kari-saddler

Coaching and Consulting Experience

Kari has over 20 years of combined experience as a consultant, coach and manager.  She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) by the ICF and spent 4 years as a Master Trainer teaching hundreds of coaches at one of the top coaching programs in the US. Kari has experience coaching leaders including managers, physician leaders, and executives. Her coaching specialties include assessments, new leader onboarding, employee engagement action plans, and the execution of wildly important goals.

In addition to her role as a coach, Kari is also a Senior Consultant with Franklin Covey and facilitates nearly all of their leadership curriculum. Participants in Kari’s classes consistently appreciate her ability to create and maintain an environment conducive to accelerated learning and meaningful development. Kari has experience coaching leaders through 360 Assessments, Employee Engagement action plans, and the execution of critical organizational goals.

Business Experience

Kari has served as a leader at JP Morgan Chase, WellCare, and at Tampa General Hospital. Prior to becoming a consultant, she was the Manager of Leadership Development at Tampa General Hospital. Her primary responsibility was to support the leadership team by developing a robust curriculum of courses for their personal and professional development. Kari successfully combined employee engagement and patient satisfaction initiatives to cultivate a thorough understanding of the connection between how employees and patients are treated. She was able to identify and remedy patterns of critical need across the organization by meeting regularly with all members of the executive leadership team. She frequently presented at retreats for managers, directors, physician leaders, boards, and administrators.

At JP Morgan Chase, Kari was a Training Officer responsible for identifying educational gaps within learning materials, creating reviews to enhance educational materials, assessing quality of needs analysis, reviewing learning objectives and testing advisor retention of information on multiple levels. She supported the research and development of 40 hours of training materials for more than 4,000 employees for conversion-related training classes to support 55 million credit card accounts.

Education and Certifications

Kari received her bachelor’s degree in English from The Ohio State University. She went on to obtain her MBA from Ohio Dominican University. She is certified in multiple type-theory tools including Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Predictive Index and DiSC. Kari has ten years of experience as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF).