About Karen...
MBA, Super Bowl Performer, Emotional Bridge™ Creator
From Marketing to a Million Dollar Movement!
My business foundation is built on 20+ years of corporate marketing experience, including leadership roles in retail, software, and higher education with the University of Michigan. After launching Indigo Blue Marketing, my truest test of entrepreneurship strategy came when I founded The Sergei Foundation. By applying my marketing acumen to a soulful mission, we reached seven figures in public gifts—turning a personal passion into a high-impact movement.
Performance Roots: Dancing at the Super Bowl
I’ve been speaking to audiences for decades as a business professor and media spokesperson, but my real training for performing on “stage” began much earlier. Teaching hip-hop and jazz dance honed my ability to read a room, cue with precision, and motivate an audience.
Fun Fact: My most memorable “gig” was performing as a dancer in the 1996 Super Bowl halftime show to the Doobie Brothers’ “China Grove.”
My Energetic GPS: 20 Years of Energy Study
As a Reiki Master Teacher and Certified Quantum Energy Practitioner, I’ve been bridging the gap between business and energy since 2002. It wasn’t until 2019 that I discovered the pivotal role emotions play in our overall wellbeing; they aren’t obstacles—they are your Energetic GPS. Integrating this truth changed my life from a struggle of force to a state of flow.
My Purpose Roots: Nature and Pets
My mission is rooted in a lifelong love for nature and animals. It’s what led me to create The Sergei Foundation and save thousands of pets. To keep my own “spark” bright, I lean into the simple joys: walks in nature, a good meal, and time at home with my husband, Phillip, and our furry companions.
From Force to Flourish…
For years, I did everything “right.” I had the MBA, an executive career, and the “just do it” determination. I was successful—but I wasn’t flourishing. I was achieving my goals (for what I thought I wanted), but I became emotionally reactive, frustrated, and felt empty. I knew how to think better, but I wasn’t feeling better. It took letting go of this old strategy for me to become open-minded to an easier way. My greatest teachers in that process? Nature and animals—especially my Siberian Husky, Sergei.
My Gen X upbringing conditioned me to view emotions as a weakness—a distraction to my goals—and that was the flaw in my previous strategy. Emotions are more like your soul’s SOS signals—or as I like to say: Emotions are our Soul’s Language.
I finally saw that what I called “determination” was actually desperation energy, and my “confidence” was often the vibration of over-compensation. This is why I never seemed to attract what I thought I was creating. There was a disconnect. That is where the Emotional Bridge Process™ begins. Emotions reconnect our mind’s strategy with our soul’s wisdom.
Why I’m here: I translate complex energy and physics concepts into relatable stories and parables, so you discover your Emotional Bridge. Whether I’m speaking to an audience of professionals or a classroom of students, my mission is the same: To reconnect you with your natural instincts and embody joy. Ready to find your spark for life again and emotionally flourish?
