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The following are official recommendations on LinkedIn.
“I was introduced to Karen through a friend, who had been part of a group of women business owners that held a regular meeting with Karen during the pandemic to discuss…well, I don’t know, but business-lady stuff I assume. My friend was sharing her “ideal schedule” with us at brunch and I couldn’t stop thinking about why this was such an obvious yet not obvious thing we should all be thinking about!! I was going through frustration with my current career path, but didn’t really see a way out. I signed up for some sessions with Karen. She coached me through my day-to-day struggles as an unsettled employee looking for more and helped me see that I was worth more financially, experientially, and spiritually. It was a long journey.
Knowing what you are worth, standing up, and digging up the confidence to go get it. These are the things Karen worked through with me. It was hard work. In some sort of weird divine intervention, after 3 years of progress, she invited me to be part of her own journey in becoming a Purpose Guide. I was not a woo-woo person. I am still not a woo-woo person. But what Karen brought for me in this particular chapter was a steady hand, showing me how much bigger this universe (and, indeed my own life experience) was than my Work. Oh, work.
She remains a steady and consistent presence for me. I always know I can reach her, and she will be honest and kind. But most of the time, all I have to do is go back to my notes and remember…reinvigorate…and survive this life as the soul I met for the first time through my hard work and her persistent guidance. I survive with kindness and empathy for myself and those around me. Thank you, Karen.”
LM - Montana
Karen is an incredible business coach! She brings straightforward methodology and structure to her inquiry and helped me build a clear vision, strategy, and metrics for my business. It is not just that Karen possesses the requisite business training and analytical skills to be a very effective coach; perhaps more importantly, she is dedicated to helping women achieve holistic goals that fully honor what it is we, as women business owners, need for our businesses to align with our lives, passions, and goals.
She is intuitive, insightful, and compassionate, and somehow seems to ask just the right probing questions to quickly cut to the heart of the matter. She is able to help her clients reveal truly important foundational issues and concerns and then focus their energies on solving those problems. The result? A path to building a sustainable, heart-centered business that matter. I highly recommend Karen!
WP - Idaho
Where to begin with the venerable Karen Tempkin? I was first introduced to Karen through the Business Accelerator Course she taught with HerCorner. She was not only an incredibly knowledgeable source, but also an open, genuine, and amusing person to be around! She is a skilled listener and very talented at extracting the root of the issue when it comes to business and entrepreneurship. Her ability to offer constructive criticism while also being your best cheerleader is uncanny. Her boundless knowledge about all things business is astounding and inspiring.
In Karen's class, I felt challenged, yet also encouraged. She pushed me to work harder AND smarter. Karen is an absolute powerhouse, but recognizes the importance of a healthy work/life balance.
It's hard to overstate the influence Karen has had on my life. She has truly brought out a strength in me I didn't know I had. She has bolstered my confidence as a businesswoman and made me a better human being. In a word, Karen is MAGIC. Any company would be lucky to have Karen as a part of their staff, I feel lucky just to know her!
MJ - Montana
Karen is an incredibly talented business coach and my business would not be where it is today (and I would not know where it is going) without the guidance and accountability that Karen provides. She has a way of pointing out challenges, red flags, errors in judgement, without ever making me feel bad or foolish. Her approach is always constructive. When I come to her with anxiety, she responds with genuine caring and sage advice for getting through and moving forward.
Karen's operations and financial skills are significant. She has coached me through financial analyses for several big decisions and through challenging issues with employees. The specific skills I learned from her during and after the accelerator program have made me a more confident and successful business owner.
Karen says that she can calculate the ROI for anything. Anyone who has worked with her can tell you that the ROI for working with Karen is incalculable!
LN - Maryland
Karen is expert at environmental sustainability policy and issues that impact business. Several times Karen has guest lectured in my Sustainable Business Practices course at the University of Montana, and she is a high-energy, engaging and entertaining speaker and instructor. Karen has also mentored interested students, her level of expertise and willingness to help companies and people to succeed is phenomenal.
