“Karin has been invaluable in roles ranging from a consultant to multi-billion dollar organizations transforming their businesses to a coach for individuals who are transforming their careers. Her subject matter expertise, ability to think at the highest strategic levels, thoughtful assessment of individual strengths and challenges, and compassionate professionalism have made her a superb coach and mentor. She has a grasp of the requirements for success in multiple industries and and therefore her contributions to clients spans the range of business but with a keen sense of the person and their individual needs.”

“Karin Stawarky partnered with me on an innovation initiative aimed at optimizing our customer experience across channels. She worked across business lines to engage senior leaders from across the enterprise to design a new vision and translate that vision into a new operational reality. Karin excels at developing powerful, trust-based partnerships at the senior levels of an organization and skillfully integrates her deep strategy expertise with organizational experience and know-how. Since implementing the recommendations, we have seen significant increases in customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and speed to market. ”

“Those of us in the field of Human Resources and Organization Development understand the importance of strategic clarity, aligned and efficient organization structures, and supportive people practices. Karin Stawarky of Spark Partners gets all of these—in meaningful depth. The larger challenge is that this process and thinking is relatively straightforward though admittedly, often difficult to accomplish. The higher ground in individual, team and organization change—in the pursuit of strategic excellence and ultimately, high performance—is the context in which this all happens. Recursively, this means understanding the strategic landscape in which an enterprise operates, both the organization and process implications of declaring strategic intent, and the full range of psycho-social elements to strategy-drivin, culture-creating people systems. Spark Partners gets these too—in differentiating and unique depth. For this reason, I choose their partnership on projects from my highest level executive development and chartering needs to individual team assessment and coaching—and will continue to…”

“Working with Karin Stawarky during a critical time in our company’s history was one of the best investments we ever made. She is a phenomenal partner with respect to her ability to help our organization make fundamental changes in response to a very challenging and rapidly changing market. Unlike other consultants we’ve worked with, Karin had a deep understanding of the unique dynamics of our business model as well as an appreciation for our stakeholder culture. Her sensitivity around the need to preserve and sustain core organizational values, I believe, led to a much stronger collaboration and sense of trust between Karin and our team. Her extensive knowledge and experience, as well as her ability to convene learning conversations for us with diverse companies within and outside of our industry, were invaluable to our organization during a time when we were engaged in an enterprise wide, cross functional effort to shift our strategic, operational and financial trajectory to improve our competitive position and realize long term sustainability. Karin was a key success factor in the positive results we had as a result of this work.”

“Working with Karin really has been transformational....I would unequivocally recommend Karin for any executive who needs coaching. She has an uncanny ability to ask the right questions and observe a situation from outside to get to the heart of an issue.”

“The experience, personal credibility and accountability that Karin brings to her executive coaching clients is bar none. She provides a clarity to the process, an approach that leaders can buy into and most importantly, she gains results. Karin brings to each of her engagements a clarity of the goals, a confidential and supportive ear and as a result, her clients have a clearer understanding of how they can best contribute to their organization’s success.”