Karen Valencic
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Karen Valencic

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Best-selling author and speaker Karen Valencic is the founder of Spiral Impact®, a leadership and team development company. With a distinctive blend of martial arts and physics, Karen's work leaves a lasting impression. With three decades of cultivating high-performing teams, her content is rich with insights and practical strategies. Additionally, her thirty years of martial arts practice infuses an artistic flair into her presentations, while her background as a degreed engineer ensures the utmost practicality in her teachings. One of her notable achievements is the best-selling book, "The Black Belt Edition of Spiral Impact: The Power to Get It Done with Grace," which has captivated readers with its empowering message.

Karen's speaking experience over 25+ years includes a wide diversity of audiences, including numerous SHRM groups, ATD (Association of Talent Development) groups, LillyX, Medical Group Management National, Federation of Associations of Regulatory Boards, National Association of State Contractors Licensing Agencies, Women Heart, United Way Regional, Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership International Conference(3x), American College of Healthcare Executives Congress, Animal Welfare National Conference, Healthcare BusinessWomen Association, Indiana University Health Executive Board, several churches and numerous healthcare teams.

Karen has also worked deeply in organizations developing high-performing teams. Her method is third-party validated, showing her engagement moved 11 of 12 poor-performing teams to the highest level.

For over three decades, Karen has been a devoted student and teacher of Aikido, the Japanese art of reconciliation. Aikido finds power in position rather than force. Spiral Impact is grounded in these concepts. She holds a Nidan Blackbelt rank.

Before establishing Spiral Impact, Valencic spent ten years working as a project engineer in product development at Delco Remy, a division of General Motors. She earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Tri-State University in Angola, IN.

Karen served on the HealthCare Businesswomen Association (HBA) of Indiana Board as the Director of Mentoring. She is a past board member of Spotlight On Nursing, which raised funds for advanced degree nursing scholarships.

She is also Past-President of the Central Indiana Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development (now ATD), where she served on the board for six years, and a former adjunct faculty member with the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, Roche Diagnostics, and IU Health. Karen has also been a mentor at the Butler University College of Business for six years and taught in their Honors program for eight years.
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