Hi, I'm Karen. I create environments where product teams can do the best work of their careers. With over 20 years of experience, I bring a blend of engineering roots, delivery depth, strategic product leadership, and empathic people development.
My career evolved from front-end engineering and project management into product leadership, and now spans Product, Data, and Design. I help businesses turn customer and market signals into better decisions.
I have built and grown teams more than once in my career, and I care deeply about helping people grow. I am deeply data literate, comfortable with technical trade-offs, and very excited about AI.
Core strengths
The strongest themes across my work are evidence-led discovery, strong commercial judgment, team growth, data fluency, and the operating discipline needed to help ambitious teams execute with confidence.
Automated customer discovery recruitment and scheduling to improve interview cadence, PM efficiency, and insight flow.
Designed and operationalised an automated discovery system that turned customer feedback into a reliable weekly interview cadence for Product Managers.
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Brought a repeatable commercial-impact estimation model into shaping and delivery to improve product decision quality.
Introduced and operationalized Money Stories at Signable to connect product bets to commercial outcomes and improve decision quality across Product and leadership.
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Click: The practical and effective guide to developing successful new ideas quickly
Jake Knapp
Money Stories: Communicating the Value of Product Work
Rich Mironov
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers—Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
Ben Horowitz
Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
Danny Meyer
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings
Bootcamp
AI tools level the playing field and help you be more creative than ever.
Product Coalition
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Product Coalition
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