Don't Just Prepare for the Work. Prepare the People.
Coaching with a Karen is Karen Hurley's team-based resilience and leadership training for high-stress professionals. Whole teams train together, using values-driven principles and performance philosophies borrowed from championship-level sports.
Team Training for High-Stress Professionals
Coaching with a Karen trains whole teams to stay clear, connected and steady under pressure. It is team-based only, not one-on-one coaching.
High-stress organizations invest heavily in equipment, technology, policies and operational readiness. But none of those things perform without people who can think clearly, communicate effectively and stay connected under pressure. That's where Coaching with a Karen comes in.
Karen Hurley brings a combination of leadership development, coaching, high-stakes operational experience and practical resilience strategies to teams working in demanding environments. The training blends values-driven principles, intention, hope and gratitude, and science-based spiritual practices with performance philosophies borrowed from championship-level sports. That lens gives teams a language for stress and recovery that reads as strength, not therapy-speak.
Who Coaching with a Karen Trains
- Police and fire chiefs, command staff and frontline leadership in high-pressure public safety roles
- Executives, directors and founders leading in high-stakes environments
- Teams and project groups that want stronger cohesion, trust and values-driven collaboration
- Other high-stress professional teams, including emergency management, law firms and school districts
Risk Mitigation Starts Before the Crisis
Every Coaching with a Karen training is built around four learning outcomes.
Break the Negativity Cycle
Learn why the brain naturally clings to negativity, and how to break the cycle.
Focus, Recovery, Alignment
Apply science-based spiritual practices for focus, recovery and alignment.
Daily Habits That Hold
Build daily habits to protect against disengagement, improve emotional control and adapt in high-stress environments.
Cohesion Through Change
Strengthen team cohesion and navigate change with confidence.
Executive Leadership Training
Purpose-driven leadership for executives, directors and founders who want to lead with authenticity, vision and clarity in high-stakes environments. Leadership cohorts work through the same framework together.
First Responder Resilience Training
Resilient responders: training for police and fire chiefs, command staff and frontline leadership in high-pressure public safety roles.
Team Training for High-Stress Teams
Value-aligned teams: for teams and project groups in other demanding professions that want to improve cohesion, trust and values-driven collaboration.
Culture Is Your Competitive Edge
Culture isn't what you say. It's what your people experience. Karen Hurley helps leadership teams turn culture from something you talk about into something you practice.
Shared Practice Sticks
Individual coaching changes one person. Team-based training changes how a whole group operates under pressure, together, with the same shared language. Practices reinforced by the people someone works alongside every day stick better than practices covered once a week in a private session. That is why Coaching with a Karen is built around teams, not individual clients.
Trust Built Together
Teams leave with shared practices for staying steady under pressure, a common language for talking about stress and recovery, and stronger trust built through training together. That trust is the part a rotating series of individual sessions never builds, and it is what survives turnover at the top.
Language That Lands
Skeptical of anything that sounds like soft-skills training? Coaching with a Karen drops the clinical language. Intention, hope and gratitude sit alongside performance philosophies from championship-level sports, which tends to land with teams that would tune out anything that sounds therapeutic.
Whole-Person, Not Clinical
Karen Hurley works from a whole-person framework: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, treated as connected. Coaching is not therapy, and Karen is not a clinician. The training gives teams practical tools; it does not diagnose or treat anyone.
Program Design and Team Training, One Point of Entry
PIF Samaritan Services builds an organization's wellness program. Coaching with a Karen trains the team directly in the practices behind it.
Karen Hurley leads both practices. She meets with every organization first and determines whether PIF's program design, Coaching with a Karen's team training, or a combination of both fits what you actually need. Some organizations start with team training. Others start with a PIF Samaritan Services assessment and add training once the program is in place.
Draft Pricing for Coaching with a Karen is shared after an introductory conversation, once Karen understands your team's size and needs.
