Meet Karen

I have the pleasure of introducing you to Karen S. Richter, owner and founder of the coaching company Cohesive Outcomes, LLC.  Karen and I have known each other for many years having worked together at Deloitte before supporting one another as colleagues in our adventures in business ownership.  Karen will be posting throughout the summer.  In order to get to know her better, I asked Karen some questions about her background, specialty and philosophy.  Enjoy!

What drew you to your career field? I’ve been in Human Resources for over twenty years, and using (what I now realize are) coaching skills quite naturally for most of those years.  I gravitated to project management and then workshop facilitation and working with teams, helping them to strengthen their communication skills and become more productive and effective.

While I loved my HR career, I found myself in a place where many parents find themselves – feeling pulled in multiple directions, and living on auto pilot. I had too little time and energy to devote to all the conflicting priorities in my life, and ended up feeling a bit inadequate at them all.  I had a lot of wonderful things in my life to be thankful for, but I still had this nagging feeling of unhappiness.   I felt disconnected from my dreams.

Working one-on-one with a life coach helped me address these feelings of frustration and inadequacy.   I was able to better balance all the exciting activities I had going on in my life and became much less stressed and much more fulfilled.

I was so appreciative of the support skills I had learned through coaching, and ultimately decided to pursue a career in coaching. I realized my passion was not to just live my own life to the fullest, feeling fulfilled as a parent, wife, friend, etc., but to help others find that same fulfillment and inner peace in their own lives.

What is your specialty? I find my greatest satisfaction working with parents of school age children.  So often, parents feel out of control of their lives – they feel frustrated that their children are growing and changing so quickly.  It seems like as soon as they figure out how to best handle a certain developmental stage, the child moves on to a new stage.  Parents also struggle with a loss of identify due to being so focused on raising their kids.  They miss the closeness with their spouses (and friends) that they shared BC (before children).   It is such a joy to help these dedicated parents to rediscover themselves, their values, and their dreams, and to find ways to incorporate all this back into their lives.  This results in reduced stress, allowing room for more fun, happiness, and success.  I love my job!

What is your philosophy? I believe all individuals are naturally creative and resourceful and have the potential to transform themselves to live the life of their dreams.  Cohesive Outcomes, LLC offers support and simple, yet powerful, tools for parents to draw out their resourcefulness and creativity to create the nurturing environment and peaceful relationships they desire. Everyone has all they need inside of them to be a great parent, to raise their children with joy, compassion and meaning, and to have fun doing it!  Our job as coaches is to work alongside the parent to tap into those resources.

Interested in learning more or in contacting Karen?

Website: www.CohesiveOutcomes.com

Contact Info: Karen@CohesiveOutcomes.com, 610-346-9629

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