Certified Coaching Since 1999
Certified life, leadership, and wellness coaching led by Dr. Karen M. Kissinger and a team of credentialed experts. We help ambitious professionals turn clarity into action — and action into a life that feels like yours.
5 credentialed coaches
Trusted by professionals nationwide
Credentialed coaches through the International Coaching Federation
Graduate degree with advanced research in personal development
Award-winning educator & coach with a proven track record
Life, leadership, wellness & executive coaching under one roof
Coaching is not about giving answers. It’s about asking the right questions until yours emerge.
Our Approach
Karen Kissinger Coaching was built on a simple idea: real change doesn’t come from surface-level motivation. It comes from clarity, accountability, and the right questions asked at the right time.
For more than 25 years, Dr. Karen M. Kissinger has helped ambitious professionals, first-time managers, executives, and people in the middle of hard life transitions do the deeper work — and turn it into action they can actually see.
Coaching Programs
Whether you’re leading a team, navigating a transition, or rebuilding your relationship with your own energy, there’s a program built around where you are right now.
For first-time managers, senior leaders, and professionals ready to move from stuck to promoted — without burning out on the way up.
Explore programClarify what matters, set goals that actually stick, and build daily habits that carry you toward the life you’ve been circling.
Explore programSleep, energy, movement, nutrition, and stress — addressed as one system, not five separate resolutions you keep breaking.
Explore programBuild self-awareness, resilience, and healthier relationships — with practical mindfulness that fits inside a real workday.
Explore programFor leaders who need to build trust across departments, develop influence without authority, and grow real professional relationships.
Explore programOne-on-one work for senior leaders navigating high-stakes decisions, board dynamics, and the loneliness that comes with the top seat.
Explore programFree Tools & Self-Assessments
Five honest, coach-built self-assessments that give you a clear read on where you are right now. Each takes 3–4 minutes, and your answers stay on your device until you choose to save them.
Rate 8 core areas of your life and see, in one picture, where you feel fulfilled and where life is quietly asking for attention.
Take the assessment Self-DiscoveryDiscover which of four purpose archetypes — Creator, Connector, Guardian, or Explorer — fits how you’re built to live.
Find your archetype CareerThinking about a mid-life career change? Measure your readiness across the 5 dimensions that actually decide whether it works.
Check your readiness WellbeingBurnout rarely looks like collapse — it looks like a slow flattening. Get an honest read on three signals in about four minutes.
Take the check-in WellnessA 6-pillar snapshot of movement, sleep, nourishment, stress, connection, and rest — no diets, no willpower gymnastics.
Get your scoreAll assessments are free and for personal reflection — not a medical or psychological diagnosis. Browse all coaching tools →
The Academy
Twelve structured courses that turn our most-read guides into step-by-step programs — each led by the credentialed coach who specializes in that area. Learn at your own pace, in your own time.
Turn vague intentions into goals you actually follow through on, with a repeatable 90-day framework.
A guided self-discovery process for adults who feel successful on paper but directionless inside.
Rebuild genuine confidence from the inside out — without faking it or waiting to feel ready.
Be heard, respected, and able to move people forward — with or without a title.
A structured, honest roadmap for changing careers after 50 — without blowing up your life.
The seven skills that actually matter in your first 90 days as a manager.
A gentle, sustainable approach to staying strong, mobile, and active for life after 50.
Eat well without dieting, deprivation, or counting a single calorie.
Fix your sleep and manage your energy without relying on willpower or caffeine.
Understand and master your emotions to transform your relationships, career, and decisions.
Learn to bounce back from life’s hardest moments — without shutting down.
Practical mindfulness and stress tools that fit inside a real, busy workday.
Client Success Stories
The kind of results that show up in the way people run their teams, plan their weeks, and feel about the week ahead.
I’d been in the same role for four years and starting to believe leadership just wasn’t for me. Karen didn’t hand me a plan — she asked me questions until I built one myself. Eight months later I was promoted to Regional Director.
Sixty-hour weeks were the norm and my best engineers kept leaving. Coaching helped me see it was my model, not the market. Six months in: my hours dropped from 60 to 45, and we haven’t lost anyone on the team since.
I came in convinced I needed to quit. What I actually needed was to look at what was mine to fix and what wasn’t. A year later I’m still in the role, but it’s a job I actually want — and I don’t dread Sunday nights anymore.
Meet The Team
Five coaches with backgrounds in mental health, wellness, executive leadership, and personal development — matched to the work you’re bringing.
Founder · CLC, ACC
25+ years in personal development. MA, Park University.
Read profileWellness Coach · CHC
Holistic health, nutrition, and stress management.
Read profileMental Health · M.A., LMHC
Emotional wellbeing, resilience, and life transitions.
Read profileExecutive Coach · PCC
Leadership development & executive decision-making.
Read profileFrom The Journal
Deep-read pillar guides and practical essays from the team — updated weekly.
Finding your life purpose can become a surprisingly urgent question when your life looks perfectly respectable from the outside — but feels directionless inside. Here’s the complete process.
Read the guide
Staying fit after 50 isn’t about doing the same workouts harder. Here’s a gentler, whole-body approach you can sustain.
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After 15 years developing senior leaders, a pattern emerges that rarely shows up on any org chart. Here’s what it reveals.
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