Karen Young

Karen R Young, CPEC, MSW

I am a Certified Personal and Executive Coach and Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach with 20+ years of experience helping leaders at every level strengthen their effectiveness through a strengths-based approach. My primary focus as a coach is to help others use their personal power more effectively — recognizing what they already do well, and translating it into clearer self-awareness, stronger relationships, and greater impact.

I have worked with senior leaders in non-profit, healthcare, housing, finance, higher education, and B-Corp organizations, partnering with them through moments of significant change: new roles, organizational transitions, and the everyday complexity of leading people. As a former executive with hands-on experience in both organizational leadership and board/nonprofit governance, I bring a practitioner's understanding of what it actually takes to lead — not just theory — to coaching.

Founder of Karen R Young Consulting, LLC and former VP and Chief Inclusion Officer at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, I earned an MSW from Boston University in a graduate program for leadership in complex, diverse and multicultural systems and am a member of the International Coaching Federation.

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