Karen Summerville

Karen Summerville spent twenty-five years as a career counselor—during which she kept hearing the same answer from her clients about why they had chosen their careers: My parents wanted me to. Out of that pattern, The Parent GPS™ was born. A former litigation partner who grew up on a Nebraska farm and was told at seventeen she couldn’t go to college, Summerville knows firsthand what it means to find your own path. A speaker, the creator of The Parent GPS™ trademarked framework, and the mother of a son whose own career is living proof that the framework works, she lives in Seattle, Washington.