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MEMBER PROFILE

 

Karen Tax

IAMX

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Triangle Individual
First name
Karen
Second name/initial
Joyce
Last name
Tax
Title
Value Creation Executive Coach
Company
IAMX
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CONTACT INFORMATION

City
Durham
State
North Carolina
 

PROFILE INFORMATION

Call me when
You're ready to scale, but stretching your team threatens what made you successful. We create aligned purpose and performance via empowering leadership, strategic focus, and distributed decisions.
Why I/we support XPX
We appreciate XPX's holistic focus on private business value, legacy, and community, expanding success beyond profit to also include multiple stakeholders and a collaborative approach between businesses.
Profession
  • Coach
  • Consultant
Functional Expertise
  • Business growth
  • Change Management
  • Communications
  • Culture
  • Diversity/Equity/Inclusion
  • Entrepreneurship
  • ESG
  • ESOPs
  • Facilitation
  • Integration
  • Leadership Development
  • Life Coaching
  • Management succession
  • Organizational development
  • Strategic planning
  • Sustainability
  • Turnarounds
Client Industry(ies)
  • Computer/Electronics
  • Energy/Utilities
  • Health/Pharma/Biotech
  • Manufacturing
  • Non-profit
  • Software/Internet
  • Telecommunications
Professional Certification(s)
BS Computer Science, MS Organization Development, ESCI (Korn Ferry)
In Business Since
2000
How to contact
Business Focus
When pushing harder isn't working any more. We guide executives to scale their organizations to 8 figures and beyond by first becoming more strategic, and then building systems that work effectively, so your people no longer have to work excessively.
Client Results
Leader confidence to raise $40M, increased team health scores from 3.5 to 4.5/5 average, transformed from reactionary leadership to clear strategic priorities, implemented work to value creation system to capture tangible AND intangible assets.
Resource details (for Advisor Resource Sponsors)
We help growth-stage business owners break the cycle of reactive firefighting, overload, and time scarcity by strengthening their leadership, culture, and strategic systems—the three elements that create sustainable value creation instead of wasting time, money, and energy on urgent-but-unimportant work.

Unlike traditional approaches that focus on either systems OR leadership development, IAMX integrates strategic leadership development with systems implementation specifically designed for the scaling phase.

Our Products Include:

-- Scaling Executive Mindfulness Kit - A foundational program that teaches leaders to distinguish between reactive firefighting and strategic value creation

-- Unleash Your Strategic Throughline Program - An intensive coaching experience that helps leaders reclaim 5+ hours weekly by focusing only on what creates value

-- Define Your True Self Leadership (DYTS) Development Program - Our core 8-week methodology for developing authentic, responsive leadership capacity

Our Services Include:

-- Executive Coaching - 6-month intensive programs for personal application of IAMX methodology with organizational impact

-- IAMX Compass Consulting - Our proprietary organization development approach that transforms businesses from functioning like a factory to functioning like a forest, creating environments where people naturally thrive while systematically embedding True Self Leadership (a result of DYTS) throughout the organization

-- Insights7 Work-to-Value System Implementation - A platform that connects every resource in an organization to measurable value outcomes, ensuring sustainable growth

Other Resources Include:

-- Our IAMX Authenticity Quiz - Assesses personal integrity and resilience as foundations for effective leadership

-- The IAMX Flip approach - Transforms reactive firefighting into creative collaboration through systematic practices

-- The IAMX Drama Triangle - Guides people to learn from their humanity instead of making it problematic, creating psychological safety for authentic leadership

Our approach ensures leadership, culture, and systems work together, so they strengthen each other and reinforce the highest levels of performance, preventing your business from falling back into overload while also achieving sustainable, meaningful, and profitable growth.
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