Karen V. Bading is a consultant, coach, and trainer specializing in interpersonal effectiveness. She provides customized communication and change management training to clients who range from entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 corporations.

With Syntax Communication Modeling Corporation she has led programs at EDS, in which consultants apply classroom skills immediately within a simulation of a manufacturing operation, and then with their client organizations.

Karen was also a member of a team of Syntax consultants at PG&E in a program which combined training and coaching to integrate effective communication throughout the organization. A recent project at Hewitt Associates combined team building and communication skills for a consulting group. At Rockwell-Collins, Syntax skill building and telecoaching produced measurable savings for a procurement team.

Karen has been an ongoing training partner with the Los Angeles Educational Partnership, providing organizational development to schools undergoing restructuring. Karen's projects for MCI include customer service programs, communication skills for technical instruction, and change management.
She leads in-house courses and coaches managers for Agilent Technologies Lightwave Division.

Ms. Bading earned a Bachelor's Degree in English from University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Master's Degree in Counseling from Rhode Island College. She is a certified trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a model of effective communication with applications in business, psychotherapy, and education. She is also a certified Syntax Consultant. After teaching elementary school, she joined the staff of the NLP Center for Psychotherapy in New York City, where she served as Staff Psychotherapist, and as a Trainer with the NY Training Institute for NLP.