We are a community of diverse people passionately engaged in achieving the purpose and fulfilling the vision of Karen Tax & Associates and IAM.

Associates actively work together with Karen developing IAM concepts through personal practice.

Collaborators are brought in on projects as needed.

Karen Tax | Owner

After several years as a software engineer, I got my Masters at AU/NTL in Organization Development, embarking on a journey to discover how I best learn and grow, and how to be a guide to others in the process of change. It took about a decade to realize that much of my formal learning could be tossed out – gradually I developed my own ideas and concepts based on what I saw actually working for me and my friends, family and clients.

I now work with innovative and leading-edge individuals and organizations, either coaching or consulting, to first and foremost remember their Essence as a way to best serve individual aliveness, the practical goals of their work or an organization and the well being of society. My clients know that change begins inside a person and are excited to learn how personal transformation can ripple out to create the joyful and prosperous experiences to which they aspire.

Visit www.karentax.com to learn more about Karen and her coaching and consulting.

Diane Craver | Associate

My career includes experience in Human Resources, Recruitment, Sales, Management, Customer Relationship Management, and Business Development. I ran a corporate division with $15M+ in revenue with full P&L responsibility. My clients include industries of technology, science, manufacturing, engineering, consumables, telecommunications, as well as individual and small business owners.

I enjoy combining my passion for people and business as a coach and consultant. Working with leaders and emerging leaders is what I’m passionate about – helping them become more clear and purposeful in their work and lives. I am a rock-solid supporter of people who want to grow and take full responsibility for their development.

I started my own coaching/consulting company after receiving my Business Coaching certification through Duke University in 2004. My company is Spring Forward Group – the name speaks for itself!

Please visit www.springforwardgroup.com/ to learn more about Diane and her service offerings.

Lorraine Cohen | Associate

I have a blended background in life coaching, psychological and spiritual counseling, and sales spanning three decades. I’ve worked with (and learned from) thousands of executives, managers, business owners, and entrepreneurs from a wide range of industries on business development, leadership proficiency, and personal enrichment.

Incorporating my counseling background with intuitive coaching, I help people capture the essence of what they really want. They learn to make intentional choices that fully integrate their heart, integrity, and spirituality into their business and their life. The critical key is self-awareness. Through the process of self-discovery, I guide them to overcome fear and resistance to become powerfull creators of their own life.

My clients know that I invest in my own personal and professional development and I’m walking right along with them! Often, what I’m working through, parallels what comes up in my client sessions. What fun that is!

I’ve been described as ‘direct with a velvet glove’ because I get to the heart of the matter quickly and hold people to their best. Helping people to see possibilities and opportunities rather than problems empowers them to deliberately move forward in ways that produce greater vitality and happiness in all aspects of their life!

Visit www.powerfull-living.biz to learn more about Lorraine and the services which she offers.

John Breckenridge | Collaborator

The sessions I create with people are loving and compassionate, highly focused and very playful. I believe that our journey of personal and collective transformation and growth is inherently joyful, and that our suffering is not inevitable.

My orientation is simultaneously practical and spiritual. I help people to empower themselves by helping them to remember the nature and “feel” of our true (human) power. That is the power to consciously and purposefully create our personal experience, both within ourselves and with others, exactly as we want it to be.

I work with a very limited number of clients in an intense process of powerful transformation. I am a completely committed, rock steady ally to individuals and groups who are ready to commit to a process of profound transformative engagement. I insist that those who want to work with me be fully and consistently willing to take constructive risks, to do whatever it takes in positive directions in order to create the changes they desire.

Steve Alston | Collaborator

As a workplace mediator, I offer guided discussions for change. My work in ‘removing obstacles’ is a result of my commitment to foster growth and new insight for myself and others. I have an appreciation for people and I enjoy creating interactions that result in deep personal development for everyone involved. I do this work in search of ‘a better way’. My desire to help people in discord has led me to work assignments in Canada, England, Germany, India and the United States. Through these experiences I continue to deepen my appreciation for collaborative efforts throughout the world.

My 23 years of workplace experiences serves as my greatest teacher and my formal training includes a BS Degree from NC State University along with a certification by the Mediation Training Institute International. I also serve on the Executive Committee of Directors for The Alliance of AIDS Services * Carolina. My wife, Jean and I currently live in Raleigh, NC.