Leadership is personal.

Let’s get clear on what matters to you.

This is a bold undertaking.

It requires courage, curiosity, and trust.

It also takes a partner who can see you and meet you in your challenges, and hold a space of safety, integrity, and playfulness.

Leadership is a path of mastery—a significant aspect of which is mastery of oneself.

Leaders are humans first.

I often hear clients say something like, “I can’t be that human at work.” To which I respond, “Yes you can. In fact, you already are!”

At their best, leaders bring a keen mind, open heart, and spirit of learning and growth.

And the most supportive, influential thing you can do for yourself and others is to continue to develop your humanity and transform yourself.

Let’s talk about how I might support you.

Offerings

Coaching

Transformative development for individuals; mentoring for professional coaches.

Learn more

Leadership Development

Develop deeper awareness, align with what is important to you, and lead from a place of authenticity.

Learn more

Workshops

Learn and practice wisdom traditions that will change your life and deepen your impact.

Learn more

About Karen

I am an executive coach and consultant with decades of experience leading people and organizations through significant change.

In 2002 I started Aznoian Leadership Development with a clear mission: to help leaders succeed at using change as a positive force of growth. I knew many leaders with corporate experience who, like me, wanted to grow, learn and make a sustainable impact on their culture. 

In the corporate world I’ve drawn on lessons learned amid some of the most profound times in modern business history. 

I use a proven, innovative blend of personalized assessment and masterful coaching, and state of the art executive and leadership practices. Each engagement is customized to you and your circumstances. Hundreds of clients report transforming their leadership and their lives.

My clients discover inherent capacities and qualities that bring their own voice and authentic self to their roles: balance, clarity, gratitude, power, and changes that self-generate over time.

View my full bio here.

Attending to my own development is essential to supporting yours.

It has put me in contact with powerful modalities and wisdom traditions that I apply in my work.

These days my most powerful practice is one of earthing: standing barefoot on the grass, or sand, or dirt, gazing at the vastness of the ocean or the sky: a vital reminder of the vastness of the world and our place in it.

My place in the world is in New England, where I live with my husband. I also have two grown sons.

Client experiences

  • "Karen is an extraordinary coach. She helped develop my unique leadership ability and gave me tools to be tremendously effective.

    While her approach is warm and supportive, don’t be fooled. She is tough and deeply strategic. I still call her every few months for a ‘Karen fix’ and always end up feeling smarter, happier, stretched as a leader, and ready to take on the world.”

    —VP of Programming, National Media Outlet

  • “Karen is an outstanding coach and teacher who has had a profound impact on my life and development as a coach.

    She has a beautiful, powerful presence and way of being that continually inspires me to do the work and build the body of a coach on every level.”

    —Executive Coach

  • “Through Karen’s skillful attention and intuitive energy of reflection, she shifted my imagination for what is possible and invited me into a new way of being.

    There are so many insights and offerings Karen shared that I still carry with me like parcels.”

    —Executive Leadership Consultant

  • "Karen is deeply intelligent and wise. I have enjoyed learning from her and can feel how much she genuinely cares about me and my development. Her presence is a gift.”

    —Chief Learning Officer

  • "Senior corporate executives face many challenges: doing their own job and guiding others, while balancing corporate objectives, policies and resources against personal aspirations, personal integrity, and many other perspectives.

    I got to dive deep into these various aspects and learned a lot about how to interact with senior management and peers. I’m convinced I reached a much greater understanding of myself, my value and my weaknesses and strengths, which has shifted the way that I lead.”

    —Chief Medical Officer, Pharmaceutical Company

  • "For the people I care most about, Karen is on my short list of referral coaches. 

    I have worked with Karen to design and deliver coaching services to women leaders and have been coached by her on a number of occasions both for personal benefit and in my work. She is amazingly competent, courageous, wise and generous in helping people thrive in life and work.”
    —Executive Coach