Let’s face it, the role of a CEO is a lonely and often stressful job.
In today’s climate, CEO’s have a high level of ambiguity, which can impact growth.
CEO’s need a secret advantage on their team. Enter KP Strategies.
We work with CEO’s to stay “on” the business vs. “in”.
We know that CEO’s control 45% of the company’s performance2.
We guide CEO’s and their leadership team to think through critical elements leveraging a unique framework that drives growth, customer retention, loyalty, and sustainability.
Strategic & Business Planning to Execution
Are you one of the 50% of the CEO’s that aren’t satisfied with your strategy? Having a good strategy isn’t enough. Are you struggling to execute your strategy? Only 8% of executives excel at both. Over 67% of the CEO’s struggle with executing their existing strategic plan1. Yet, as CEO you own the strategy and control the company’s biggest moves.
KP Strategies uses our proprietary Strategy to Execution Framework that starts with the end in mind. This is where most management consulting firms end. They put the plan together and they’re done.
We assess what you currently have in place, what’s working, what’s not and guide the CEO and their leadership team to deliver a winning strategy as well as ensure the leadership team is aligned to successfully communicate and execute the plan. Companies that have a coherent strategy to execution have 3X the growth and 2X the profitability of other organizations.1
We’ve helped countless organizations leveraging the “outside in” and collaboration with the leadership team to create successful strategic plans that are actionable with a yearly business plan that is aligned.
Sales Strategy, Productivity & Transformation
Are you going into a new market and don’t know where to start? Trying to decide what type of sale person you need and the best way to incentivize them to achieve the results? Or, just not happy with your current results and the way your team is selling? KP Strategies can assess your team and give you recommendations and a plan for success.
We start with understanding your goals, then assessing your current sales environment to build a customized plan to help you achieve your results. We’ve helped transform sales forces from product-based selling to solution selling, high-performance selling environment.
Having a consistent pipeline that is predictable is critical to your success. We work with your team to create and drive a high-performance culture that is sustainable.
Customer Experience / Customer Success
Are you one of the 86% of executives that consider customer experience/customer success to be very important3, but aren’t happy with your progress? Is the customer “in the room” every time you’re making a major decision about the company’s direction and focus? Are you one of the elite 35% of the CEO’s that say that their customers are their most important innovation partners?4
If not, KP Strategies can assess where your organization is today, align to your strategy and provide a roadmap to guide you and your leadership team to true customer centricity. There are specific strategies for Business to Business (B2B) vs. Business to Consumer (B2C).
KP Strategies can work with your leadership team to ensure you achieve customer, leadership, and employee experience. We start with assessing your organization to see where you are in the Customer Experience Maturity Model. Then help you implement a program the is customized for you.
We’ve helped organizations start customer and consumer experience programs from scratch, guiding our clients to hire the right leader to lead CX within an organization.
Innovation, Portfolio Analysis & Prioritization
As CEO, are you struggling with innovation, new products and overall, where to place your bets? You’re not alone. 65% of CEO’s are struggling with the same thing.1
Innovation is critical to growth, particularly as the speed of business cycles continues to increase. Yet only 6% of CEO’s are satisfied with their innovation performance.4
KP Strategies helps you assess your current product and services portfolio as well as market opportunities and current innovation processes to know where to place your bets and significantly improve your innovation performance.
We will also help successful launch new solutions that are aligned to your strategy and customer insight.
Passionate about Making a Significant Impact
We love business! Strategizing on the company direction, business model, product direction, innovation, sales and understanding their customer’s insight is fun! Everything we do drives growth, customer retention, loyalty and sustainability. We’re passionate about helping CEO’s make a significant impact in their organization. KP Strategies is a certified women-owned business with WBENC (Women’s Business Enterprise National Council) and WOSB (Women Owned Small Business).
ABOUT KAREN
I love the mountains. It brings me peace and wellbeing. I also am a huge yogi! These things keep me centered and focused on what’s important in my life.
I give this same level of care to the CEO’s that I have the pleasure to work with. As founder & CEO of KP Strategies, I’ve had extensive experience being a high performance leader with a successful track record in running organizations. I created four organizations from scratch, created an Executive Sponsor Program consulting practice, researched Executive Sponsor Programs, wrote a white paper about it and became a recognized expert.
From my early days in sales and sales leadership, to my experience in general management, management consulting, marketing, strategy and consumer experience to CEO of a MedTech start-up, I have the robust knowledge, skills, attributes and experience to guide CEO’s. Based on my experience, I guide other start-ups CEO’s to successfully go from incubation to launch to scaling and sustaining their companies through the Entrepreneur Center.
These skills in addition to her knowledge in healthcare, high-tech IT and Air Force along with her entrepreneurial spirit, passion, collaboration and commitment to the ultimate customer provides her clients with the sustainable competitive advantage they need to consistently win in the marketplace.
Focused on Your Success
As an expert builder, fixer and connector, Karen’s mission is to help drive sustainable growth and profitability. She achieves this through collaborating to assess your foundation, design a succinct plan, connect appropriate resources and provide guidance on the execution.
A few clients…
"We have experienced exponential growth, loyalty and customer retention driven in large part to the three-year Strategic Plan and yearly Business Plans KP Strategies helped us design and execute."
Wendell Banks
Executive Director, Wright Brothers Institute
“KP Strategies has consistently and effectively helped our business CEO’s to focus “on” their business versus “in” their business – resulting in extraordinary revenue growth, job creation, and the development of more durable and dynamic companies. Karen’s management consulting expertise has also been instrumental in making TEC a better organization as she supported our strategic, resource and growth planning. She is a consummate professional.”
Scott Koorndyk
President, The Entrepreneur Center
"KP Strategies is helping us think differently about our strategy and the "outside-in". Her work is helping us to better leverage the precious resources we have to maximize our outcomes, which is invaluable."
Bill Harrison
Director, Small Business Office, Air Force Research Labs
“KP Strategies has been our secret weapon. Karen has helped us think about what was possible and to provide resources to prepare us for the exponential growth we are experiencing. Working with a female run business is especially important to us!”
April PollOck & Shelly Heller
Co-Founders, Tempagenix
“KP Strategies has been instrumental in putting our business on the path for growth and client retention. Karen has worked closely with us to give us time to think and dream of what is possible to formulate our strategic plan and business plan. She also provides weekly guidance giving me the opportunity to step out of the day-to-day to think through key aspects of our business.”
GORDON HORWITZ
CEO, Wellvibe
