Karen Bouris

Current

• Owner at KB Consulting

Past

• Publisher at Inner Ocean Publishing
• Marketing Director at HarperCollins/HarperSanFrancisco

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

Connections

93 connections

Industry

Media Production

Karen Bouris’s Summary

For nineteen years, Karen Bouris has championed books, issues, and people, from musicians to PBS chefs, from spiritual gurus to thought leaders. She has launched book marketing campaigns for Johnny Cash, Billy Graham, Sidney Poitier and hundreds of others, including numerous New York Times bestsellers. She has worked with nonprofits, such as MoveOn.org, Blue Frontier, and CodePink, designing grassroots campaigns, using books as the organizing principal, for nonviolence, ocean advocacy, and progressive movement building. Her experience ranges from NY “big publishing,” with HarperCollins, to KQED, the only PBS affiliate publishing division, and several independent publishing ventures—and her roles have ranged from Publisher to Sales & Marketing Director, from Editor to Art Direction. Additionally, from 1999 to 2002, she founded and ran KBN Content Development and provided content and marketing strategy and communications for several best-in-their-space websites and technology companies, including PeopleSoft, Autodesk, and others. She has written books and articles related to women’s issues and been on countless television and radio programs, as well as featured in print. A graduate of UC Berkeley and Bay Area native, Karen currently lives in Maui with her two children.

Karen Bouris’s Specialties:

* Content/Book Development: Acquisition, Development, and Creative Direction
* Marketing Strategy and Implementation: from national to grassroots, from nonprofit to corporate
* Relationship Management, Negotiation, Business Strategy

Karen Bouris’s Experience

• Owner

  KB Consulting

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  Provide marketing strategy and content development for publishing companies, non-profits, established or rising star authors, issue-oriented progressive campaigns, and more.

• Publisher

  Inner Ocean Publishing

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Media Production industry)

  June 2003 — June 2007 (4 years 1 month)

• Marketing Director

  HarperCollins/HarperSanFrancisco

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Media Production industry)

  April 1997 — June 1999 (2 years 3 months)

Karen Bouris’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  1988 — 1990

Additional Information

Karen Bouris’s Groups:

•    Green
•    Learn From My Life

Karen Bouris’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch