Karen Martin

Business performance expert and award-winning author of The Outstanding Organization

Karen Martin, President of the global consulting firm TKMG, Inc. and President and Founder of TKMG Academy, Inc., is a leading authority on business performance improvement, problem solving, and Lean management systems. Her clients have included Fortune 500 companies in nearly every industry and government agencies at local, state, and federal levels. She’s also the multiple award-winning author of Clarity First and four other books, and is a highly rated speaker.

Karen Martin Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
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Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
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Karen Martin Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
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Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
Texas, USA

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Clarity First

Clarity: It’s a simple concept and yet strikingly elusive. Lack of clarity collectively costs companies, educational institutions, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations billions of dollars per year, inserts unnecessary risk into every decision or action, ...

Clarity: It’s a simple concept and yet strikingly elusive. Lack of clarity collectively costs companies, educational institutions, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations billions of dollars per year, inserts unnecessary risk into every decision or action, drains organizations of the energy needed for productive effort, and causes customers to question whether the organization is capable of delivering value. Drawing on her latest book, Clarity First, Karen reveals how to use clarity to unleash potential, innovate at higher levels, and solve problems more effectively.

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Choose to Be Outstanding

Discover the essential ingredients that drive exceptional performance with this keynote based on Karen’s award?winning book, The Outstanding Organization. Learn how to strip away unnecessary complexity to enable the levels of performance and innovation that make an ...

Discover the essential ingredients that drive exceptional performance with this keynote based on Karen’s award?winning book, The Outstanding Organization. Learn how to strip away unnecessary complexity to enable the levels of performance and innovation that make an organization truly OUTSTANDING. Proven, practical, and surprisingly simple, Karen’s system focuses on four key behaviors for excellence—clarity, focus, discipline, engagement—that, once instilled into a company’s DNA, open the door to sustainable growth, profit, and a deeply engaged workforce.

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Delivering Value: A Human Need and a Business Mandate

All human beings want to give and receive value. Yet many organizations miss opportunities to generate deep engagement and loyalty from their customers, employees, and shareholders—both of which enable growth and scalability. Karen shares critical insights to achieve that ...

All human beings want to give and receive value. Yet many organizations miss opportunities to generate deep engagement and loyalty from their customers, employees, and shareholders—both of which enable growth and scalability. Karen shares critical insights to achieve that engagement and spark outstanding performance on both personal and organizational levels. This keynote draws on Karen’s 20+ years of guiding companies to use value creation to improve the bottom line and the human condition alike.

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About Keynote Speaker Karen Martin

Karen Martin, President of the global consulting firm TKMG, Inc. and President and Founder of TKMG Academy, Inc., is a leading authority on business performance improvement, problem solving, and Lean management systems.

Known for her keen diagnostic skills and rapid-results approach, Karen and her team have worked with clients—such as Adventist Health, AT&T, Chevron, Epson, GlaxoSmithKline, Goodwill Industries, International Monetary Fund, Lenovo, Mayo Clinic, Prudential Insurance, Qualcomm, and the United States Department of Homeland Security—to develop more efficient work systems, grow market share, solve business problems, and accelerate performance.

As a thought leader and skilled management coach, Karen has shaped how leaders and improvement professionals approach business performance in over 50 countries.

Karen’s broad understanding of work and management system design stems from her experience building and managing operations for rapid-growth organizations. She developed a keen understanding of customer value while serving in sales and marketing roles, and she has extensive experience mitigating legal and compliance constraints. Karen and her team work with clients in every sector; however, Karen has a particularly rich background in healthcare.

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Karen’s award-winning book, The Outstanding Organization, addresses the missing fundamentals that drive outstanding performance: Clarity, Focus, Discipline, and Engagement. Once instilled into an organization’s DNA, they open the door to sustainable growth and profit. Her most recent book, Clarity First, reveals how to use clarity to unleash potential, innovate at higher levels, and solve problems more effectively. It was a finalist in 800-CEO-READ’s Business Book of the Year. Karen is also the co-author of the Shingo Award-winning Value Stream Mapping and two other books on business performance improvement.

An in-demand global speaker, Karen wows her audiences with high-energy presentations containing practical takeaways. Audiences giving her high ratings have included groups such as MassMutual, Lenovo, Lincoln Financial Group, The Ohio State University, The Environmental Protection Agency, Young Presidents’ Organization, Society for Human Resource Management, and the Association for Manufacturing Excellence.