Karen Hold

Founder and CEO

Experience Labs

Karen Hold is the founder and CEO of innovation strategy consulting firm, Experience Labs. A Procter & Gamble-trained brand marketer, Karen saw firsthand how P&G drove revenue and profit growth with innovation. With over 25 years of experience, Karen has consulted for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, including AARP, AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, Audi, Chick-fil-A, Cisco, Deloitte, John Hancock, Mercedes, Nokia, NEC, and Porsche. She is passionate about building creative capacity in individuals, organizations and cities.

Prior to forming Experience Labs, Karen was a co-founder of Broadband Publishing, where she built sales through innovative marketing partnerships with Forbes and BusinessWeek magazines. Karen is a co-author of Experiencing Design – The Innovator’s Journey published by Columbia Business School Publishing.

Karen is a graduate of Duke University and Georgetown’s McDonough Graduate School of Business. She is the Director of DT:DC, a 5,300 member MeetUp group in Washington, DC. She is a Visiting Executive Lecturer at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, a Visiting Professor at Ecole des Ponts in Paris, France and Casablanca, Morocco and an Adjunct Faculty Member at Boston College Lynch School of Education in Boston, Massachusetts.