Karen M. Mosca is the Principal and owner of Waypoint Directions working with individuals, entrepreneurs, and businesses focusing on their business and career growth for over 10 years. Her background includes over 25 years of corporate executive and sales management, business consulting and coaching experience. Karen’s objective is to expand her client’s horizons by bringing a positive, no nonsense results oriented approach to the experienced business executive, professional or business leader. She focuses on dramatically increasing their business and enhancing the quality of their professional careers.  Prior to Waypoint Directions, Karen successfully owned and managed ExeLCoaching a personal and business coaching company.  In addition to a successful business executive career at IBM, Karen was an executive coach at IBM Corporation. A  Harvard Management Update (Vol 9 No 12 – HBSWK Pub Date June 13, 2005) referred to the work efforts at IBM Corporation regarding “What an Executive Coach Can Do for You”. Karen was a leader in that corporate coach community effort.  She is sought out as a resource in working with small business owners and professionals. Karen has been a contributor to and guest speaker for the City of New Haven Office of Small Business Initiative and was part of the State of Connecticut Economic & Business Development Roundtable Plan sponsored by the Secretary of the State. She has been featured on NBC as a career expert, in the Wall Street Journal, and Connecticut newspapers. Karen received coaching education from CoachU and CTI (Coaches Training Institute). She is a Certified Retirement Coach by Retirement Options having completed comprehensive study dedicated to addressing the continuing issues of soon-to-be-retirees and understanding issues of professionals in the "post" work place. She is certified in Extended Disc assessments, and utilizes other assessments as required for career and business efforts. Additionally, the business growth plan process is based on advanced business education. Karen was employed as a global business unit sales executive at IBM and, as such, received advanced executive education at Harvard Business School, Babson, and has competencies in business development and sales leadership. She was on the Board of Regents of Women In Transformation, a non-profit organization serving women in transition requiring professional services and on the board of the Entrepreneurial Women's Network of Connecticut Over the years she has been active in the community in such areasas an elected RTM member,  appointee to the Community Relations Board, and active in community events. Karen enjoys music. As a former member of the Shoreline Community Chorale and Shoreline Repertory Chorale, Karen and a group of like minded individuals shared their joy of music via choral music therapy and interactive group participation for nursing homes, hospice and service organizations.