Karen Wilson is an experienced coach for SHAMBAUGH. Karen is an award-winning consultant in leadership development, who is passionate about working with individuals and teams to improve their effectiveness and potential. Karen delights in opportunities to leave leaders, organizations, and society better than she found them.
Prior to exclusively focusing on leadership development, coaching, and facilitation, Karen served clients as a management consultant for largely public sector clients for over 25 years at firms such as Arthur Andersen and PwC. She joined PwC in 2008 and was admitted to the partnership in 2012. She was selected to be on the PwC Chairman’s Partner Advisory Committee, has held P&L responsibility, and built deep client relationships and high-performing teams, managing business units of 500+ people. Throughout her consulting career, Karen is a leader who creates leaders, internally and with clients.
Karen focused her masters’ degree (M.D.E., University of Maryland) studies on adult learning, and has designed, developed, and delivered a wide variety of training programs in leadership development as well as other technical topics throughout her career. She has her executive and leadership coach certification from Leadership Systems, Inc. She also has certifications in facilitation (Association for Talent Development), action learning (World Institute for Action Learning), and administration of the SHAMBAUGH Leadership and Leadership Circle ProfileTM 360o tools.
Karen also holds two bachelors degrees from Boston University (B.S. Journalism, B.A. History). Originally from Rochester, NY, she has lived her adult life in Washington, DC, where she lives with her husband, dog, and younger son - for whom she can often be found watching a sport (rock) climbing competition in gyms across the country. Her older son is a U.S. Coast Guardsman.
