Decades Inside the Work
Karen Hurley is a fractional wellness strategist, author and speaker. She builds wellness strategy and team training for the people who carry everyone else's weight: first responders, emergency managers, law firms, school districts and the leaders responsible for them.
You lead an organization people count on when everything else falls apart, and you're tired of watching the people who make that possible walk out the door, one preventable departure at a time.
On the surface, the problem looks like turnover you can't get ahead of. Good people leave for an organization that seems to take better care of theirs, taking months of training and thousands of dollars with them every time it happens.
Underneath that, it feels like you're failing the people who depend on you, patching something serious with whatever's left in this year's budget, and telling yourself you should be able to fix this on your own.
But the truth underneath it is that the people who carry the risk for everyone else deserve wellness built for the specific weight they carry, not a program borrowed from an average office job with the label changed.
The industry keeps handing organizations a generic wellness plan built for average workplace stress and calling it protection. I don't buy that, and neither should you.
I know exactly how that feels, because I've spent decades inside these same worlds myself, from crisis support work with a fire department through the hardest stretch of the pandemic to twenty-five years around public safety and legal environments, watching good people leave because no one had built something that actually reached them.
You don't just get someone who's read about this. You get twenty-plus years building sustainable, funded wellness programs, subject matter expert status with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, time on Lexipol's national Wellness Team, preferred provider status with the Utah Fraternal Order of Police, and a published chapter in Six Figure Chicks: Scottsdale Vol. 2, all working to close the gap in front of you.
Here's how simple this is. First, you get an assessment, a direct, honest look at where your program stands and what's missing. Second, you get a plan specific enough to defend in a budget meeting, one you can act on with or without me. Third, if you want a partner to build and run it with you, you move into full wellness program consulting or team-based training built around your people.
Schedule your assessment, and let's build something you can defend with real numbers, not a hope and a binder.
Karen Hurley
Experience You Can Check
Karen's background sits on both sides of the work: inside public safety and legal environments, and inside the wellness industry that serves them.
IACP Subject Matter Expert
Subject matter expert with the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Former Lexipol Wellness Team
Served on Lexipol's national Wellness Team, so she knows where a standardized platform helps a department and where it stops.
Utah FOP Preferred Provider
Preferred provider with the Utah Fraternal Order of Police.
20+ Years in Public Safety & Legal
Two decades in and around public safety and legal environments, including crisis support with the Phoenix Fire Department during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published Author
Contributing author to Six Figure Chicks: Scottsdale Vol. 2.
Training & Service
Studied at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts and the InnerVisions Institute for Spiritual Development. Ordained minister, peer supporter and longtime mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Assess. Build. Implement. Track.
Every engagement follows the same documented sequence, and it treats wellness as physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, because the people Karen serves carry weight in all four.
Assess
A confidential assessment finds where the risk actually sits in your organization, by exposure, not job title.
Build
A customized playbook sized to your organization, budget and culture, not a generic template.
Implement
In-person implementation and team training, so the plan gets used instead of filed.
Track
Ongoing measurement and a fractional partnership, so the program can be defended at the next budget cycle.
Why Karen Does This Work
"I exist to help the people who carry the weight of others, first responders, high-pressure professional teams, and the leaders responsible for them, build wellness strategy specific to the risk they actually carry, so they can stay in the work they're called to do."
Karen's promise to every organization
- A wellness plan built around the risk your people actually carry
- Data you can defend to leadership, a board, a partnership or city council
- Mindful anonymity and confidentiality throughout
- A partner who stays accountable until it's implemented, not just handed off in a document
One Authority. Two Practices.
Karen meets with every organization first and recommends PIF Samaritan Services, Coaching with a Karen, or both.
Assessments, sustainable and funded program design, a customized playbook, and technology integration for organizations with high-risk personnel.
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Resilience and leadership training for teams, blending values-driven principles with performance philosophies from championship-level sports.
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Speaking
Karen speaks to conferences and leadership teams on wellness strategy, moral injury and resilience in high-stress professions.
Speaking topicsPress
Featured in Arizona Foothills Magazine's "Foundress Fridays" and a guest on The Inner Estate podcast.
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Who is Karen Hurley?
Karen Hurley is a fractional wellness strategist, author and speaker who builds wellness programs and team training for high-stress professions, including police and fire departments, emergency management, law firms and school districts. She leads two practices: PIF Samaritan Services (wellness program consulting) and Coaching with a Karen (team-based resilience and leadership training).
What is a fractional wellness strategist?
A fractional wellness strategist works with an organization part-time, sized to its needs and budget, instead of the organization hiring a full-time wellness director. Karen assesses the organization's risk, builds the plan, helps implement it and stays on to track whether it is working.
What credentials does Karen Hurley have?
Karen Hurley is a subject matter expert with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), a former member of Lexipol's national Wellness Team, and a preferred provider with the Utah Fraternal Order of Police. She has more than 20 years in public safety and legal environments and is a contributing author to Six Figure Chicks: Scottsdale Vol. 2.
Is Karen Hurley a therapist?
No. Karen's work is wellness strategy, consulting and team training, not clinical treatment. Clinical providers treat a crisis; Karen builds the program that helps prevent as many crises as possible, and the two roles work alongside each other.
Who does Karen Hurley work with?
Karen works with chiefs, sheriffs and command staff in public safety, emergency management leaders, managing partners at law firms, and HR leaders in school districts: leaders responsible for teams that carry repeated trauma, adversarial conflict or high-stakes decisions.
How do I start working with Karen?
Book a call. Karen meets with every organization first and recommends the right path: an assessment and program through PIF Samaritan Services, team training through Coaching with a Karen, or both.
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- An honest look at where your program stands
- A plan you can act on, with or without Karen
- A clear read on whether PIF, Coaching with a Karen, or both fits
- Support sized to your team's actual risk