A fellow leader who points the way and walks it with you.
As an embedded partner I work alongside founders, small business owners, and nonprofit leaders– as a peer, not a vendor– understanding your organization, suggesting ideal paths, and building plans, mechanisms, and momentum that keep your work moving forward long after our project is done.
A partner with specialized skills who gets in the thick of it with you.
You benefit from organizational understanding that’s been developed through twenty-five years across media, academia, nonprofits and founder-led businesses, distilled into a core practice: building things that hold.
I measure success by what keeps working once your team is running it themselves.
Track Record
TEDxPortsmouth
Now in top 50 of roughly 3,500 TEDx events worldwide with annual ticket sell-out in as little as 25 minutes.
Eight years leading org design, operations, partnerships, and a 19-person team. Current Executive Producer & Licensee.
10 to Watch
12 consecutive years. Zero cycles skipped— not even 2020 or 2021.
120+ winners honored. Conceived and built from scratch in 2013 then stepped back- and the program never missed a beat.
Planet Rangers
Replaced paper-and-memory operations with financial and knowledge systems that don’t depend on any one person. When COVID hit, those systems enabled modeling a virtual pivot that was launched with confidence in weeks.
The transformation held after she left: a documented handoff to named successors and Summer Rangers now fills every slot the morning registration opens, at 2x demand.
WBZ NewsRadio
$2.5M in sales, 50+ annual accounts 2001–2004. Zero client attrition when she left.
Hand-picked successors and rebuilt every relationship around them before departure.
Credentials
· MBA, Organizational Development & Strategy- UNH Paul College [Click to Access Independent Study Summary: Community Convection] · Harvard Online, Big Data for Social Good · Leadership New Hampshire, Alum · Leadership Seacoast, Alum
About Kaarin
For 25+ years, Kaarin has been the person organizations call when the work has to hold– across media, nonprofits, and founder-led businesses.
She works alongside the people already doing the work, not around them– building capacities that last long after she’s gone.
She thinks about organizations the way living systems thinkers do: not as machines to fix, but as ecosystems to strengthen.
