Hello and Welcome,

 

Hi, I’m Karen Gordon.

I’m a recovering/returning corporate executive, an entrepreneur, a consultant, a coach, a workshop leader, and a dreamer.  I spent over 25 years in the corporate world, with a single company before I took a break to start my own businesses. (Spoiler Alert: I returned to my love of finance, closed one business, and kept others open).

I believe how we contribute to the world and earn our wage should be enjoyable.  It should be fun.  If it’s not we owe it to ourselves to figure out why and how to change it.  If you’d like to read a more detailed version of my journey click here.  In the meantime, here’s the short version. I loved my corporate career. It was fun. I was constantly learning and testing myself.  Growing in knowledge and as a leader made me feel alive and then things started to change. I changed and the company changed. We changed so slowly that it was hard to detect what was happening. Neither change was bad, but we were no longer aligned. We can survive misalignment but we won’t thrive.  And I definitely wasn’t thriving.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make the company be what would make me happy.  Looking back I can see there were things I could have done explore a better alignment between me and my corporate role.  At the time I couldn’t see how it was possible or admit that I had the control to alter anything.  Instead, I took my career in a new direction and became an entrepreneur and coach.  I launched an amazing facility to host business meetings and events and started work on what has become Career Renovation.

I created Career Renovation to help professional women see that they have more control over their lives (professional and personal) than they realize.  Through coaching, mastermind groups, and workshops I work with women to develop the skills to better drive their careers before they get stuck and especially restructure them when they are stuck and feel they have no control.

Women are raised to behave differently than men (in many situations).  When the schooling stops and we enter the “real world” many of the behaviors we learned don’t serve us as well.  It may take some time before we are aware that the habits that made us good students are getting in the way of us becoming great leaders.  By then the habits are ingrained and we have taught others what to expect of us.  It’s much harder to change expectations than to set them.  The sooner we start to take control the longer we’ll have to thrive.  So, let’s get started together!