Hi, I’m Karen.

My education is in communications. I thought that if countries and companies could communicate clearly, then there would be world peace, (seriously). I earned a Bachelors of Commerce from Concordia University in Montreal (my hometown) where I studied International Marketing and languages (six in all). I began my career in Tel-Aviv, Israel doing Marketing Communications for core technology companies.

My work was noticed by the Israeli Minister of Communications who hired me as her advisor to oversee the deregulation of telecommunications; shortly thereafter I became her aide and speechwriter for international meetings with heads of companies and heads of state. (That’s where I learned that people are people regardless of their position. Like when the head of HBO grinned from ear-to-ear upon hearing that I was a Garry Shandling fan or when the Prime Minister of Israel, stepped off stage, looked me square in the eyes and asked, “Did I do OK?” Priceless.)

After our first child was born, I transitioned from full-time to consultant, developing and executing branding for technology companies and also education, real estate and lifestyle businesses. Eventually, I started my own business, Mothers & Menus, a meal delivery service for expectant and new moms, authored The Well-Rounded Pregnancy Cookbook (Clarkson Potter), and provided parenting seminars at Fortune 100 companies. I also led grassroots mom marketing campaigns, like the one for Stonyfield’s YoMommy (yes, that was a thing. Like YoSalad, also a thing).

And then I decided to take a break from it all and stay at home with my kids full-time. Fun, frustrating, fulfilling and great fodder for a (fictional!) novel about a mom who raises her kids and then goes back to work as a spy (subscribe for updates!).

It also gave me a chance to work one-on-one with people as a personal coach, using active listening, deep support and Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed principles. I’ve had the pleasure of engaging with hundreds of people in the most challenging work of finding softness in ourselves as we deal with life, which is often pretty hard. If this is something that speaks to you, please reach out to me here or write to me karengurwitz at gmail dot com, or DM me on Insta @karengurwitz and we can take it from there.