About Karen

Karen Bergh "Coach"

Karen Bergh’s passion for helping others achieve higher levels of performance started early in life, when she was captain of the high school cheerleaders and learned how to dole out “merits” and “demerits” to reward or correct behaviors of this elite athletic group. In college, she served as “Vice President for Mental Advancement,” helping her sorority sisters maintain their chapter grade-point average through individual goal achievement, and implementing a mentoring and rewards system. [Incidentally, that same year Karen achieved recognition of her own, winning the National song contest by composing a piece that the Pi Phi’s adopted and still sing today.]

For the next 15 years, Karen served as both an individual performer as well as an inhouse manager for a variety of companies until she became a mother of two. This on-the-job training in her “Mom Rx” role led to her private practice as a consultant/trainer/coach, where she began to follow her own prescription for finding a healthier professional and personal balance.

Qualifications

Karen Bergh is a performance consultant and coach. As founder and principal consultant of California-based Praxis Coaching, Bergh helps client companies throughout the U.S. build and sustain high performance organizations. Her unique systems help professionals define and achieve personal, team and company-wide goals, resulting in increased revenues and improved communications and productivity.

Early training as a journalist and creative writer led Karen to her first career as a creative services professional—her copy for ad agencies appeared in national campaigns, and helped sell products ranging from gas grills to banking services. She transitioned to running marketing departments, and continued to work for 15 years in direct support of sales and business development initiatives. While working for Ernst & Young, her local business development team claimed victory to closing an additional $1.5 million in new business in just over a year.

She now consults, trains and coaches in:

• Sales and Marketing Performance Development
• Leadership and Executive Development, Communications and Interpersonal skills
• Strategic Planning processes and Business Management Performance systems

A graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a BA in Journalism, Karen is a member of the California Inland Chapters of the American Marketing Association and the Public Relations Society of America.

Karen speaks at business and industry association events, guest lectures at local colleges and publishes a monthly e-zine called The Coach’s Playbook. Skilled in the arts of instructional design and facilitation, Karen Bergh’s customized workshops are sought by organizations who want to develop sales and relationship marketing skills, leadership skills, referral marketing systems, personal influence and communications skills, improved processes, communications systems and teamwork.