“Without change, there would be no butterflies…” - Maya Angelou
Change is the catalyst for transformation, and my mission is to empower individuals, teams, and organizations to embrace their unique colours and evolve into their best possible versions.
With people at the heart of everything I do, I coach leaders and managers to unlock their potential, help teams collaborate effectively, and guide organizations in fostering cultures that drive performance and connection.
In a world of constant change, it’s easy to feel stuck or overwhelmed. These challenges often trigger fight/flight/freeze/fawn responses that ripple through personal wellbeing, relationships, and organizational success..
Drawing on nearly 30 years of experience across global corporations, academia, and consulting, I bring proven frameworks, methodologies, and tools to amplify strengths and inspire growth. Together, we transform challenges into opportunities for lasting impact.
The first step to being the best leader you can be is increased awareness. Coaching brings clarity, focus and a structured way forward. I bring proven methodologies and many years of experience to tailor a 1:1 programme that accelerates you exceeding your goals.
A high performing team understands and appreciates each member and their strengths. I facilitate processes that boost the effectiveness and collaboration of teams and optimises their outcomes.
A positive organisational culture impacts every aspect of success. From engagement and motivation to productivity and turnover. I work with the internal teams to guide strategy, process and change programmes for meaningful transformations.
With a foundation in Psychology and 30+ years of experience, I’ve built a career centred on empowering people and organizations to thrive.
From leading roles at Cisco Systems to speaking at international conferences, serving as a director on the 'International Institute of Business Analysis' NZ chapter board, and founding Butterfly Business Consulting, I’ve combined expertise in Project Management, Business Analysis, Change Management and Leadership Development to drive transformational change.
My work includes contributing to Christchurch earthquake recovery efforts and creating and teaching a tertiary course in Business Analysis as well as consulting to organisations across a wide variety of industries.
A Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach since 2018, I’m passionate about unlocking potential through coaching, team development, and culture transformation—helping clients achieve meaningful growth and lasting impact.
"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."
“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.”
"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."
"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."
“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!”
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