Karen Benoy Preston is a Professional Certified Coach and Certified Team Coach empowering senior executives to become coach-like leaders who create and sustain cohesive cultures that deliver performance and profits in a chaotic world. She helps executives and their teams reach their full potential, individually and collectively. Karen has over 2500 coaching hours from working with global organizations based throughout the US and EMEA, including, IBM, EY, Salesforce, Intuit, AMEX, and Ally Financial. She has a B.S. in Business Management from The University of North Carolina. Whether your organization is restructuring, you are losing good leaders, or you are sensing your team is overwhelmed, Karen understands what you and your team needs in order to get back to thriving. She is excited to partner with you to transform!

Karen has coached leaders within the following areas/industries: health insurance, healthtech, healthcare facilities and physicians, biotechnology/life sciences, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, financial services, fintech, legal, information systems, software/hardware tech engineering, construction, media, communications, United States Federal Government, United States Air Force, energy, oil and gas (utilities), apparel/retail, sports/athletics, wellness, transportation, food & beverage, multinational professional services and others. 

Some of her critical moments of success include:  

• Coached a team to discover its unique purpose, allowing them to find funding and break free from parent company associated with US federal government;

• Coached a Managing Director to become a partner in a large tech consulting firm;

• Developed a powerful and proven values assessment tool for individuals and teams to create greater alignment in which coaches can become certified in;

• Became Top Expert with consistent 5/5 rating in the programs focused on Leading Organizations for Senior Executives for global coaching platform;

• Facilitated multiple highly successful group coaching sessions focused on career planning for top high potentials at a leading global software security company.

Karen’s client coaching agendas have included building self-awareness and identifying barriers, transitioning and/or accelerating into next role or new career, building team cohesion, values realignment, life purpose/legacy, mapping stakeholders, creating psychological safety, conflict resolution, systemic team development, assertiveness/influence, managing up, presentation skills, strategic planning, providing and receiving feedback, shifting mindsets, work/life balance, mergers/acquisitions and more.

Karen’s communication style is intuitive, empathetic, thought-provoking, direct, humorous, and relatable. She moves quite fast! The transformation happens quickly then coasts into the remainder of the coaching journey with masterful sustainability. She loves using sports analogies to demonstrate and articulate concepts and techniques. They’ve been known to impress.

Karen holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of North Carolina. She is a Professional Certified Coach (ICF) with credentials at the PCC level. She is an Energy Leadership Index - Master Practitioner (iPEC), a Certified Team Coach from Global Team Coaching Institute (GTCI) and EMCC Global Team Coaching Individual Accreditation (ITCA). In addition, Karen holds a certification in Conscious Business Coaching, through Fred Kofman. 

She loves experiencing life with her 3 daughters, Mike, and pup, Lola. She is an artist, yoga practitioner, and an avid music listener. Karen lives by the Atlantic Ocean and loves the salt life. When she is in her genius, she is being curious, mindful, and reflective, learning more about herself, and contemplating how others experience life. Won’t you come learn with her?