Who are Karissa’s Clients? |
Karissa has served as an executive coach in more than 20 Fortune 100 companies. In 1994, she was handed her first coaching challenge. The challenge was to develop an interpersonal skill training/coaching program designed to integrate pilots into the traditional package delivery culture at the UPS Air Group in Louisville, KY. Since 1994, Karissa has worked with top leaders and managers across industries with in-depth experience in financial services, consumer packaged goods, retail, manufacturing, and telecommunications.
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Representative Clients: |
- A Chief Executive Officer leading a major change effort in a consumer oriented business with double digit sales declines as a result of changing economic conditions. The change effort involved refocusing the entire organization.
- A Senior Vice President of Sales seeking to improve his ability to interact effectively with his bosses and peers across a heavily matrixed organization.
- A highly successful Operations Vice President who sought assistance in transitioning from leading an organization of 3,000 people to leading an organization of 10,000 people. The new job was also much broader in scope and complexity.
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Areas of Expertise: |
- Cultural Adaptation
- Leading Organizational Change
- High Impact Leadership Up, Down, and Across a Complex Enterprise
- Effective Team Processes
- Executive Transitions
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Client Level Experience: |
- CEO /COO-SVP-VP-Director-Mgr
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Cultural/Multi-National Experience: |
- U.S
- Canada
- Mexico
- Ukraine
- Poland
- France
- UK
- Italy
- Germany
- Morocco
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Partial Client List |
- UPS
- Best Buy
- AT&T
- International Paper
- Invesco
- Zurich Financial Services
- Pepsico
- CMS Energy
- Dow Chemical
- Lear Seating
- Exelon
- Borders Group
- Barnes & Noble
- Proctor and Gamble
- IBM
- Wells Fargo
- Entergy
- Colgate-Palmolive
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"Managers now equate good performance with the perception that you are on top of things."
Dr. Thacker quoted in The New York Times |
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