About Karen
Meet The Life Coach Whose Peak Performance Coaching Is
As Impactful As Her Soul Influence
The inventor of the principle “Influence It!” may very well be the world’s first Influence Expert for women.
Karen Keller firmly believes that when it comes to real power for women, every woman owes it to herself to have exactly what she wants. “Second best” and “almost” are not options for this creative spark plug who loves showing clients the secrets of using their natural power of influence as a woman—not “acting more like a man”—to excel in personal and professional life.
For twenty-five years, CEOs worldwide have been looking over the shoulder of the high level performance coach because of her proven track record in helping organizations and employees at companies such as American Express, Pizza Hut, and Indiana University Purdue University improve productivity, peer communication and profits.
Karen came to be known as “The Influence Expert” after her uncanny insights to human behavior helped to affect state policy decision-making in the courtroom and seal multi-million dollar deals in the boardroom.
Raised on a farm in Northern Minnesota in a family with six siblings, Karen’s father called her a ‘natural influencer’ when she was fourteen. Despite a lack of cash and customers, Karen persuaded the local youth organization to open a summer tennis camp. The camp turned a profit for the next 10 years.
After earning undergraduate degrees in natural science, Latin and psychology, Karen worked as a tennis instructor, chemist, and heart researcher before developing a musical studio called “Keller’s Kids” teaching piano instruction and music classes to ninety children.
She noticed her students weren’t only learning from her at an educational level. The relationship was much deeper and more heartfelt than that.
“It was there in a small town that I went in search of influence and discovered it was me,” she says. Karen responded to this calling for intimate connection by getting a Masters and then a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.
One day in 1999, after working as a Rehabilitation Director and then opening a private practice, she read the book From Couch to Corporation. It made quite an impression. Within six weeks, Karen had transformed her clinical practice to a coaching practice “The Executive Coach.”
Karen’s integrated mind/body/soul training has served her well. She has survived—and eventually thrived—through brain surgery (age 22), a divorce, earning a Ph.D. and opening a private practice (while single parenting her two daughters), record-breaking snowstorms, a “1 in 500 year” flood that destroyed her home and the loss of both parents.
In 2003, Karen decided to earn the industry’s highest status of Master Certified Coach. As “The Executive Coach” signed an increasing number of individual executive male clientele, she noticed her female clients were primarily part of a larger company contract.
What’s more, the men were excelling by using one specific coaching tool: influence.
However, when Karen encouraged female executives to use it, they responded with fear.
The men were consistently drawing upon sustainable influence with tremendous results. At best, the women’s use of power was inconsistent; most weren’t sure if natural influence even exists. The female executives seemed more interested in repeating patterns and listening to workplace messages they had learned a long time ago.
And in promotions and earnings, it showed. For years, Karen watched as more men knocked on her door, while women shied away.
Clearly, there was a chasm between the genders.
Realizing her proven Influence It! method was designed—and used—successfully by a woman in her own business, Karen knew what she had to do.
She decided to even the score.
Now happily married to the man of her dreams (and partner of Chief Possibilities), the energetic entrepreneur has recently launched a unique business dedicated to women. Her new on-line portal Karen-Keller.com provides a customized approach to women on how to learn and use influence in every aspect of their lives.
Once asked if influence is manipulation, Karen replied, “No. Manipulation is dominating someone else. Influence is seeing yourself in relation to what you want with crystal clarity. How could that be anything but good?”
Karen’s current book, Soul Influence as Your First Stepping Stone to Success is due out this winter. In it, she identifies the life turning point all women share that is rarely addressed in self-help books and offers Influence It! advice that helps see the ritual for what it is: a source of lifetime empowerment. Three amazing teachers—Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield and Dr. Denis Waitley—are also featured.
The new brand’s creative vision of Real Power For Women is the blueprint for expanding a multimedia platform that includes the e-zine “Winning At Influence;” “Karen Keller’s Influence by Design” blog, soon to be launched Influence.tv and the upcoming coaching membership “20/20 Influence” for women.
With Karen Keller, Ph.D., a lifetime of invaluable experiential, psychological, and spiritual education is at your fingertips. Be the one to take action on your dreams and partner with one of the best in your quest for getting, keeping and growing more of what you want in life.
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