Karen focuses her keen knowledge of the challenges faced by marketing and creative management - as well as her years working in sales within the creative community - on discovering the right creative and marketing talent for your business. Karen’s career spans more than 20 years and includes specialties in: marketing/advertising, corporate communications, printing/paper, environmental and sustainability issues in marketing. She also has experience teaching in several of these disciplines.  Karen’s also a mentor to her agents and those in her talent network. In terms of her client relationships, Karen’s ability to merge corporate and agency sales with marketing and creative management enables her to quickly and comprehensively identify your projects and long-term staffing needs and work with her agent team to meet these needs.

The marketing and creative talent in Karen’s network:

• Specialize in print and digital design
• Augment internal creative and marketing teams with new skill sets
• Perform at top capacity with little supervision

Expertise

• Hands-on creative direction and sales experience in both agency and corporate settings

Affiliations, Education & Certifications

• B.A., Art Major/Graphic Design, DePauw University
• American University, Art/French, France
• AIGA
• STA (Society of Typographic Artists)
• DMA (Direct Marketing Association)
• Illumedia (Formally Print Production Club)