Karen Gordon

Karen Gordon is the founder of Strategic Horizons, Inc., providing strategic, organizational, and communication guidance, as well as executive coaching, to a wide range of companies.

Karen has served as a coach and faculty member for the MTC Program (formerly the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program) since 2011.

Her three decades of consulting experience includes six years at McKinsey & Company, where she led teams in strategic planning and organizational development. Karen has designed and delivered numerous leadership development workshops, addressing topics such as structured strategic thinking, effective communications, presentation skills, and personality profiles.

Karen is an expert in delivering the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which she masterfully uses in conjunction with personality Temperament Patterns.  She is an expert in linking personal leadership to performance outcomes critical to the success of the MTC program.  Karen holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

In addition, Karen is the author of The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust, published by the University of Tennessee Press as part of its Legacies of War series.