I coach Fortune 500 and high-growth CEOs and their leadership teams through the messy reality of scaling.
If you’re a first-time CEO, leading hypergrowth, or watching your organization outpace your playbook – I help you lead through it without losing yourself in the process.
Do more. Move faster. Add priorities. Hire ahead. Build the plane while flying it.
This is the advice leaders hear constantly. And it’s exhausting.
I’ve watched brilliant executives burn out following this playbook. Not because they weren’t capable—because they were trying to do everything.
You can’t scale by doing more. You scale by doing different.
Calm leadership isn’t soft, it’s strategic. The leaders who scale successfully aren’t the ones doing everything. They’re the ones who know which balls to drop.
I was employee #104 at Compaq Computer during its rocket-ship growth from startup to $15 billion in revenue—the fastest in U.S. history at the time.
As part of the leadership team, I had a front-row seat to what works (and what breaks) when organizations scale at hyperspeed. I saw the leaders who thrived and those who imploded. The patterns were clear.
As a Fortune 100 executive at Compaq and through decades of coaching since, I refined those patterns into a repeatable approach: fewer priorities, better decisions, calm leadership.
My clients are navigating IPOs, acquisitions, hypergrowth, and leadership transitions and include Pfizer, Aetna, Ping Identity (IPO), QASymphony (acquired by Tricentis), Keyfactor, Witness Systems (acquired by Verint), and Welltok.
95%+ of clients return for additional engagements or refer new leaders.
I host LinkedIn Live interviews with C-suite leaders and write on leadership strategy for Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fast Company. My work is featured in HBR’s “10 Must Reads on High Performance.”
Author: “No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth” (Business Expert Press, 2018)
Education: Stanford Directors’ College |Columbia University Executive Program in Organization Development | B.S. Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University
Based in Jupiter, FL but often found in Seat 2C. Working with leaders globally.
Karen’s path to consulting is a direct result of two inflection points: meeting Dr. Bob Moore (now her husband) and her deep seated commitment to working and living congruently . Dr. Bob founded Oneteam’s predecessor company, working in clinical, organization and sports psychology settings. One noteable highlight of his long and productive career is his position as coach for the U.S. skydiving team Airspeed and their 12 consecutive national and world championships. After a decade of co-leadership of Oneteam, Bob retired from corporate work to teach Tai Chi, and can often be found on the business end of a saltwater fishing pole.
Her clients say that her move from corporate leader to strategic consultant has given them the opportunity to realize powerful capabilities and results. She works with individuals and organizations in a wide variety of settings and industries.
Every week, I share what I’m learning about scaling without chaos: the priorities worth protecting, the decisions that actually matter, and how to lead when everything’s moving fast.
No fluff. No generic advice. Just what’s working for leaders navigating hypergrowth right now.
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