Karen Thornburg Consulting
Helping clients turn vision into reality.
Leadership and Team Development Expert, Executive Coach, Workshop Facilitator, and Training Designer
Karen has over 35 years experience as a business consultant, executive coach, designer, and facilitator. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organizations, and non-profits across the country and around the world.
Some of her most high profile clients include AT&T, Spectrum, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Atrium Health, McDonald’s, and United Airlines.
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Meet Karen
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Karen is such a wonderful Leadership Development strategic partner. She has a keen eye for design and a gift for coaching. I have witnessed Karen engage and delight participants in the classroom and in meetings with her facilitation skills. Our teams have also benefited from her creative and masterful instructional design skills. Her workshops are among our most highly rated in our organization. No matter the task, she remains focused on delivering impactful solutions for her clients. Karen leads by communicating clearly, thoroughly, and often to ensure stakeholders are considering the relevant issues and tasks, and to assure the project is completed on time and within budget. You can trust that she will deliver what she commits to! It is always a pleasure and continued learning experience when partnering with Karen.
- K. Feaster, Senior Director, Charter Communications/Spectrum
Karen Thornburg is an excellent life coach! Karen elevates your performance, whether business or personal, to pull out your best characteristics and capitalize upon them. Karen gently drills into any issue(s) that may be holding you back in a kind, thoughtful, patient, and respectful manner. She shares personal life experiences to help you connect with her. Karen has an uncanny way of bringing you back to task when you veer off track. She asks poignant questions that cause you to self-examine and problem solve, which builds self-confidence and emotional intelligence.
Unlike many coaches, Karen does not dictate, rather she continually asks for your feedback and permission, so you are vested in the process and feel valued. I very much look forward to her calls and consider her coaching sessions to be the best business and life training I’ve ever received. Karen makes you feel significant, and that you are capable of achieving anything. I scrutinize and analyze most things, and Karen Thornburg has earned my highest trust, respect, and regard!
- D. Soltess, Director, Wheaton Sanitary District
I have had the pleasure of working with Karen on numerous occasions in an intensive 5-day, in-person professional services program. She exudes an engaging energy and warmth that fills the room with positivity. Karen's breadth of experience and passion for her work shine through when instructing a wide variety of audiences from varying experience levels. She provides thoughtful insights around MBTI analysis, presentation skills, deriving positive outcomes from difficult situations, and successfully adapting to different working styles. Karen's ability to role play is an asset that allows her to provide in-the-moment feedback in a variety of situations. Anyone who has been a participant in Karen's class not only leaves as a better professional, but leaves as a better person as well.