Helping your organization be more successful and a great place to work

M Karp Consulting is focused on executive coaching, talent management and people strategy. We're here to help you identify and execute the right strategy for you to attract, develop, assess, and retain talent.

Our services

Executive Coaching

Provide outside, unbiased perspectives on management, career progression, and specific development needs
Increase manager self-awareness

Do your high potential employees have an experienced thought partner helping them navigate towards their continued success? Do YOU?

Performance Management

Ensure effective formal & informal evaluation mechanisms
Establish unbiased, outcome-based metrics

Do you have a performance management process that recognizes and rewards talent?

Training and Development

Learn strategies for giving and receiving feedback
Update onboarding training
Develop ongoing skill-building and new manager trainings
Institute fruitful mentorship and apprenticeship practices

Do you have the capability and skills to support the business's objectives and initiatives?

Have you developed a robust and effective training and development strategy for all employees?

Compensation and Benefits

Ensure competitiveness
Utilize total rewards, beyond cash compensation, in compensation packages

Have you developed a compensation and benefits program that is competitive?

Are you prepared for the fact that the job market has become more competitive by offering higher wages, more desirable hours, improved benefits and increased hybrid and remote work opportunities?

Values and Culture

Craft statements of culture
Build cultures of inclusion and belonging
Refine management practices, policies, and training

Do you have a clear set of values to guide your business objectives?

Retention and Attraction

Create employee engagement strategies
Tailor candidate communication to employee value proposition

Have you developed an engagement strategy for your organization?

Do you have a retention strategy for key talent?

Do you have a value proposition for your organization that's attracting the talent you need to excel?

Who we are

Our Vision

Workplaces that make people happy

Our Mission

To help organizations thrive while increasingly prioritizing employee well-being; incorporating a sense of purpose, inclusion, listening, and care to employees' experiences

Our Values

01

Relationships matter

Strive for and expect kindness. Assume good intent.

02

Find the win-wins

Dig deeper for a solution that maximizes everyone's outcomes.

03

Honest and forthright

Success may require tough answers and potentially even tougher questions.

04

Focus on solutions and action

Bring theory in service to your goals, but keep a focus on what is actionable and solvable.

Meet our Founder

Michelle Karp

Michelle Karp is a human-centric leader specializing in problem-solving, relationship-building, and performance excellence. She has a knack for evaluating situations, quickly determining bottlenecks, and finding sustainable solutions.

Tapping into her years of strategy consulting and building and nurturing organizations, she provides services through her consulting company, M Karp Consulting. Michelle develops strategies and programs that grow or transform businesses through the intentional alignment of people with company values.

Before founding M Karp Consulting, Michelle was the Chief Operating Officer for Sterling Associates, a boutique consulting firm. She spearheaded culture, human resource administration, recruiting, project staffing, and performance management initiatives. During her tenure at Sterling Associates, Michelle orchestrated and assimilated a 16% growth in headcount. As COO, she was instrumental in tackling internal and client-facing processes and structural aspects of the company’s go-to-market and delivery capabilities.

Michelle’s consulting impact began at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. She collaborated with C-suite executives and led consulting teams on healthcare, retail, manufacturing, and logistics engagements. Michelle focused on building relationships, developing strategies, working across diverse industries with diverse people, and combining her scientific, analytical, and teaching background to help organizations excel.

Michelle earned a Master of Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, a Master of Education from Boston College in Boston, MA, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Miami University in Oxford, OH.

In addition to being a business consultant, Michelle is an avid traveler, having lived abroad as a child and spent a year traveling internationally with her husband. She is a regular board game player (and winner!) and is enthralled by science fiction and fantasy books. In addition, Michelle takes great pride in being a Mom to three curious, dynamic, and active daughters.