Karen Ball
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Founder & Principal
United States
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Founder and PrincipalKVB Consulting LLCApr 2025 - Current (1 year 3 months)As Founder and Principal of KVB Consulting, Karen Ball combines decades of experience in information technology, organizational leadership, and change management with the proven methodology of The B❒X® Experience. She helps leaders and teams spark mindset shifts that strengthen alignment, accelerate adoption, and inspire innovation to achieve breakthrough results.- Senior Fellow and Executive InstructorProsciApr 2023 - Current (3 years 3 months)Helping leadership and project teams deliver the desired benefits from change - both incremental and transformational - by adopting the mindsets, toolsets, processes, and practices necessary for success. As a result, they improve change resiliency and agility for themselves, their teams and their organizations.
- EVP, Research Product & MarketingProsciApr 2020 - Feb 2023 (2 years 11 months)Leading product and service development and marketing with passion and purpose. (1) Understanding and anticipating problems clients are facing, (2) Developing solutions that leverage Prosci’s unique ability to deliver value, (3) Delighting customers with innovative solutions that drive change success.
- Director Of DevelopmentProsciAug 2018 - Mar 2020 (1 year 8 months)
- Director of Solution Design & Digital ExperienceProsciFeb 2018 - Aug 2018 (7 months)
- Solution Portfolio ManagerProsciMar 2016 - Feb 2018 (2 years)Karen is the Solution Portfolio Manager at Prosci. Karen specializes in the design, development and delivery of change management learning programs from both a thought leadership and adult learning perspective.
- Managing Director, Change Management Practice LeadGimmalOct 2008 - Feb 2016 (7 years 5 months)
- Senior Sales AssociateEastman Kodak CompanyAug 1983 - Jun 1989 (5 years 11 months)
- COwnerClarity IncAug 1991 - Oct 2008 (17 years 3 months)
- WMarketing Operations ManagerWang Laboratories IncJun 1989 - Jul 1991 (2 years 2 months)
Education
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- UMaster of Business Administration (MBA, MarketingUniversity of Chicago Graduate School of BusinessJan 1985 - Dec 1990 (6 years)
- Bachelor of Science (B.S, Marketing/Decision SciencesMiami UniversityJan 1979 - Dec 1983 (5 years)
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- WWhat's your ADKAR Story - PROSCI Book publication 2024I shared my experience with ADKAR and its impact on my professional journey and the projects I worked on as an Organizational change leader. My story was part of 50 ADKAR stories mentioned in PROSCI's latest book, The ADKAR Advantage: Your New Lens for Successful Change written by Karen Ball. The book expands on the insights and updates the research presented in ADKAR: A Model for Change © 2006. The stories bring to life the application, impact and outcomes of this powerful yet simple model used globally to drive individual and organizational change. The book contains an in-depth exploration of the model, sharing first-hand ADKAR stories, and provides helpful resources grounded in Prosci’s world-class benchmarking research.
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- wThe Adkar Advantage; Your New Lens for Successful ChangewwwProscicomApr 2024I was honored to be asked to contribute to this great work with my ADKAR story.