Karen Black
Consultant, Insight Edge
For more than two decades, Karen Black has guided businesses in such key management areas as leadership development, team building, conflict resolution, assessments and coaching. She is an alliance partner with The Bailey Group and will support us with similar services in select client engagements.
Using her experience with more than 50 businesses and organizations, Karen is focused on supporting long-term profitability and organizational effectiveness for any size company. She is a certified coach and mentor to business executives, human resources departments and management teams. Her professional experience prior to founding Insight Edge includes sales and marketing for the hospitality industry, human resources in private industry and executive leadership for a not-for-profit organization. Karen offers real world experience coupled with her academic background.
Trained as a teacher, Karen received her bachelor’s degree in special education at St. Cloud State University, during which she secured an internship to teach gifted children on the Papago reservation in Arizona. She earned an M.S. in management and an M.A. in conflict management and dispute resolution, both from Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas. She recently served as adjunct faculty at Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas. She served as adjunct faculty in Master’s programs at both Baker University and Benedictine College.
Karen contributes her skills in communication and leadership development to causes that help women and children. For the last 29 years, Karen has lived and worked in Kansas City, but returned to her native Minnesota in 2010. She enjoys reading, eating, attending theater and music events and spending time with family and friends.
Specialization
Align and Engage Leaders to Execute Strategy
Style
Designing Processes that Lead Clients to Answers: “I love Gandhi’s quote: ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world.’ For me, the change I wish to see is an individual or team discovery of their own solutions — knowing innately what they need — and then harnessing that knowledge to create highly productive and healthy organizations.
Core Service Focus
- Organizational Alignment
- Leader and Team Development and Coaching
- Conflict Resolution
Experience
- Founder, Owner of Insight Edge
- Executive DirectorVice President of Administrative Services
- Human Resources Development Specialist
- Director of Sales and Marketing in Hospitality Industry
Training
- B.S. in Special Education
- M.S. in Management
- M.A. in Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution
- Certified Coach, International College of Coaching
- Certified Self as Mediator, Mediation Training Institute
- Certified Manager as Mediator, Mediation Training Institute
Contact
The Bailey Group, 763-545-5997
763-545-5997
Karen Black
Consultant, Insight Edge
For more than two decades, Karen Black has guided businesses in such key management areas as leadership development, team building, conflict resolution, assessments and coaching. She is an alliance partner with The Bailey Group and will support us with similar services in select client engagements.
Using her experience with more than 50 businesses and organizations, Karen is focused on supporting long-term profitability and organizational effectiveness for any size company. She is a certified coach and mentor to business executives, human resources departments and management teams. Her professional experience prior to founding Insight Edge includes sales and marketing for the hospitality industry, human resources in private industry and executive leadership for a not-for-profit organization. Karen offers real world experience coupled with her academic background.
Trained as a teacher, Karen received her bachelor’s degree in special education at St. Cloud State University, during which she secured an internship to teach gifted children on the Papago reservation in Arizona. She earned an M.S. in management and an M.A. in conflict management and dispute resolution, both from Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas. She recently served as adjunct faculty at Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas. She served as adjunct faculty in Master’s programs at both Baker University and Benedictine College.
Karen contributes her skills in communication and leadership development to causes that help women and children. For the last 29 years, Karen has lived and worked in Kansas City, but returned to her native Minnesota in 2010. She enjoys reading, eating, attending theater and music events and spending time with family and friends.
Specialization
Align and Engage Leaders to Execute Strategy
Style
Designing Processes that Lead Clients to Answers: “I love Gandhi’s quote: ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world.’ For me, the change I wish to see is an individual or team discovery of their own solutions — knowing innately what they need — and then harnessing that knowledge to create highly productive and healthy organizations.
Core Service Focus
Experience
Training
Contact
The Bailey Group, 763-545-5997