Systems analysis and transformation consulting — for organizations and the people running them.
28 years aligning people, process, and technology in healthcare, public sector, and energy. Now independent — bringing the same rigor to organizations navigating AI, workflow complexity, and the human systems underneath performance.
Stable systems outperform stressed systems — in organizations and in the bodies running them.
The same pattern shows up at every scale: misaligned people, unclear processes, ungoverned technology, and bodies running on cortisol instead of capacity. The work is the same. Fix the foundation. Everything else follows.
Two lanes. One thesis.
Ideas and Insights works in two domains because they share the same underlying problem. Organizations adopting AI without stable processes and clear governance run into the same wall as leaders trying to perform on an unstable metabolic foundation. The fix in both cases starts the same way: foundation before scaling.
Business systems analysis, workflow design, and responsible AI governance for regulated environments
Strategy, analysis, and governance for organizations putting technology — including AI — into complex, regulated environments. Not technology for its own sake. Systems that people can understand, trust, and actually use. Healthcare, public sector, energy, and financial services are the natural home ground.
- Ethical AI & Technology Governance BasicsHalf-day class · open enrollment via Eventbrite
- AI for Project Leaders, BAs & Scrum MastersMulti-session cohort · open and private formats
- Business Clarity Session90-minute private working session · $297
Metabolic health coaching and energy restoration for leaders whose bodies are limiting their work
Energy drives attention. Attention drives decisions. Decisions drive outcomes. For leaders and professionals whose energy, clarity, and resilience have started to limit the rest of their work — this is the lane. Forty years of dedicated practice in metabolic health, yoga science, and diabetes risk reduction, applied to the people who need their bodies to cooperate with their ambitions.
- Blood Sugar Mastery — the talkOne-hour signature talk · open enrollment via Eventbrite
- Health Strategy Session60-minute private session · $97
- Holistic Vitality Jumpstart90-day personalized program · 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
Open offerings and private engagements.
Talks and classes are listed on Eventbrite for open enrollment. Private sessions and consulting engagements begin with a clarity call to scope the work.
Ethical AI & Technology Governance Basics
A half-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 built for your own context. You leave with one specific Monday-morning move.
Full details & curriculum → Register on Eventbrite →AI for Project Leaders, BAs & Scrum Masters
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 a private cohort delivered to your team.
Register on Eventbrite →Business Clarity Session
A working session for entrepreneurs and small business owners who want a clearer strategy, a stronger web presence, and smarter use of AI tools — without wasting months figuring it out alone. We look at where you are, find the gaps, and map your next moves in plain language. Not a sales call. Focused work.
Book this session →Blood Sugar Mastery — the talk
The signature talk on building the metabolic foundation underneath leadership capacity — with or without diabetes. Blood-sugar stability, energy regulation, inflammation, and the conditions that determine how well your body holds up under decision load. Forty years of dedicated practice, told plainly. Zero hype.
Register on Eventbrite →Health Strategy Session
Your energy, blood sugar, mood, and mental clarity are one connected system. When that system is unstable, everything downstream suffers. This session maps what's driving the instability and what to address first — sized to your real life, not an idealized version of it.
Book this session →Three frameworks. One body of work.
The trademarked tools the practice is built on. These are why one engagement here doesn't evaporate in 30 days — and why the same architecture works in both lanes without inventing a new model for each situation.
Stability. Agility. Rise.™
The sequence underneath every program: stability as foundation, agility as earned capacity, rise as the result. Applies equally to organizations adopting AI and to bodies trying to perform under load. Foundation before scaling — always.
Human Systems Alignment Model™
A diagnostic approach for identifying 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 and performance work.
Human Systems Stability Diagnostic™
An assessment that identifies constraints, opportunities, and the highest-leverage actions to take first. The entry point for scoping any consulting or coaching engagement.
Forty years of study and practice. One signature framework.
The Holistic Vitality Series is the long-form summation of the metabolic health and human systems work — combining cutting-edge research with ancient practice, in the architecture of Stability. Agility. Rise. Three books. One through-line.
Blood Sugar Dogs
The personal-story entry point. Written for the woman whose body has been trying to get her attention. Foreword by Raymond Aaron.
Read more →Stability. Agility. Rise.
For leaders wrestling with what comes next and how to build better organizations — with AI and technology integrated responsibly into the work.
Read more →Holistic Vitality
The science layer. Also the basis of Karin's signature keynote, delivered to medical, public health, and corporate wellness audiences.
About the talk →The Body Remembers Health
The contemplative and embodied layer. Bridges cellular science with yogic and Ayurvedic tradition. Final polish in progress.
Series site →Built from inside the systems we teach.
Ideas and Insights Consulting LLC is a Seattle-based independent practice founded in 2022. The work underneath it took 28 years — and one body — to build.
The practice grew out of regulated public-sector environments — healthcare, public health, county government, energy — where the consequences of bad systems are not theoretical. They are audits, investigations, 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. Leaders running on unstable metabolic foundations amplify their existing dysfunction. When the body loses its foundation, cognitive and emotional capacity for leadership goes with it. Same architecture. Two lanes — organizational systems and the human systems running them.
This is an independent practice, not a 50-person consultancy. That is deliberate. The depth and continuity this work requires do not scale through layers of associates. Engagements are senior-led from the first call to the final deliverable.
Where would you like to start?
If you know which lane you're in, the talks and classes are open on Eventbrite. If you're not sure, a free 30-minute conversation is the right first move — we'll figure out together what actually fits.
