About Karen Keller, Ph.D.

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The Inventor Of “Influence It!” May Very Well Be The World’s First Influence, Leadership, Persuasion, and Success Expert Primarily Focusing On Women.

About Dr. Keller

Karen Keller, Ph.D. is an expert in women’s leadership and assertiveness training. She specializes in the skills of influence and persuasion, executive coaching, mentoring, sales techniques, management development training, personal life coaching, and corporate training. Discover the Real POWER for Women now!

Biography

For twenty-five years, CEOs worldwide have been looking over the shoulder of the high level performance coach because of Dr. Keller’s proven track record in helping organizations and employees at companies such as American Express, Pizza Hut, and Indiana University Purdue University improve productivity, peer communication and profits.

Dr. Keller (or simply “Karen”, as her friends call her) came to be known as “The Influence Expert” after her uncanny insights to human behavior helped to affect state policy decision-making in the courtroom and seal multi-million dollar deals in the boardroom.

Raised on a farm in Northern Minnesota in a family with six siblings, Karen’s father called her a ‘natural influencer’ when she was fourteen. Despite a lack of cash and customers, Karen persuaded the local youth organization to open a summer tennis camp. The camp turned a profit for the next 10 years.

After earning undergraduate degrees in natural science, Latin and psychology from The University of North Dakota, Karen worked as a tennis instructor, chemist, and heart researcher before developing a musical studio called “Keller’s Kids” teaching piano instruction and music classes to ninety children.

She noticed her students weren’t only learning from her at an educational level. The relationship was much deeper and more heartfelt than that.

In Karen’s own words…
“It was there in a small town that I went in search of influence and discovered it was me.”

Karen responded to this calling for intimate connection by getting a Masters Degree from The University of North Dakota and then a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from The Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

One day in 1999, after working as a Rehabilitation Director and then opening a private practice, she read the book From Couch to Corporation. Within six weeks, Karen had transformed her clinical practice to a coaching practice, “The Executive Coach”. And later, received the industry’s highest level of coaching certification, “Master Certified Coach”.

Mission

While Dr. Keller was consulting for major global and Fortune 500 companies as an Executive Coach, she realized that the majority of executive clientele where men. What’s more, the men were excelling by using one specific coaching tool: Influence.

Dr. Keller new then and there what she needed to do. Realizing her proven Influence It! method was designed—and used—successfully by a woman in her own business (herself), she created a program specifically geared towards female executives which encouraged them to use influence to obtain professional (and personal) strides. And it worked!

Philosophy

Dr. Keller firmly believes that when it comes to Real POWER for Women, every woman owes it to herself to have exactly what she wants. “Second best” and “almost” are not options for this creative spark plug who loves showing clients the secrets of using their natural power of influence as a woman—not “acting more like a man”—to excel in personal and professional life.

Her current book, Stepping Stones to Success is due out this winter. In it, she identifies the life turning point all women share that is rarely addressed in self-help books and offers Influence It! advice that helps see the ritual for what it is: a source of lifetime empowerment. Three amazing teachers—Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield and Dr. Denis Waitley—are also featured.