Vistage Executive Team
Real experience fosters real leadership.
Meet the Vistage Executive Team
Vistage Worldwide is an executive coaching organization that has assembled an experienced management team with a wide range of achievements in different industries and professions. Each executive has more than 20 years’ experience in executive and senior management positions with Fortune 1000 companies, start-ups, and divisions of multinational firms, government agencies and running their own consulting firms.
Tiare Tawil
President
Karen King
Owner
Tiare Tawil, President
Tiare Tawil is a leader shaped by many life experiences and mountains climbed. With determination and her calm and deliberate presence, she has built and led high performing teams, created exceptional workplace cultures, articulated visions and set effective paths to execution. Tiare spent 18 years serving in Human Resources and Executive leadership roles within the healthcare and telecommunications industries. Most recently, she played a key role leading the transformation of an organization to historically high levels of both operational and financial excellence, leading to the successful sale of the company in 2015. She subsequently led the delicate and complex two-year process of post-acquisition integration, while expanding oversight across 10 states and managing greater than 50 million in revenue. She now serves as President of Vistage New Mexico and as a Vistage Chair, coaching CEOs and Business Owners and facilitating executive peer advisory groups.
At the center of Tiare’s heart is a passion for helping both companies and individuals achieve their full potential. She sees life as an exciting mountain to be climbed, a mixture of preparation, attention to detail and risk. This she has personally honed, both in the workplace and while scaling 6,000 meter glacial peaks in Bolivia and technical climbs on the desert towers of Utah. She values courage, honesty, integrity, hard work, and always being true to one’s self. These values have played a significant role in her effectiveness as a coach to those she’s led and worked alongside.
As the daughter of hard working parents who never graduated high school, she became the first in her family to achieve post secondary education. She holds a B.S. in BusinessManagement and a “PHD equivalent” in life.
Tiare’s passion outside of work includes her three sons, Daniel, Derek and Asher and husband, Isaac. She loves to travel and is an avid climber, skier, trail runner, mountain biker, and all around outdoor enthusiast.
Karen King, Owner
Karen’s life has been dedicated to the growth of people around her – as leaders and as human beings. It’s her belief that when leaders develop their skills and capacities, their businesses grow, their employees flourish, their families are stronger, and all of this creates a stronger economy. She has held executive and consulting positions with UCLA and with Fortune 500 companies such as Mattel and Tosco. As a manager, she worked with staffs of up to 100. As an executive coach with King, Chapman & Broussard, she helped senior executives of international firms design and deliver $1MM returns on investment projects. Since 1991, she worked with New Mexico businesses on strategic planning, developing high performance teams, and coaching for breakthrough results. Karen has been a trainer and facilitator for Landmark Education, the world’s largest personal training and development organization.
Karen was a Vistage Chair for 20 years and has been the owner of Vistage New Mexico since 2005. Her background with industries and organizations, strategic planning, and coaching enable her to bring unique wisdom and insight to a broad range of business issues.
Karen received her Master’s degree from UCLA with a Regent’s Fellowship and her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She is an active volunteer with organizations committed to global transformation and the end of hunger. She and her husband (who is a psychiatrist) love to travel and have lived in New Mexico for 40 years.