ST - Montana
Karen is my hero! Working with her has always been an immense joy and brings out the best in me. I'm always blown away by how knowledgeable and insightful she is, not to mention her commitment to her clients and students. Karen goes above and beyond to help you develop business proposals and use data to make compelling arguments. I was lucky enough to have Karen as a mentor and it's clear to me that she is one of the most genuine and hardworking people I've ever met.
As a student of sustainable business, I'm always excited to hear what Karen has to teach me as she always has the latest developments in environmental policy and climate change solutions and the ability to relate them to any project. I also appreciate her ability to bring me back to reality, making sure I always focus on the most impactful solutions to the problems that matter most.
I can't wait to work with Karen again as she always inspires me with confidence and energy while somehow making even the most stressful projects fun.
TF - Montana
Karen is an exceptional professional and person. I've worked with her in several capacities but am writing this recommendation regarding her career coaching. She knows how to scale between your dreams, gifts, desires and tangible outcomes. Karen uses her experience in so many fields and her own training to build a custom progression that will meet your goals. I couldn't recommend her enough if you are looking to make a career change and find what is next for you!
GG- Oregon
Karen has provided us with guidance and encouragement as we navigated launching our product-based business during the pandemic. She asked important questions at crucial moments and helped us seek out answers with local professionals. She is a master networker, connecting and supporting local women-owned businesses- especially through the challeges of the COVID-19 pandemic. We highly suggest investing in your business through coaching with Karen.
OT - Montana
I hope you get the opportunity in your lifetime to have the profound multipliers of human kindness, compassion, and consideration I received from Karen to meet you where you are. If there's a consideration welling inside you that's been aching to be seen, known, or shared, you give yourself the gift of seeking guidance, specifically from Karen, especially if you're questioning your purpose or work.
About a year ago, I was in a very different place and space related to my work and, more importantly, on a self-discovery of what I have been called to do with my life's work - my purpose. Karen's subtle but intelligent guidance in this space and confidence in helping me figure out how to find work fulfilling that purpose that met my financial needs took me out of dark times and allowed me to reach inside and towards more Soul-full considerations that I had been ignoring, isolating and numbing for a long while. Karen did not rest nor allow me to conform to what I'd done in the past; she worked hard and supported me with job searches, interview advice, and salary negotiation to successfully get a job. In my experience, a typical human being is given a handful of opportunities to break out of a normative power-seeking, wealth-building, or irresponsible dedication toward selfish intent and greed. These things are taught and construed as a way of life; they are conveyed as a 'good way of life,' and many people live content lives in pursuit of such things. So be it. However, Karen's mentorship has shown me that there is a life worthy of meaningful consideration. Just one to live, feel, and be - in your purpose.
With this substantiation now considered, I wish to draw back to the purpose of Karen's lengthy but necessary recommendation. Because it is precisely by her dedicated hand that I am speaking to you in this manner, trying to convey to you that I'm not unique in this equation; the specialty comes from Karen's unique ability to meet you precisely where you are, in your career, in your momentous occasion of life, in your drive to build up those around you, and through your purpose-driven work lift humanity one more rung on the evolutionary scale. Take this chance, make this dive, and push your boundaries; it may just be the one thing that saves your life and reveals the elegant purpose of your humanity.RZ - Texas
As a small business owner, I am lucky to be part of a group of female business owners in Missoula that Karen has been facilitating for the past year. She has been doing an amazing job organizing the meetings and making sure all the relevant topics are up to date. We all have learned a lot from her in this past year.
AW - Montana
Karen Tempkin has quickly become many things on my own path of professional development, and for the organization I work for. She acts as a strategist, educator, troubleshooter, counselor, and cheerleader at the same time. Our non-profit is making the move to the next level in a clean and structured way, and Karen has been invaluable in supporting me to be the most effective leader I can in this time of growth with her experience and expertise in the world of business strategy. She can help develop long-term strategies but can also pivot to help with something such as a tricky personnel issue at a moment's notice.
