Want to Thrive and Not Just Survive At Work and Life?
It’s time.
If you’re a mid-level female manager who wants to escape your “warm poo” work situation and enjoy a fulfilling career without the sacrifice, I can help you with that.
Not some time after the mortgage is paid…or when the kids have grown up or when you’ve won the lottery.
Now.
How To Work With Karen
1 to 1 Sessions
Personal and Professional Coaching
Thrive and Succeed Without Sacrifice
Rekindle your self-confidence. Create a compelling vision and plan. Lead authentically and powerfully. Find fulfilment in your life and work.
30 day “love it or leave it” guarantee
Here's what you get:
12x tailored 1-hour sessions
Access to 50+ empowerment tools
Flexible scheduling
Confidential support & safe space
Total dedicated help
"Changed my world"
"Warm, honest and kind understanding"- Milla Neffling, Strategic and Scientific Marketing
The UPLIFT Group Program
Group Coaching for Corporate Women
Feel the love, make the change
Work together as a group of like-minded women to experience the support and understanding you need to confidently step forward in your work. Learn how to become inspirational in your leadership style, and to claim your rightful place and income. All without striving and stress.
30 day “love it or leave it” guarantee
Here's what you get:
12x weekly group coaching sessions
2 optional times for group sessions
Digital course with bite-size content
Worksheets and guides to help you
Group chat and ongoing support
THE way to get empowered
"I feel liberated"
"I now project myself more effectively and have created a clear vision for my career going forward" - Melanie Ottinger, Business Development Manager, Bioprocessing
Freebies To Help You Align, Change and Thrive
Exit Burnout Guide
In 2017 I teetered on burnout due to work overload. In 2025, I went full out due to a sudden and traumatic bereavement. Here’s my personal escape plan, sent with loads of love.
14-Steps to Your Next Career Shift
If you feel like a change is due, top tip: don’t start with a job search. Here’s a well-trodden path, constructed by the best of the best, that will help you find a more aligned place.
First 90 Days Guide
Landed your new role? Lovely! Don’t mess it up. Check these off as you go to avoid/reduce common mistakes and quickly build your trust foundations.
Escape Self Sabotage
The little voice in your head who shuts you up in meetings, stops you from pressing “send” on the job application and stifles your dreams. Her. Let’s get rid, shall we?
Good Meetings Blueprint
Meetings are an inevitable part of our work, or are they? This guide will help you decide whether to have one and how to get the best out of it when you do. For your 1:1, team meetings, off sites and more.
Leaders Behaving Badly Checklist
Wait…could it be ME? Am I THAT leader? Take a look at these common disempowering leadership attributes and sense-check where you are. In the privacy of your home when nobody is looking.
FAQS
What is Align Change Thrive all about?
ACT is all about helping mid-level female managers to awaken to what is possible for them and claim the role, impact and income they deserve...without the sacrifice. Having been there and got the T-shirt (and mug), I know what over-achieving, hard work and long hours delivers after a while: more hard work, long hours with a nice dollop of mental decline. Possibly a side-order of relationship breakdown. Seriously, let's stop this and get smart about where we want to go and get there without the burnout and sacrifice.
How does Align Change Thrive do all that?
Through freebies like:
Escape the Self Saboteur Guide
The First 90 Days Guide
14 Steps To Major Career Transition
The Good Meetings Reference
Leaders Behaving Badly Checklist
Cheat Your Way to Awesome Presentation Skills
Or great articles like:
Today I Sucked Soup Out of My Keyboard
My Dream Croft in Shetland
My Chronic Visibility Problem
I Think I'm Being Judged by Anecdote
Too Much Non-Promotable Work?
What is That on Your Back? Is it…A MONKEY??
Or brilliant offerings like:
The UPLIFT Corporate Women's Group Coaching Program
The Success Without Sacrifice Mini-Course
Newbie Women People Leader Mastermind
And of course, the ACT Women at Work email newsletter
I'm not a leader...is this for me?
Am I a leader if I don't have the title? If you’re a mid-level female manager in a large organization, feeling stuck, unmotivated, and juggling life's responsibilities (like kids, community, parents), then yes—you are a leader. Your workplace might not label you as one, but let’s be honest—many of us have settled for less, even though deep down we know we're destined for more, with plenty of untapped potential. Imagine unlocking that with more ease and less struggle. Sounds familiar? Then this is for you.
Is this a series of webinars with an accreditation for afterwards?
Short answer: NO.
Long answer: NOOOOOOOOOO.
Seriously; I provide the tools, map and guide to help you move from your current state of work/life dissatisfaction, to one where you’re confidently in charge of your direction, vision and purpose, whilst being equipped with a new host of approaches to get you there without sacrifice.
Want to roll around laughing on the sofa with your kids, without the creeping feeling that you must stop soon and clear the dishes or finish that email?
How about replacing the habit of “finish work then start another one” after the laptop is closed to one when you flow and stay present? Together, we’ll create that reality.
This process is deeply collaborative—crafted by your intentions with options for a safe space to talk, bucket loads of support, expert guidance, gentle accountability and warm encouragement.
What time committment is needed? I don't have much time...
Hey, I’ve been in your shoes—I get it. Adding one more thing feels IMPOSSIBLE. But guess what? It’s totally doable. If you have got used to putting yourself so far down the list that the washing machine filter gets more care and attention than you, then it's time for a change. The fact that you’re even here means your moment has arrived. You need it, you deserve it.
I have created an online course option, so you can learn the process at your own pace, or you have the option to add in the group coaching sessions (2 optional times per week), where you’ll get the added experience of accountability, friendship and deeper support. You can choose what works best for you.
How much does it cost?
There are different cost options, depending on whether you choose to embark on the online-only course, or online course + group coaching or my top-tier offer of online course + group coaching + 1:1 coaching. Just book a brief call and let’s talk about what would work for you.
