LEADERSHIP ALCHEMY
Your Brilliance Is Running on Autopilot
The same wiring that makes you exceptional can quietly create your biggest blind spots – and the friction between you and your team.
Grounded in 30+ years of cross-cultural leadership and strengths science, Leadership Alchemy helps you move from default reactions to leading on purpose.
Ready to move from autopilot to leading on purpose?
Speaking
Keynotes & Workshops
High-impact keynotes on strengths, leadership, and human capability in the age of AI - built for global stages, offsites, and conferences.
Work with me
Executive & Team Advisory
1:1 coaching, partnership alignment, and team programmes powered by CliftonStrengths® .
1:1 coaching, partnership alignment, and team programmes powered by CliftonStrengths® .
Community
The Strengths Alchemy Circle
A weekly, open conversation exploring human dynamics and strengths. No assessment required - just bring your curiosity.
A weekly, open conversation exploring human dynamics and strengths. No assessment required - just bring your curiosity.
"Karin was engaged by SCIRT, a temporary organisation tasked with rebuilding the horizontal infrastructure in Christchurch after the earthquakes, to help develop our end to end business processes. We had a very short time frame to do this and there was very little certainty in terms of what we were doing or how we were to do it. Karin helped us steer through the ambiguity to develop what has become a very efficient and effective organisation.
Karin's enthusiasm and energy is abundant and her ability is apparent to everyone she meets. She can quickly build confidence in a team and her ability to pull information and build consensus is of benefit to anyone. We have high confidence in Karin and would recommend her highly."
Duncan GibbExecutive General Manager - Stronger Christchurch Infrastructure Rebuild Team (SCIRT)
“I worked with Karin on a major project in the education sector. The project required representatives from several New Zealand Polytechnics and Institutes of Technology to work together to produce common processes that would support the introduction of a new Student Management System.
Karin’s role involved facilitating workshops that required both extensive business analysis expertise and a high level of emotional intelligence to achieve consensus from potentially disparate points of view. Karin was tireless in her commitment to the project that involved weekly travel to Wellington over a period of 3 months. She produced summary findings from the daily workshops ready for review the next day and contributed to meaningful discussions that kept the project on track.
Karin’s participation was critical to the success of the project and I recommend her to any organisation looking for thoroughly professional business analysis services or mentoring and training support for your own business analysts.”
Stuart WakerleyProject Manager, SMS - Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT)
"Karin is so dynamic and engaging that it's hard not to be inspired. She's open, honest and extremely knowledgeable. Her passion for sharing what she knows is unstoppable! I value her encouragement and guidance with her coaching, I found it very insightful and life changing. She connected a lot of dots for me, personally and professionally. I highly recommend her if you want to discover how you operate and how to be your best."
Sahera LaingPersonal Advisor and mental fitness consultant - Sahera Laing
"Karin was an extremely effective program manager who quickly and completely established rapport and credibility with clients, conducted herself professionally, and produced results that surpassed expectations. I would welcome the opportunity to work with Karin again and would think of her immediately should the possibility present itself."
Roni LeedsDirector, Sales Operations EMEA - Cisco Systems
“Kia ora Karin
I would like to express our thanks to you for our time working together.
We very much appreciated the opportunity to work one on one with you, being able to work directly on our systems, with our industry needs. You were very adapting and intuitive to our various workplace idiosyncrasies, and you picked up the lingo really quickly! It was also helpful for us to view our systems through your eyes and how to structure the tasks with clarity and adding in detail on tasks that can often 'be done without thinking'.
Thanks for the training, upskilling and confidence to move forward of what seemed quite a large task. Its been lovely working with you, your easy and friendly approach has been great!”
Lana HopeGeneral Manager - Native Garden Nursery, Turanga Group Holdings Ltd.