Karen Phelps

CPC, ELI-MP

United States

Karen Phelps, CPC, ELI-MP is an executive & career coach, leadership advisor, facilitator, and talent consultant with more than 30 years of global HR and business leadership experience.

Karen partners with leaders to strengthen their effectiveness, navigate challenging situations, build stronger relationships, and achieve meaningful professional and organizational goals. Her coaching style is warm, candid, curious, and appropriately challenging. She creates a confidential space where leaders can step back from the demands of the business, gain perspective, challenge assumptions, and turn insight into action.

Karen believes every leader has untapped potential. Her role is to help clients see that potential more clearly and create the clarity, confidence, and momentum to move forward.

Professional & Business Experience

Karen’s corporate career includes senior HR leadership roles in staffing, manufacturing, tech and service industries with Rockwell Automation, Fiserv, and Poclain Hydraulics, where she partnered with executives and global leadership teams on talent, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, succession, culture, and organizational transformation.

Today, Karen provides executive and leadership, career and transitions coaching, facilitation, engagement consulting, and talent and organizational development services. Karen is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) through iPEC Coaching and holds certifications in Talent Optimization through The Predictive Index and MBTI® Step I and Step II.