Karen Solorow - Training & Development
With over 25 years in the financial services and media/publishing sectors, Karen Solorow brings a breadth and depth of experience as both revenue producer and HR professional serving external and internal clients. Karen manages her own career coaching and training & development consulting practice, Coaching for Success, where she coaches emerging leaders to senior executives (with a particular emphasis on women and minorities). Coaching assignments have included individual coaching and group facilitation, career preparation skills (resume, interviews preparation, negotiation), group workshops (on topics including improving communication skills, managing your career development, improving visibility, mentoring, etc.) and providing training & development consulting services to public and private companies. Project assignments have included helping solve retention challenges, designing credit training workshops, communication skills workshops, and optimizing action learning initiatives.
Karen’s experience is diverse. Her organizational development/ HR background includes roles in recruiting, managing talent and leadership development initiatives, and executive search for companies including The McGraw-Hill Companies, Bankers Trust, and Bank of Montreal/Harris Bank. In addition, Karen brings 15+ years of sales and relationship management experience in banking, where, as vice president and team leader, she managed a portfolio of multinational Fortune 500 clients.
Karen has been a guest speaker and has facilitated and/or moderated numerous panels focusing on a variety of career challenges facing the business professional today. She is a member of Women on Wall Street, SHRM, and Fortè (among others) and holds advisory positions on the Darden Business School Advisory Board and the Career Resources Consortium.
Karen earned her M.B.A. from The Simmons Graduate School of Management and a B.A. undergraduate degree from Syracuse University. In her spare time, Karen is an avid singer and is committed to mentoring others to help them be the best they can be.