Leadership for Stability, Agility, Vitality and Flow
Ideas & Insights Consulting is a women-owned strategy practice dedicated to improving how people cultivate long-term health, purpose driven work, and live authentically in a world shaped by chronic stress, the rising impact of chronic disease, and that is in need of stability, solutions, agility, and capacity.
We help leaders, teams, and individuals cultivate health -- healthier systems personally and professionally—so performance, wellbeing, and long-term vitality can coexist.
Our work sits at the intersection of public health, organizational change, leadership development, and holistic health education.
To help clients, whether individuals, organizations, or communities, with insights and to make changes that help with stability, alignment, clarity, vitality, agility, and flow.
Our program and tools support leaders, teams, businesses and organizations to design and deliver healthy efficient systems that enable people to function at a high level with renewed understanding, stability, agility, and flow.
Healthy systems form the basis of health, stability and flow. From our bodies via cellular and hormonal health, to society via the context of stable systems of government and communication , and in business, healthy workflow, communication and team processes enable improvement and progress.
As James Clear famously wrote:
You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
- James Clear
My team and systems consulting work is distinct from coaching and wellness because it addresses the systems, capacity, and crisis moment itself, providing structure, clarity, and decision support when stakes are high and timing matters. This work combines strategic consulting, operational thinking, and coaching to approach crisis as a leadership challenge rather than a personal shortcoming. Through a four-phase framework (stabilize, build, navigate, integrate) chaos is slowed, priorities are clarified, and practical systems are established to support functioning under pressure. The methodology is grounded in real-world leadership and systems thinking, but cellular and metabolic health and wellness-based approaches inform the work for creating capable leaders.
Whether consulting with a large system or coaching someone mastering a metabolism, diabetes and cellular health, I use the same same theory: Stability creates flow, Systems create clarity, flow, and agility. We aim for
✔ Clarity over chaos
✔ Health as the fundamental foundation of performance
✔Evidence-based, proven, human-centered solutions
✔Systems that support
✔Integrity, accessibility, and compassion
✔Evidence-based, proven, human-centered solution
We help clients with systems to think clearly, act wisely, and build lives that work and systems that truly help.
For Organizations & Business Teams
I work at the intersection of business and teams and Lean-Agile IT & Team building to understand where systems and flow are breaking down.
If you are struggling with diabetes or prediabetes and feeling sluggish, I work at the intersection of metabolism, energy, and aging to help bodies become resilient again.
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As someone who had a longtime career in Public Health and Lean Agile IT business analysis, Karin Collinsworth's work as speaker, teacher, leader, systems architect and health coach bridges lived experience, systems thinking, and evidence-informed practices. Karin has spent decades navigating chronic illness, organizational complexity, and burnout—and helping others do the same with clarity and confidence.
She brings a unique blend of Lean Agile IT systems and business analysis, change management and coaching certifications from top companies, and leadership strategy, and humane change management to every engagement to bring the foundation needed for flow, agility, freedom and health.
Certifications and honors include: Toastmaster Speaker and Leader Gold, IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional, PMI Project Manager, Rasa Yoga R-EYT 1000, Lifelong student of personality and astrology theory, a Certified Scaled Agile Consultant, Scrum Master, Product Owner, and currently pursuing her Lean 6 Sigma Black Belt.
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Ideas & Insights Consulting is building capacity toward expanded research, education, and advocacy focused on: :
Chronic disease prevention
Health literacy and patient education
Workplace wellbeing and sustainable leadership
Community-based approaches to vitality and longevity
3521 Ashworth Ave N
Seattle, WA, USA 98103
Ideas and Insights Consulting, Inc:
Blood Sugar Dogs, Karin C (Diabetes) Health Coaching
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