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Karen Ericksen

Karen is an executive coach who has over twenty-five years business experience in corporate environments and professional services. She presently works with emerging and senior leaders in a number of global organizations to design and facilitate leadership and team development programs and coaching to multi-cultural groups around the world.

Her highly collaborative style and her strengths in forging meaningful, insightful connections with others provide catalysts for encouraging personal and organizational growth and navigating change. Karen’s key focal areas include communications, team leadership, trusted advisorship, leadership strengths, authentic leadership, experiential learning, facilitation and coaching.

Her business acumen reflects Karen's experience across a broad variety of markets and organizations. She has consulted independently to start-up and rapid-growth companies in Colorado, helping them to develop and expand their markets. Previously, as a senior manager at Apple, she created strategies to strengthen customer focus as well as developed and implemented strategic marketing and communications plans. She spent several years at Apple's subsidiary in Sydney, Australia where she directed Apple’s marketing to Australian/New Zealand schools and universities.

• B.A. in Economics, Williams College
• M.B.A., Stanford Business School
• Certified in Myers Briggs (MBTI) and the Strengths Deployment Inventory (SDI)
• Certified Professional Coactive Coach, Coach Training Institute (CTI), California

Karen lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and has two teenage sons. She is an avid hiker, skier, outdoor enthusiast, foodie and traveler and is always on the lookout for great travel, book and dining recommendations.

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