We Are Karrikins
Transformative, growing, visionary, aligned. These are the words that describe Karrikins.
You are also a Karrikin, and together we’ll create the space for exponential growth in your organization.
Karrikin (n): a group of compounds found in the smoke of burning plants that stimulates seed germination and catalyzes growth.
About Karrikins Group
Karrikins Group is a Denver-based, global-serving consultancy that combines business acumen, executive experience, and social science with the disciplines of consulting, facilitation, and coaching to create alignment and accelerate growth for leaders and their teams.
We deliver solutions for senior leaders, boards, and teams who believe they can deliver better results if only their teams were better aligned. Our Alignment Journey™ solution is perfect for larger organizations with complex, global, or cross-functional alignment gaps who need to accelerate business results and drive transformative growth. Our Alignment Institute® was born from our desire to make the power of alignment more available to leaders and teams of all sizes and configurations, from individuals who want to lean into their own development to small to mid-sized teams and organizations who want the powerful results that come from getting aligned.
Our newest offering, Dynamic Strategy™, is designed to bring out the strengths needed for you to confidently and successfully lead your team as you set and execute your company’s strategy for the future.
Meet Our Managing Partners
We’re an experienced leadership duo who bring the combined knowledge of cross-industry business acumen and behavioral science to our clients as they navigate leadership alignment and organizational transformation. We are passionate about working with our clients and their companies to discover the HOW of leadership, ultimately inspiring positive change and helping business leaders accelerate their growth and transform their companies.
Bruce Siegel
Managing Partner
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“I’m passionate about working with executives to create optimal environments where their people and businesses can thrive.”
– Bruce Siegel
Julie Williamson, PhD
CEO / Managing Partner
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“I’m passionate about Making HOW Matter for leaders and teams so that they can do amazing, transformational things together.”
– Julie Williamson, PhD
Meet Our Consultants
We’re behavioral scientists, change-makers, strategists, and experience creators, but above all, we’re people looking to make a lasting and positive impact. We have carefully curated a team of exceptionally talented, educated, and knowledgeable individuals who all bring something unique to how we serve leaders and teams. With decades of diverse experience in working with all sorts of organizations (from small to Fortune 500), our consultants guide our collective impact and enable transformative growth for our clients.
Brent Bowman
Principal / HOW Activator
Daniel Raffield
Consultant / HOW Activator
Nicole Winkler, PhD
Senior Consultant / HOW Activator
Kate Zappitelli
Alignment Institute® Chair/HOW Activator
Jay Patello
Head of Business Development
The Karrikins Group Story
Karrikins Group was born from a passion for creating positive change in the world one nudge at a time.
Since its beginnings as ChangeLabs in 2001, through its migration to Karrikins Group in 2017, and ever since, we’ve been geeking out over the power of aligned action.
Our enduring mission is to make HOW matter for as many leaders and organizations as possible.
We are so grateful for the global companies that have taken this journey with us, including De Beers, Brookfield Residential, Xylem, and Cisco Systems.
In 2020, our founder, Peter Sheahan, turned over leadership of the company to us. Together we are committed to taking the journey forward and bringing the power of alignment to a new generation of leaders.
Want Julie Williamson, PhD to Keynote Your Next Conference?
Karrikins Group offers keynote speaking and breakout session facilitation covering topics around leadership, organizational innovation and transformation, and more. Inspire your event participants to expand their thinking on how to have impact and create growth through organizational alignment.
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Meet Peter Sheahan
Founder, Author & Keynote Speaker
Peter Sheahan founded ChangeLabs, now Karrikins Group in 2001 with the aim of accelerating transformation within communities and businesses around the world. ChangeLabs built out high impact community investment programs that changed the trajectory of student outcomes in financial literacy, digital / online safety, and healthy eating, among other things.
In 2012 Peter brought the power of transformation to the US and began applying the successful practices around behavior-based change to leaders and teams. In 2020, Peter exited the business and Bruce Siegel and Julie Williamson took over as co-owners and Managing Partners. Since then, Karrikins Group has continued to build on our deep roots in behavior-change to enable transformative growth for our clients through the power of aligned leadership.