A successful consulting career can bring opportunities, influence, and meaningful work. It can also bring relentless expectations, complex organizational dynamics, and pressure to keep advancing without enough time to consider what you actually want.
KEM Leadership Coaching provides private, one-on-one leadership and career coaching for women in consulting, from Manager through Partner.
Some clients come to coaching because they are questioning whether to advance, pivot, or leave consulting. Others want to strengthen their performance and leadership effectiveness in the role they have worked hard to earn.
In both situations, coaching provides a confidential space to step back from the immediate demands of the job, think strategically, and take purposeful action.
Every coaching engagement is tailored to the client rather than forced into a standard sequence.
We begin by clarifying what you want to accomplish and what would make the engagement valuable. From there, you help set the direction for each session based on what is most useful at that point.
Depending on your goals, an engagement may include structured reflection, leadership assessments, career-planning exercises, stakeholder mapping, feedback preparation, practical experiments, and action between sessions.
Between-session support by text or email may also be included for matters directly connected to our coaching work.
Throughout the engagement, you will have a confidential thinking partner who understands the consulting environment, asks direct and thoughtful questions, challenges assumptions, and helps you translate insight into action.
You do not need to have every goal defined before beginning coaching. Some clients arrive with a specific performance or leadership challenge. Others know that something needs to change but are not yet sure what that change should be.
A free introductory conversation gives us an opportunity to discuss what is happening, what you would like to be different, and whether coaching with Karin would be a good fit.
Karin E. Mayer is an ICF-credentialed leadership and career coach with more than 30 years of consulting and industry experience, including 18 years at Deloitte where she served as a Managing Director.
Her experience inside consulting gives her firsthand perspective on the realities of performance, advancement, sponsorship, organizational dynamics, client leadership, visibility, and building a sustainable senior-level career.
Karin works virtually with clients throughout the United States.