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Karen Sands, MCC: The Everyday Futurist
Your Ultimate Guide to the FutureSM
Author, Speaker & ICF Master Certified Coach
Founder of Future Works Institute and AgingForTheFuture.com
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I. Overview
- Professional Futurist
- Author
- Professional Public Speaker
- ICF Master Certified Coach
- TED Fellow Coach
- Boomer & Midlife Expert>
- Master Educator & Trainer
- Career Counselor
- Strategist & Change Agent
- President & Founder of Future Works Institute, Ltd., Sands & Associates, LLC,
and AgingForTheFuture.com - Certified Gerontologist
As the Everyday FuturistSM, I use scientific, strategic, and intuitive forecasting skills and tools to show clients and audiences how to capitalize on tomorrow’s trends today to achieve personal, professional, and global transformation with a focus on the triple bottom line: People, Planet & Profits.
As the Founder of AgingForTheFuture.com, I teach Boomers and others approaching midlife and beyond how we can reinvent ourselves, and the aging process, to live more boldly, more visibly, more purposefully than ever before, changing what aging means for ourselves and for generations to come.
I have spent almost four decades coaching, educating, and training those who imagine a greater future. As the President of Future Works Institute, a successful coaching, futuring, and educational company, I have been delivering a message of sustainable revitalization, continuous quality improvement, transformation, and expanded consciousness in midlife and beyond since 1988.
In short, I work with smart, savvy, accomplished women and men who are visionaries-in-the-making, looking to reinvent their lives in ways that save the planet.
II. Writing
I’ve written several eBooks based on my insights into and experiences with midlife transition, reinvention, and executive transformation:
- The Greatness Challenge
- Mastering Midlife Reinvention
- Visionaries Have Wrinkles
- Great Old Broads Speak Out
- Crossing the Canyon
I am also the publisher of the eletter Future Works® Gazette and have authored numerous articles, including
- “Reinvention to Renewal”
- “Bottom-Line Soul”
- “Course Correction”
- “Midlife in the Fast Lane”
- “Shaman at Work”
- Click here for more.
III. Speaking and Media Appearances
I have spoken at a number of forums and workshops about the New Millennium Workplace, current trends, coaching, futuring, visionary leadership, personal and global change, and of course my specialty, the “Boomer Boom”—midlife and the coming reinvention of retirement. I’ve been a featured guest on various radio and television talk shows and interviewed by
- CNN
- Wall Street Journal
- Cosmopolitan
- Washington Post
- Litchfield Times
- Boston Globe
- Technorati
IV. Education and Background
- Master Level Coach, certified by the prestigious
International Coach Federation Credentialing
Committee. One of approximately 600 Master Certified Coaches worldwide. - Member of the International Coach Federation
- Founding member of Coachville.com
- Named to Connecticut’s Permanent
Commission on the Status of Women
Advisory Council - Advisor to the Hudson Institutes’s
Workforce 2000 Task Force - Invited reporter to the White House at the
White House Conference on Aging - Consultant to the White House Task Force on
Innovative Learning - Certified Career, Life & Retirement Counselor
- Certified Gerontologist, Hunter
University/Brookdale Center on Aging - Previously Adjunct Professor at Hunter
College/Brookdale - Member of the American Society on Aging
- Member of Retirement Income Industry’s
Association (RIIA) and membership committee - Past Member of the Association of
Spirit at Work – Steering Committee - Member of World Future Society
- Member of Association of Professional Futurists
- Post Masters in Adult Development & Aging – Hunter College/Brookdale
- BS in Human Development, Biological Sciences and Education
- Certified Hypnotherapist
- Ordained Minister
- Master Superlearning Teacher and Trainer
- Expressive Arts, Voice Dialogue and
Core Energetics Therapist and Teacher - Advanced training in human potential, self-development, growth and aging,
business, strategic marketing, direct response marketing,
sciences, psychology, consciousness and spirituality,
coaching, career planning & counseling, education & training, etc.
Professional Background:
- Educator, Master Coach & Career Strategist, Professional Futurist, Midlife Expert, Entrepreneur/Founder of jewelry company, personal & professional growth centers, Corporate Vice-President.
- A Change-Maker, Start-Up, and Turn-Around Specialist in financial services company for ten years specializing in the Boomer Boom and retirement services, Entrepreneur/Founder of Future Works Institute, Ltd., Sands & Associates, LLC, and AgingForTheFuture.com.
V. Specialties
Futuring, executive and leadership coaching, reinvention, conscious aging and midlife greatness, consciousness and transformation, course correction and self-mastery at any age & stage, continuous quality improvement, sustainability, optimal performance, career, life, and retirement transitions and planning.
VI. Clients
Leaders of all kinds: Individuals, partnerships and teams, senior executives—established or emerging visionary leaders, audacious entrepreneurs, family-run business owners, independent and corporate professionals, advisors (e.g., lawyers, accountants, financial and investment advisors and planners), actors & directors, MDs, healers, scientists, authors, coaches & therapists, those in transition—leaving or returning to the workforce . . . and those ramping up or downshifting at the helm.
Current and former clients include individuals from
- JP Morgan Chase
- Equitable/AXA
- IBM
- American Express
- Metropolitan Life
- Association of Association Executives
- NAFE
- AIG
- McKinsey
- New York Life
- Arthur Anderson/Accenture
- Wall Street Journal
- Harry & David
- Senior-level professionals from a wide variety of industries, including: advertising and public relations, accessories and jewelry, universities and associations, retail & merchandising, dot.coms, coaching, radio and television, law, financial services, wellness and medicine, sports and entertainment, etc.
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