Karen Lindsey combines her experience as a corporate executive with her educational background and coaching credentials to provide comprehensive coaching and leadership development services. She is known for her ability to determine and analyze areas for growth, collaboratively create actionable plans, reinforce accountability, provide support, and lead the way to measurable, sustainable behavioral growth. Her direct, no-nonsense, results-oriented, yet supportive approach gives her clients the confidence that they will hear what they need to hear and achieve more than they thought possible. Her business background allows her to relate to executive, corporate and business clientele, and identify the correlation between individual growth and the impacts to their organizational success.

Karen has a unique and broad background as an executive in finance, operations and project management in fast-paced, ever-changing, technical and creative environments. She has 20 years combined experience in the global entertainment, design, production, construction, online and consumer products industries for such companies as The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. and ESPN.

Karen works with individuals from many industries, disciplines, backgrounds, personalities and executive levels of an organization. Her experience working in many different cultures and environments from creative, complex matrix organizations, to highly-structured, political environments and small entrepreneurial companies enables her to understand cultural and organizational dynamics and how they relate to executives’ and their organizations’ growth opportunities.

Karen has a BS in Finance, a MBA in Management & Organizational Behavior, and is a certified Organizational & Executive Coach and Personal & Life Coach from New York University. She is certified in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), Emotional and Social Competency Inventory® (ESCI®®) and DISC®.