Karilee Wirthlin

Karilee Wirthlin, principal and founder of KL Consulting in Silicon Valley, California, is a leading web site strategy consultant who combines her sales support experience with her technical background to produce innovative, targeted, and effective web content management programs. She has worked with companies such as PeopleSoft, Business Objects, Adobe, NVIDIA, and SGI applying best practices to large-scale, strategic web site efforts and has worked with web content management systems since their emergence in 1998.

CEOs, Vice Presidents of Marketing and IT, and Directors of web sites call Karilee when they are frustrated with their current efforts to implement their strategic visions for their web sites. Known as “KL” to her colleagues in the industry, Karilee is recognized for mobilizing and inspiring teams to think beyond current organizational structures to uncover the core business problems and then to apply collaborative processes and appropriate technology solutions to meet strategic business objectives. She specializes in the design and implementation of intranets - specifically sales intranets - and partner extranets, improving the return on investment from these important, internal communication vehicles.

In recognition of her accomplishments, Karilee is a co-author with business gurus Brian Tracy, Mark Victor Hansen, and Robert G. Allen et al. of the new, bestselling book Create the Business Breakthrough You Want: Secrets and Strategies from the World’s Greatest Mentors. This distinctive business book has been endorsed by giants such Ken Blanchard and Dr. Stephen Covey. Her inclusion in this book is based on being selected as one of “The World’s Greatest Business Mentors” – an honor bestowed to only 50 professionals internationally. Awarded by Mission Publishing of Palo Alto, California, the selection identifies Karilee as an innovative expert whose skills, experience, and record of success qualifies her as an unsurpassed resource and mentor for others. The award also signifies Karilee’s distinctive leadership in high-technology marketing.

In addition to her consulting practice, Karilee serves as Vice President of Women in Consulting (WIC), a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing top-tier consultants to businesses and raising the professional performance of members.