Achieving excellence.

EMPOWERING EXECUTIVES

BY KAREN R. MCDANIEL, Ph.D.

Lead authentically.
Collaborate efficiently.
Perform at the next level.

The mission behind Empowering Executives is to help leaders and organizations to unlock their full potential. Through Dr. Karen McDaniel’s expert support and tailored solutions, she transforms leadership challenges into opportunities for growth and success.

What Karen Offers

Executive 
Consulting

Improve your leadership’s synergy and impact through personalized support, behavioral assessments, and actionable solutions.

Leadership Training and Development

Enhance your communication skills, improve your emotional intelligence, build a growth mindset, and much more. For teams or individuals.

Speaking Engagements

Inspire, challenge, and elevate your leadership to new heights through her dynamic, expert speaking engagements.

Who She Works With

Empowering Executives partners with CEOs, presidents, C-suite teams, academic leaders, and other high-level leaders who want to grow both personally and professionally. 

Being a leader comes with many responsibilities and pressures. Karen can support you and/or your leadership team’s ongoing development and skill set by focusing in the following areas:

  • Emotional Intelligence

  • Conflict Resolution

  • Win-Win Solutions

  • Effective Communication

  • Powerful Presentation Skills

  • Enhanced Confidence

Whether you are looking to elevate your leadership capabilities, strengthen your team’s dynamics, or combat stress and burnout, Karen will act as your trusted guide, empowering you to discover your next best steps.

Behavioral Assessments

Understanding how you lead and what motivates you is crucial to growing as a leader. With Karen’s certifications through TTI Success Insights, she offers three research-backed, award-winning behavioral assessments designed to help your people–and your organization–reach their full potential. By collecting these insights, you can invest in your team and build a better organization that prioritizes both individual and collective success.

  • This assessment measures how a person does what they do through four behavioral factors: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Compliance.

  • This assessment explores motivation and engagement through six factors, measuring why a person does what they do.

  • This assessment measures individual employee engagement and provides a balanced, holistic, science-based model that promotes trust, shared purpose, and improved performance among your workforce.

Meet Dr. Karen McDaniel

Speaker. Author. Executive Coach and Consultant.

Karen has made a career out of turning complex leadership challenges into opportunities for unparalleled growth. In addition to founding Empowering Executives, she held significant tenure at higher education institutions in Tennessee, Virginia, and Arkansas where she served as Associate Professor of Management, Department Chair, Director of Community Engagement, and Faculty Athletics Representative. She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management and has been published in a variety of leading academic and industry journals. 

She has served both regionally and nationally through her board positions on her local Chamber of Commerce, SHRM, and United Way, as well as on the NCAA FARA Executive Committee. Karen’s background in academia, combined with her hands-on leadership development experience, provides a robust framework for her understanding of organizational and executive effectiveness. At Empowering Executives, she fulfills her passion for empowering leaders by fostering a collaborative environment where they can share insights, challenge assumptions, and drive growth both personally and professionally.

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CONTACT KAREN

Ready to supercharge your leadership and drive growth for your organization?

Get in touch with Karen using the form below or via email. She will then schedule a call to discuss your goals and help determine which services will best meet your needs.