Karen Palmer Coaching

I help leaders get unstuck, reinvent their careers, and speak powerfully to thrive in a changing world.

 

As a leader, how would you answer these important questions?

  • How satisfied am I with the career path I’m on?

  • Have I set personal and professional goals that align with the kind of life I want to live? How do I plan to achieve them?

  • How can I get myself unstuck when I hit roadblocks at work or in life?

  • How can I overcome struggles with confidence, indecision, and negative self-talk?

  • How effectively do I use my voice to serve the work I do, the values I hold, and the people I work with?

 

Not happy with your answers? I’ll help you find ones that lead you toward success and satisfaction.

 

Meet Karen Palmer

Karen is a certified coach who partners with executives, entrepreneurs, and mid-career leaders to envision and execute a plan to build the kind of future they want. 

She uses over 30 years of personal experience in corporate, nonprofit, and educational settings to help her clients increase their capacity to motivate and communicate effectively with their teams, while also achieving the goals they set for their personal development. She supports leaders in learning how to use their voices and presence constructively and respectfully to create collaborative and dynamic workplaces.

Karen knows what it’s like to feel like you’ve hit a wall (or the ceiling) at work and in life. She works with you to uncover limiting beliefs and behavioral patterns that keep you from moving forward, so you can create a vision for personal and professional success and develop the mindset and discipline to achieve it. 

Dysfunction in your workplace can reveal—and result in—major issues with employee performance, engagement, and retention, all of which can prevent you and your team from getting your collective job done. Karen will help you identify the causes behind the problem and develop a strategy for constructive change.

Karen believes that the work you do should energize and excite you. Her mission is to help you get there.

 

ONE-ON-ONE COACHING

As your coach, I partner with you to support your process of self-discovery and transformation, including:

  • defining your goals

  • designing actionable steps to get from where you are to where you want to be

  • developing your communication skills 

  • expanding your ability to manage conflict and change

  • improving your executive presence

  • increasing your capacity to bring out the best in everyone you work with

COACHING FOR TEAMS

Through individual and group conversations, I can help you and your team:

  • identify and dismantle barriers to productive communication and collaboration 

  • devise concrete steps toward solutions during times of conflict and/or organizational transition

  • develop practices to sustain a workplace culture rooted in the principles of psychological safety

  • move from surviving to genuinely thriving

  • What People Are Saying

    Karen is one of the best leadership coaches I have been honored to work with. She listens and probes. She analyzes what’s needed and works to make people better – based on what they want, not what she wants…Because of her experience in several industries, she has learned from the best (and worst) and translated those lessons into today’s world. For example, her session on psychological safety in the workplace was among the most popular of any of the sessions we offered in our week-long training. She truly understands the changing landscape of the workplace and can help new and veteran leaders navigate these challenging times.

    -Julia Wallace, Frank Russell Chair and Professor of Practice, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, ASU

  • What People Are Saying

    “Karen brings an incredible package of gifts to coaching: a journalist’s ear for the truth, a therapist’s compassion and patience, an executive’s professionalism, and a contagious joie-de-vivre that instills hope in the most jaded, cynical heart. With her help, I have become more nimble and adaptive, equipped with the tools to reflect and discern the right response to a variety of professional opportunities and inflection points. I have developed the confidence to take into calm consideration the needs and perspectives of a variety of stakeholders while standing firmly rooted in my unique strengths … I am grateful for everything she is and recommend her coaching services without hesitation.”

    -Khadijah M. Silver, JD, Senior Staff Attorney, Lawyers for Good Government

Feel inspired, invigorated, limitless: get unstuck, release your fear, and step into your power