Karen Warner is an executive coach and founder of Tangible, a coaching and consulting firm based in the Boston area. She coaches at the business level, assuring accelerated business growth to start-ups, businesses and consultant groups. She comes to the coaching profession from a successful 25-year corporate marketing career, 14 of those years spent balancing the demands of parenting her daughter solo against the demands of a high-profile job. Karen focuses her coaching on identifying and drawing out each individual client’s capacity for creativity within the context of their own lives.

Over the past year, she has worked with a community of women who found themselves widowed heads of households in the wake of 9/11. Drawing on her own life experience as a single working mom, Karen has provided this community with models for reinventing their lives while raising their children and juggling the day-to-day demands of single parenting.

Karen also is a literary agent. She works as an associate of the Helen Rees Literary Agency in Boston. Clients of the agency include Senator John Kerry, Alan Dershowitz, and business experts Michael Hammer and James Champy.

In Karen’s corporate career, she most recently served as vice president of marketing in the private equity arena. Previous to that, she held executive positions in such high-tech companies as Lotus Development and IBM. Over the years, she has effectively managed and mentored dozens of executives, individuals and work teams, helping them set and achieve both group and individual goals.

Karen is a member of the International Coach Federation and is certified as a coach by The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara. She has a bachelor’s degree in English from Rutgers University and has completed the Executive Education program in Marketing Management at Columbia University. Karen lives in Massachusetts.