Karen Gurwitz is an executive and leadership coach who helps people move through transition with clarity, confidence, and a working plan that fits who they are. She brings more than twenty years of experience across strategic communications, technology, government advisory, and startup environments — experience that allows her to support both the people doing the work and the systems they’re navigating.

Earlier in her career, Karen served as the sole technology advisor to a cabinet minister, working within a small team of senior advisors responsible for areas such as political strategy, public affairs, and women’s rights. She led technology briefings, prepared international and domestic delegations, and crafted speeches and talking points for high-stakes public-facing moments. The role required sharp judgment, cross-disciplinary fluency, and deep trust — experience that now informs her work with leaders who operate in high-pressure, high-visibility environments.

Karen’s career also spans core technology and early-stage companies, senior communications roles supporting a global IPO and local M&A, and strategic work helping organizations win complex RFPs by aligning leadership, engineering, and messaging around shared goals. Alongside her corporate work, she founded and scaled a niche service business, deepening her understanding of customer experience, operational growth, and leading through uncertainty.

She has worked across the U.S. and Europe, partnering with founders, executives, clinicians, and rising leaders at key inflection points in their careers. Her strength lies in listening closely, identifying the patterns and blind spots that keep people circling, and offering clear, practical direction they can act on. She is known for helping clients negotiate more effectively, prepare for high-stakes interviews, communicate with greater ease and presence, and step into leadership with confidence.

Clients describe her as steady, direct, warm, and perceptive. They leave conversations with renewed direction, greater clarity, and tangible next steps that move their work forward. Across all her coaching, Karen’s aim is simple: to help people understand where they are, articulate where they want to go, and take the next right step with confidence and momentum.