Karen Tibbals

Karen Tibbals

MA Religion, MBA Marketing

NJ, US
Learn new truths about human nature and leave with new tools.

Karen Tibbals is a passionate researcher and author who came to writing books after studying why people act the way they do for decades as part of her successful corporate career in marketing researcher.

She took a detour from her career for a degree in Religion and Quaker Studies from Earlham School of Religion. She was so excited about what she learned that it totally changed how she thought about life! To capture these thoughts, she written two books about how these theories apply to life and to marketing and marketing research.

She has used those theories in developing the Ethical Frames model and its applications. She gives speeches and workshops to help people apply the Ethical Frames model to today's issues. She also has been studying what experts in various fields have to say about how we can talk to each other and captures those thoughts in her newsletter: Mending Fractured Relationships.

She makes her home amidst the Christmas tree farms and corn fields of Northwestern New Jersey with her college sweetheart but is available to travel to help your group be able to apply the Ethical Frames model to your situation.

Karen Tibbals is a passionate researcher and author who came to writing books after studying why people act the way they do for decades as part of her successful corporate career in marketing researcher.

She took a detour from her career for a degree in Religion and Quaker Studies from Earlham School of Religion. She was so excited about what she learned that it totally changed how she thought about life! To capture these thoughts, she written two books about how these theories apply to life and to marketing and marketing research.

She has used those theories in developing the Ethical Frames model and its applications. She gives speeches and workshops to help people apply the Ethical Frames model to today's issues. She also has been studying what experts in various fields have to say about how we can talk to each other and captures those thoughts in her newsletter: Mending Fractured Relationships.

She makes her home amidst the Christmas tree farms and corn fields of Northwestern New Jersey with her college sweetheart but is available to travel to help your group be able to apply the Ethical Frames model to your situation.

Persuade, Don't Preach: Restoring Civility across the Political Divide

When people hear the principles behind Persuade, Don't Preach, they're electrified, and the questions come pouring in, one after the other. Every time. It never fails.

Through extensive experience and research, Karen has uncovered truths about human nature that are more than just interesting - they're useful. So, first, she blows your mind, and then she teaches you how to use the new information you've just heard.
Karen's basic talk - in real life or virtually - can be...

Difficult PeopleAudience ActivityEducational / Informative

Mending Fractured Relationships

Our country is divided and it is affecting our personal relationships. We need to learn new skills for how to talk each other and mend those frayed or fractured relationships. Karen's talk will take you through the basics of how to talk to each other in a way that doesn't tear us apart. 

Format: 20 minute virtual presentation
PsychologyEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

What is your stakeholder strategy?

You're operating in a complex world. With the move away from shareholder primacy to one where multiple stakeholders' concerns need to be balanced, life has gotten more difficult. Especially in a world where the politics are so divided. How do you navigate this quagmire, while balancing the competing needs of your employees, your suppliers, the communities you operate in, and your customers? An explosion with any one of them can bring down your company.

What do you need to know to...

Business - CultureEducational / Informative

Contentious Conversations

We all face difficult conversations, or we avoid them. In this speech, Karen will provide tips for how to approach a conversation about a contentious subject, one where there is high emotion and differing opinions. She will show you how to approach these difficult conversations in such a way that will be more productive and help rebuild the relationship.
Emotional IntelligenceEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Overcoming Barriers to Diversity

Diversity efforts run into predictable roadblocks.  If your company is to truly achieve diversity, you need to overcome those barriers. Karen will help you see the barriers and give you ideas to help your company overcome them.
InclusionEducational / Informative

How to create lasting change

In this speech, Karen distills the elements that can lead to lasting change in your organization or in society. She draws her examples from her study of business history, from her own career in corporate America and from the stories in the business press.  
ChangeEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing