An independent Seattle consultancy working with the organizations integrating AI into regulated workflows — and with the bodies and leaders who have to power that integration without falling apart in the process. Same architecture across both lanes: stability + agility + alignment creates performance.
The thesis underneath the practice. Same architecture in both lanes: organizations that have to deliver under regulation, and bodies that have to last under load. Stability before scale. Foundation before flow.
We work in two domains because they share the same underlying problem. Regulated organizations rolling out AI wanting to ensure AI is safely and ethically integrated. Executive bodies running on cortisol and caffeine tend to do the same. Both fail at the foundation. Both are fixable.
Training, governance, and integration for organizations putting AI into healthcare, public sector, energy, and financial services environments — where the consequences of bad systems are audits, lawsuits, and the people the systems are supposed to serve.
Long-form diabetes risk reduction metabolic work for executives, leaders, and women whose energy, focus, and resilience are starting to limit the rest of their life. Forty years of dedicated practice in the field, condensed into talks, training, and private 1:1 work. Long-form home: bloodsugardogs.com.
"Most failures — biological or organizational — are foundation failures. Healthy systems share the same architecture: stable at the core, dynamic at the edges."
The Ideas & Insights Thesis
Talks and classes are listed on Eventbrite for open enrollment. Private cohorts and 1:1 work begin with a strategy call to scope the engagement.
A one-day online intensive on operationalizing AI ethics in regulated environments. Bias audit walkthroughs, decision-log frameworks, EU AI Act and Australian AI Safety Standard crosswalks, and a 30/60/90 implementation plan you build for your own context. You leave with one specific Monday-morning move.
More Info → Register on Eventbrite →A multi-session cohort on practical AI integration for project-management, business-analysis, and product-owner workflows. Workflow mapping, prompt design, governance basics, and human-in-the-loop patterns built for regulated work. Available as open enrollment or as a private cohort delivered to your team.
Register on Eventbrite →The signature method for building the cellular foundation underneath leadership capacity — with diabetes or without. Blood-sugar stability, energy regulation, inflammation, and the conditions that determine how well your body holds up under decision load. For executives and senior operators whose physical foundation is starting to limit their professional one.
Register on Eventbrite →The talk that opens the body lane. Forty years of dedicated practice in metabolic risk reduction, told through the story of a rescue dog who self-trained to detect blood sugar shifts before the monitor did. Cellular biology made human. Plain-language. Zero hype. The companion book is in production.
Register on Eventbrite →Trademarked tools the practice is built on. The frameworks are why one workshop here doesn't evaporate in 30 days the way most workshops do — and why the same architecture works in both lanes without our having to invent a new model for each.
How healthy systems are built: stable foundation first, integration second, agility as the result — not the starting point. The teaching frame underneath every program in both lanes.
Where alignment breaks down across people, process, and platform — and what to fix first. Used for organizational workflow assessments and turned inward for personal alignment work.
An assessment. The entry point to scoping any consulting engagement — calibrates where ethics, AI risks, and where the priority will be to focus.
The leadership book applies Stability → Agility → Rise to organizations building with AI in 2026. The Holistic Vitality Series applies the same architecture inside the body, across forty years of metabolic work. Four books. Same root system. Different terrain.
The Ideas & Insights leadership book. A systems and social-psychology lens on building durable organizations and integrating AI ethically into regulated work — for the strategists and senior operators wrestling with what comes next in 2026. Foreword by Raymond Aaron.
Read more →The personal-story entry point. Written for the woman whose body has been trying to get her attention. Foreword by Raymond Aaron.
Read more →The science layer. Also the basis of Karin's signature keynote, delivered regularly to medical, public health, and corporate wellness audiences.
Dedicated site (holisticvitalitybook.com) in development.
About the talk →The contemplative and embodied layer. Bridges cellular science with yogic and Ayurvedic tradition. Final polish in progress.
Dedicated site (holistichealthandvitality.us) in development.
Series updates →Ideas and Insights Consulting LLC is a Seattle-based independent consultancy founded in 2022. The practice underneath it took 28 years — and one body — to build.
The work began in regulated public-sector environments — healthcare, public health, county government, energy — where the consequences of bad systems are not theoretical. They are audits, investigations, lawsuits, and the people whose lives the systems are supposed to serve. Long enough in those rooms to learn one pattern, repeating: technology does not fail. Systems do.
The same pattern shows up at human scale. Executive bodies running unstable foundations amplify their existing dysfunction. Bodies that lose their metabolic foundation watch the cognitive and emotional capacity for leadership go with it. Same architecture. Two lanes — AI in organizations, and metabolic stability in the bodies running them.
We are an independent firm, not a 50-person consultancy. That's deliberate. The depth and continuity that this work requires don't scale through layers of associates. Engagements are senior-led from the first call to the final deliverable.
If you know which lane you're in, the talks and classes are open on Eventbrite. If you don't, the strategy call is the right first move — we'll figure out together which lane and which engagement actually fits the situation.