Strategic Development Initiatives, LLC is dedicated to helping
individuals and organizations achieve their highest potential and the outcomes they seek by providing training, development, and coaching services.
Coaching Helps People Reach Their Peak Potential.
About Coaching

Coaching is an engaging, collaborative, and forward focused practice with the aim of helping clients achieve personal and professional goals. Employing a variety of tools and practices, coaching facilitates the learning and change necessary for clients to achieve outcomes they seek but have not yet found a way to accomplish. Coaching helps clients gain a broadened perspective, enabling them to “see” what has not been visible to them before and opens up possibilities and choices not previously recognized.

Coaching is not therapy or advice giving but is a partnership based on the premise that the client is whole, complete and resourceful and that the solutions already exist within them. Coaching helps clients uncover, challenge and dismantle obstacles and barriers that have prevented them from reaching their goals


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About Karen

Karen McGee, Chief Development Officer and Principal of Strategic Development Initiatives, LLC, is a graduate of the Newfield Network Certified Coach Training Program. She is currently a member of the Newfield Ambassador Corps, Membership Director for the Denver Coach Federation and belongs to the International Coach Federation.

Karen spent almost 20 years creating and leading sales teams in biopharmaceutical organizations before becoming a professional leadership coach.  She has experience working with organizations in varying stages of development and ranging in size from under 100 employees to over 50,000. While in the corporate setting, Karen led sales teams through many challenging circumstances and turbulent organizational change such as mergers, reorganizations, and rapid growth while still delivering outstanding team sales results.

Karen is passionate about establishing a culture of individual and team leadership in a trust based environment so each member of the team is thriving, fully engaged, and working collaboratively with others to achieve individual and organizational goals that far exceed expectations. She is skilled in leadership and personnel development, performance management, conflict resolution, training, and facilitation as well as a broad array of communication skills.  She particularly enjoys working with newly promoted sales managers who are struggling with the challenges of their new positions or who are anxious to improve their leadership skills. Working with individuals dealing with loss, change, and transitions in their work and personal lives is another area of special interest for Karen.

To find out more about working with Karen, please call 303 465-5453 or email: karen@strategicdevelcoach.com



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Testimonials

W orking with Karen really helped direct me to find my way.  She didn’t counsel me, or tell me right from wrong, but through various exercises and lots of listening, she guided me to reach within and learn more about me.  I met Karen when I was at a point in life that I felt lost and confused with my career and relationships.  After our sessions, I left feeling alive and driven to accomplish the next best thing for myself.  Since meeting Karen, I have found a new direction in my career, taken initiative in having difficult conversations with co-workers or family members, and discovered more confidence in my direction in life!  Thanks Karen, I really appreciate all your support! –  Kendra S.

I thought life coaching meant career development or therapy…I started with Karen as my “life coach” not knowing…after “working” with her several months, I began to learn exactly what life coaching was…it is, with guidance, learning about yourself…good things and difficult things.  Things I never even knew about myself.   She didn’t tell me what was wrong; she didn’t tell me how to fix things…she gently guided me to myself and I discovered all sorts of things about myself.  I picked out things I wanted to work on and she gave me the tools to get there that would work for me.  It was challenging and uncomfortable at times…she said, “growing can be challenging-are you up for it?  Are you up for the journey?”  I was and am…it ‘s a journey.   I feel so different…more connected, more in touch.  I understand why I feel the way I do.  I am working on a couple of challenging places for me and I have the tools and insight to do that…I took a break from coaching for a while-that gave me time to research a bit more on all of this and work with the things I have learned.  The results have been so huge for me…I am ready to discover more… –  Deb Durand

After suffering much loss over the past few years and losing my sense of direction for my life, I was able to see clearly the passion and purpose for my life with Karen’s help. Her guidance using ontology [ontological coaching] helped me approach various challenges from a different perspective and continues to empower and elevate my being to a healthier space. I will seek Karen’s expertise and experience every time the need beckons.  Saved from myself. – Dorothy R.


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