Karen Dietz, PhD works with leaders and executive teams who want to capture and tell their most compelling stories for greater influence. Her process derives from her expertise in the diverse fields of folklore, storytelling, creativity, strategy, organizational development, high performance teams, and interpersonal communications.
With her doctorate in Folklore, Karen has always been engaged with stories. When she moved from academics into business training, facilitating and consulting, she was always listening for, working with, and retelling stories as a part of her team building, org change, and leadership engagements. Karen draws on her experience in Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and non-profit organizations to provide practical experience, guidance, and tools in working with stories that can be put to work immediately. In addition, she and her husband were the first to create software programs generating Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) interpretive reports. Her comprehensive, strengths-based personality type reports for work environments are popular and sold world-wide.
Karen co-wrote the chapter on storytelling and financial management in one of the top ranked books on organizational stories Wake Me Up When The Data Is Over; How Organizations Use Stories to Generate Results (2006). She is also featured in the new book Storied Careers: 40+ Story Practitioners Talk About Applied Storytelling by Katherine Hansen (2009).
She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and is the former Executive Director of the National Storytelling Network.
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