Karen Wilhelm Buckley

Karen Wilhelm Buckley is Co-Director and Founder of the Wisdom Connection as well as the founder and Director of the Wisdom Leadership Initiative, www.wisdomleadership.org. Her work to develop an integrated wisdom, one that includes the best of the masculine and feminine, has informed her speaking, publishing, coaching and consulting since 1980.

Along with a team of remarkable women, Karen hosted a series of women’s forums exploring the questions about the relationship of feminine wisdom and leadership. The Women’s Forums, Honoring the Wisdom and Power of Women Leaders, were held in San Francisco in 2003 and Switzerland in 2005 with Spirit in Business International, [www.spiritinbusiness.org], and in Santa Barbara in 2004 at the World Business Academy, [www.worldbusinessacademy.org], “Global Mind Change” conference.

In addition, as Founder and Principle of Communicore Consulting [link www.communicore.biz], Karen works with leaders with powerful missions to help them accomplish those missions. As a consultant, trainer, and leadership coach since 1979, she has partnered with non-profit, government and for-profit endeavors to expand their rich potential, build thriving businesses, and establish cooperative hi-leverage partnerships. Entrepreneurs and small business owners create high impact sustainable results in their organizations, communities, and lives as they develop strategies, capacities, and tools through Karen’s personalized coaching.

Karen is a published author and public speaker in the fields of organizational change, wisdom leadership, feminine wisdom, and women’s leadership. She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and a Founding Board member of the Spirit in Business Institute.

Because of a passion for spirit-based whole-child education she co-founded the GreenWood [link www.greenwoodschool.org] School in 1992, an innovative Waldorf inspired elementary school that continues to thrive today. Her two college-age children, husband, dog, and cockatiel keep her fully engaged when at home in Mill Valley, California where she has lived for eighteen years.

“The depth and breadth of an integrated wisdom in our leaders, balanced in the feminine and masculine, is essential to building a healthy and sustainable world. This life-affirming wisdom resides in each of us, centered in our sphere of vital and powerful relationships -- with spirit, family, friends, earth, community, and all life.”Karen Buckley