Personally, I look forward to our meetings, as I feel like I have my own private business professor breaking everything down into targeted, consumable bites. At the same time, our meetings feel as easy and enjoyable as having coffee with a friend. She has helped me personally become a more confident and effective leader and employee, and many of her professional strategies translate right over to my personal life. The benefits of working with Karen will certainly last a long time for all of us that are lucky enough to work with her!
CW - Oregon
Working with Karen was like having a really smart, detail-oriented business coach with just the right amount of cheering squad and humorist mixed in. Karen got me to run numbers, make detailed cash-flow projections, write one- and three- year personal and company goals, rework mission and vision, create an ideal work week, and really drill down on who my customer is, what my brand is, how we can deliver and delight them, and why. She was demanding and human at the same time. We laughed a lot. (I cried a little.) I highly recommend Karen for business coaching. She will set the bar high, and you will soar over it.
MB - Montana
In 2019 and 2020, my business partner and I hired Karen to help us with general business planning and strategies. She helped us work together to hone our vision and set clear goals. There were many things we felt at the beginning of this journey that would never come to fruition, but I'm happy to say that we have met and exceeded the goals set out in time we worked with Karen, despite our planning getting a bit derailed by covid.
I truly feel that none of it would have happened had we not hired her. Karen is trustworthy, kind, super supportive and non-judgmental... all things your average small business owner needs in a consultant!
TV - Montana
I started working with Karen in 2021 when I was searching for some guidance about my personal career path. I was immediately struck with her intellect, empathy and her vast experience of different areas of business. When I approached her I was feeling lost in my career and had a general lack of belief and confidence in my abilities to achieve the vision I had for my professional life and finances. She initiated some hard conversations and we really started to explore everything from different career paths down to my fundamental beliefs about money and lifestyle goals.
The woman I was when I started working with Karen to the woman I am today is so evolved and confident. I have started to tick boxes of goals and seen changes in my current job that I didn't think were possible. She has literally helped me to manifest my dreams into a reality and I know that this is still only the beginning.
Karen's knowledge and perspective on the world, business and money is such an invaluable resource to anyone who is lucky enough to work with her. She has helped me to not only change my professional life and atmosphere for the better but she has helped me to gain the confidence I was lacking and to not only see my potential but believe in it whole heartedly.
She is also incredibly funny and just an amazing person to talk to and bounce ideas off of. To hear of all the people, organizations and businesses she has helped is a true inspiration and I am so thankful to know her and work with her. I would recommend Karen to any person or business entity looking to evolve to the next level, nay the next 100 levels. She is the person you want in your corner and I look forward to continuing my work with her and I know that there are no limits to what I can achieve with her guidance.
KB - California
I started to see Karen in the Fall of 2022 after having my son. Honestly, I wasn’t sure what I needed at the time. I went into our meeting uncertain of what I could really offer and intimidated by my lack of career. I didn’t have any big moves in mind and I simply needed some guidance on what was next for me. I was so quickly put at ease by Karen. She has the ability to see people where they are and meet you in a space that matches your needs. She helped me understand the beliefs I held that were supporting me and show me the beliefs I had that were holding me back. She understood what I needed before I was even aware of it. She made sure every time we spoke that my true motivations were what was driving our work. She helped to highlight my wants and goals for myself, my family, and my future.
She asked me the tough questions, why was there so much that I thought I should do or be? What was driving those beliefs? I left every call with her motivated and inspired with a fresh perspective. I was never anxious about talking to her or worried I hadn’t gotten enough done between our sessions. She was always guiding the conversation in a way that gave me a boost and we spoke about what was going on in real time.
Karen is empathetic and understanding about life and meeting you where you are. It was helpful for me to speak with someone who is a Mom, a woman, and a believer in doing the work and manifesting your life. She has become a mentor to me in all facets of life. I trust myself more after working with her and ask myself questions that are tough and necessary because I know she would. I feel lucky to have Karen in my corner and know that anything I need help with she has my back.
