Executive coaching
for transitions that don't come with a playbook.
You've built something, or inherited it, or are being asked to lead it next. You're navigating a moment that doesn't fit the conventional framework: a generational handoff, a company transformation, a role you stepped into or are preparing to step away from.
My clients are family business successors and predecessors, founders, creative and next-generation executives.Many of them think and work differently. Most of them are writing the story as they go.
Why I’m Different
Before I became a coach, I was in the seat.
I served as the leader of a multigenerational family real estate firm and took it through the kind of transition most leaders can't imagine: from founder-led to a professionalized, team-based organization. After working at the executive level for a decade and then serving as President & CEO for seven years, I prepared my successor, handed things over, and helped her launch before stepping into coaching. I'm still on the board.
Before that, I spent a decade in leadership development and instructional design across arts management, construction, and healthcare — including work with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Merck & Co., and other nationally recognized cultural institutions.
But the credential that typically matters most to my clients isn't on my wall - It's that I've actually been in the leadership seat and that I too have had to navigate uncertainty, manage people and make hard (and uncomfortable) decisions.
How I Work
Coaching is a long-term, relational engagement - not a training program or an off the shelf framework.
My practice is small by design. I'm a thinking partner for real people, doing real work, in real time. My clients bring the problems, and I lead them through the process. I use evidence-based methods, well researched models, readings, activities and visual tools. Coaching sessions have accountability built in.
I enjoy helping clients to identify the various complexities of their context and spot patterns in their systems, so they can take more intentional actions around the things that matter most.
Affiliations & Partnerships
External Executive Coach for McNulty Leadership Program at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
External Coach, Bloom Executive Coaching
Group Coach & ILA Facilitator, ThirdPath Institute
Certified Hogan Assessment Administrator
Credentials & Education
M. Ed. Adult Education and Organizational Design
ACC, International Coaching Federation (ICF)
ACT Leadership & Performance Coach, Brown University
ADD Coach Academy Coach Certification Program;
Executive Function Specialist; EF Coaching Academy
Adult ADHD Coach; ADDCA training
What Clients Say
“I credit her for helping me think through getting to my incredible new job while incorporating my other life objectives of being present for my family” Kate
“Karin helped me reframe my job search in terms of what the critical aspects were and I was quickly able to settle on a position that is a great fit.” Jeremy
“She provided a safe, comfortable space to experiment.” Maddie
“I have enormous gratitude and appreciation for her sensitive, generous, deeply kind approach.” Irene
“I learned something new about myself in every coaching session.” Angie
“Karin helped me focus, in a short time, to define goals, stay on task and uncover values that ultimately drive me and my business plan.” Mimi
“She has an incredible gift for synthesizing a lot of information…generous with her time and flexible in her approach.” Lindsay
“Karin is a good listener. She'll digest what you say and reflect it back to you in a helpful way.” Andrew
“I felt very comfortable opening up to Karin and truly felt like she was on my side.” Shanee
“I grew so much, on both a personal and professional level, after our time together” Elaine