization save time and money.  Using strong business planning, meeting design and expert facilitation skills, I’ll work with your organization as you go through the process of long- and short-term planning.  I will help you design a systematic process and facilitate objective-driven planning meetings which stay on task and on time so you avoid wasting precious resources.   Allow me to partner with you in effectively executing the challenging and often painstaking corporate processes listed below.

Strategic Planning

• Establish or Clarify Organization’s MIssion (why it exists)
• Establish or Clarify Organization’s Vision (where it’s headed)
• Analyze internal and external environment for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats
• Determine Core Competencies of the Organization (what it does extremely well and potentially differentiates it from competitors)
• Assess Long-term Key Priorities
• Establish broad Goals & measurable Objectives
• Assess Critical Resources (financial, human, technology, equipment, etc.)

Annual Planning

• Establish in-year Key Priorities
• Set Annual Goals with Measurable Objectives
• Consider Critical Success Factors and Barriers toward achieving the goals & objectives
• Identify Strategies (broad “how to” activities) necessary for reaching objectives taking into account Critical Success Factors and Barriers.

Meetings are facilitated leveraging a variety of planning, decision making, creative problem solving and dilemma management tools and techniques.  This expert facilitation frees you as the leader to fully participate in the meeting confident the process will flow, all voices will be heard, interpersonal dynamics will be managed and critical decisions will be made.

TO LEARN MORE, CONTACT KAREN

During her corporate career, Karen has trained numerous programs in areas of Emotional Intelligence, Conflict Management, Interpersonal Skills, Behavior Styles, Managing Change, Leading Teams, Customer Focus and Not-for-Profit Board Orientation.  Contact Karen if you’re interested in tailoring a program to the specific needs of your organization.