About Us
KM Leadership Solutions transforms businesses and leaders as they face their most difficult changes. We provide mergers and acquisitions integration, business turnaround consulting, executive coaching, and board governance consulting.
Our CEO and president, Karen K. Mildenhall, shaped the KM Leadership Solutions mission during her corporate tenure. Her deep experience transforming businesses, guiding boards, and completing mergers and acquisitions integrations provides distinctive insights and solutions. She now sits on three private company boards—one family-owned and two ESOP-owned. Her leadership, governance, and risk management skills, paired with advising nearly 100 boards, create a singular perspective.
We help business leaders reach their goals by combining science with the art of leadership and coaching as she works with clients ready to grow into a bright future.
World-Class M&A and Turnaround Business Consultant
Karen delivers world-class consulting services to a variety of domestic and global clientele. Her experience with industry-leading clients gives her a unique perspective on leadership, strategy, team dynamics, and how to create extraordinary results. Most recently, she served as Executive Vice President/Resident Managing Director at Aon.
Karen completed all requirements and was awarded the following designation: IM&A 2022.
Certified Professional Coach
She received her Certified Professional Coach designation from the International Coach Federation approved Center for Coaching Certification in 2016.
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Board of Directors
Karen has over 20 years of board experience and more than 15 years consulting private, public, and not-for-profit boards. She is a transformational leader with multinational experience and a record of collaboratively creating strategies with high performance leaders, teams, and organizations.
When organizations look for a non-status quo board member who knows governance, risk management, M&A, strategic planning, and board development, Karen is the top pick.
Karen K. Mildenhall
PRESIDENT/CEO
Karen is a 27-year veteran of executive leadership in financial services with Fortune 500 companies. Tagged as a high-potential leader, she took on her first corporate leadership role in her 20s. Karen quickly proved what change leaders could do with apparently hopeless situations. Building high-performance boards and teams while delivering rapid, sustained turnaround results became her professional brand. She led more than a dozen turnarounds of underperforming operations, products, and teams.
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