Staff Consultants
Karen Solorow | Fellow Career Coach
Karen W. Solorow has significant experience both as a line manager (relationship and portfolio) and as an HR/Leadership Development professional, having worked for 25+ years in financial services and publishing. Solorow managed talent development and leadership initiatives including the highly regarded MBA Management Development Program for The McGraw-Hill Companies, responsible for recruiting, interviewing, hiring and developing top MBA emerging leadership talent for the organization. Currently, Solorow is Founder & President with her own leadership, career coaching and training & development consulting practice, Coaching For Success, LLC with a special emphasis on coaching women and minorities to leverage their skills to achieve success.
Previous positions included Vice President, Training & Development for Bankers Trust Company and Bank of Montreal/Harris Bank, where she transitioned from VP and Team Leader (managing a portfolio of clients) to Vice President, Talent Development. At BMO/Harris, Solorow also created and led a global MBA leadership development program. Solorow has been a guest speaker and moderator at industry conferences and has facilitated workshops focusing on interviewing, mentoring, communication skills and presentation skills at academic and corporate entities including Columbia Business School and Standard & Poor's. Solorow is also a professional resume writer.
Solorow received her MBA from the Simmons Graduate School of Management and her BA degree (with double majors in music and liberal arts) from Syracuse University. She serves as a corporate advisory board member with The Darden School of Business and The Career Resources Consortium and is a Board Advisor for ConceptLink Consulting.