How a Team Engagement Starts
- A conversation with Karen about your team, its pressures and what you've tried
- Karen recommends team training, a PIF assessment, or both
- Training is built around your team's actual work, not a borrowed template
- Fewer, deeper sessions, designed to lighten what your people carry rather than add to the calendar
Karen Hurley
Karen Hurley leads every Coaching with a Karen training. She brings 20+ years in public safety and legal environments, crisis support work with a fire department during the pandemic, time on Lexipol's national Wellness Team, IACP subject matter expert status and Utah FOP preferred provider status. She is also an ordained minister and a published author.
What People Say About Working With Karen
I am writing to wholeheartedly recommend Karen for her exceptional dedication to officer health and wellness during our time working together. It has been a pleasure collaborating with her, and her passion for the work she does is truly commendable.
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Karen consistently demonstrated an unwavering commitment to promoting and enhancing the well-being of public safety personnel. Her efforts extended beyond the call of duty, and she took the initiative to implement innovative programs and initiatives aimed at improving their physical and mental health. What truly sets Karen apart is her authentic love for the work she does. It is evident in the enthusiasm she brings to every endeavor and her willingness to go above and beyond to make a meaningful impact. Her passion resonates not only with her colleagues but also with those she serves, creating a sense of trust and camaraderie within the departments she works with. I have no doubt that Karen would be an invaluable asset to any organization committed to enhancing the well-being of its personnel. Her dedication, passion, and ability to drive positive change make her an outstanding resource for improving officer health and wellness.
Karen had a natural ability to allow me to do my own percolating, while asking a sequence of questions to keep me aimed on a productive focal point.
I’m happy to have her positive, spiritual perspective and how she helps me discover my own solutions and helps me create my own practical tools.
She helped me truly see into myself from a place of acceptance and compassion. Karen’s coaching was gentle when I needed it. Yet she provided a firm nudge when I needed that too.
Karen is empathetic and intuitive toward everything and everyone, I always leave sessions with Karen feeling light and encouraged!
Karen’s presence makes everything easy, flowing, and more loving. She will always be there to cheer you on "Just Do It" attitude, celebrate you, and support you in creating the life you truly desire!
Questions About Coaching with a Karen
What is Coaching with a Karen?
Coaching with a Karen is Karen Hurley's team-based resilience and leadership training for high-stress professionals. It blends values-driven principles, intention, hope and gratitude, with performance philosophies borrowed from championship-level sports. Training tracks include Executive Leadership Training, First Responder Resilience Training and team training for other high-stress teams.
Is Coaching with a Karen one-on-one coaching?
No. Coaching with a Karen is team-based training. Karen Hurley built the practice around teams rather than individual clients, because practices reinforced by the people you work alongside every day stick better than practices covered once a week in a private session.
What is team-based resilience training, and how is it different from individual coaching?
Team-based resilience training changes how a whole group operates under pressure, together, with the same shared language. Individual coaching changes one person. A team that trains together builds shared practices and trust that individual sessions can't replicate.
What does a team leave a Coaching with a Karen training with?
Teams leave with shared practices for staying steady under pressure, a common language for talking about stress and recovery, and stronger trust built through training together. The training covers why the brain clings to negativity, science-based spiritual practices for focus and recovery, daily habits that protect against disengagement, and team cohesion through change.
How do you get buy-in from a team that's skeptical of soft-skills training?
Drop the clinical language. Coaching with a Karen pairs intention, hope and gratitude with performance philosophies from championship-level sports, which tends to land with teams that would tune out anything that sounds therapeutic.
How do I know if my team needs training, or if the problem is something else?
Start with a conversation with Karen Hurley. Every organization starts there, and Karen determines whether Coaching with a Karen team training, a PIF Samaritan Services wellness program assessment, or both is the right next step.
What's the difference between Coaching with a Karen and PIF Samaritan Services?
PIF Samaritan Services builds an organization's wellness program: assessment, program design, a customized playbook and technology integration. Coaching with a Karen trains the team directly. Karen Hurley leads both and can combine them.
How much does Coaching with a Karen cost?
Draft Pricing is shared after an introductory conversation, once Karen understands your team's size, format and goals.
Start the Conversation
- 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