JL - Montana
I have worked with Karen for a year, both during the job search process and in an employer-sponsored job coaching setting. She has been extraordinarily helpful in my professional development; I credit Karen for helping me develop my grasp on interpersonal relationships in the workplace, my professional goals/vision, and my task-specific skills.
Karen is great at helping with redirecting negative thought processes to helpful ways of thinking. She does this by turning doubtful statements about self-perception into positive assertions to replace those thoughts. This exercise opens new worlds when facing challenges or exploring new professional pathways.
My task management skills have improved immensely since working with Karen, both in my professional and personal life. Karen has helped me implement stronger systems of organization for myself and my company, which in turn made me a more valuable employee. I would recommend Karen to anyone who is interested in learning more about what they truly want their professional life to look like and how they can have a healthy relationship with work.EL - Spain
Karen Tempkin is a remarkable mentor and advisor. I have had the privilege of knowing Karen for over two years, during which time she has consistently demonstrated exceptional commitment to the personal and professional development of her clients, including myself.
My relationship with Karen as a career coach began during a pivotal period of transition for me, resulting in a transformative two years of difficult growth and change. Her guidance empowered me to realign my values and interests with my professional and personal goals, resulting in a profound shift in my mindset and the discovery of my own intrinsic motivation. Ultimately, this led me to embark on a new and purpose-driven career path that I know is right for me.
Karen is remarkable in her ability to actively listen, pose thought-provoking questions, and provide practical exercises that facilitate personal growth and self-awareness. Her talent lies in helping individuals break free from the constraints of maladaptive habits and ingrained perspectives.
Karen's emotional intelligence, empathy, fairness, and commitment to equality create an inclusive and nurturing environment for those she mentors and works with. She excels in translating theoretical concepts into actionable strategies, adapting her approach to accommodate clients with varying experiences and levels of understanding. Her natural patience and steadfastness make her an invaluable mentor.
Karen's strong communication skills, combined with her exceptional ability to empathize with others, enhance her capacity to guide and empower clients. Her approach encourages individuals to make their own discoveries, fostering long-lasting personal and professional growth.
In summary, Karen's qualifications and personal qualities make her an exceptional mentor, advisor, and colleague. Her expertise in individual mentorship and entrepreneurship, coupled with her corporate and small business experience, positions her as an invaluable asset to anyone looking for guidance and collaboration. I am infinitely grateful to Karen for the professional insights she’s uncovered with me, and for her continuing support as things grow, change, and evolve.
DR - Massachusetts
Karen coached me at the end of a 9-month job search process, and she quickly jumped in to help me with interview prep for the job I ended up accepting. I truly believe her company values-focused approach to interviewing helped me receive the job offer.
We continued coaching once I started the job, and something so unique about Karen is how her coaching style transcends career coaching, and helped me be thoughtful about my purpose and sense of control as a human.
Her advice has helped me focus on producing valuable and purposeful work, and made me much more open-minded about the different paths my life could go down in general. I can't thank Karen enough for setting me up for success as I entered a new phase of my life.
KF - New York
My co-founder & I have been working with Karen for over 7 months now and it has been a powerful experience. Karen has guided us through some ups and downs of launching our business. Part therapy, part business coaching, part teacher/cheerleader, her service has been invaluable. We really found our vision and voice while working with Karen and I highly recommend her to anyone starting a business, reassessing their business, or taking their business to the next level.
GR - Oregon
Karen is the best! 2020 really sucked for most businesses. Like others, we had to pivot and re-build our business structure. Karen has helped this process immensely. We have been working together for several months now, and I feel more and more confident about my business strategy. Not only has Karen helped us learn and grow as a business, she is also a wonderful person. I feel double grateful our paths crossed, as I now have a reliable and intelligent business mentor and a new friend.
BB - Montana
Karen has been facilitating a group of female business owners in Missoula for the past year. She has done a great job bringing us together and facilitating weekly meetings. Karen makes sure each meeting is well organized and worthwhile. I have learned a ton from her, the speakers she lines up, and the other business owners in the group.
KM - Montana