Operations & Transformation Advisor

I help organizations turn ambiguity into working structure.

25+ years leading operations, enterprise implementations, and organizational change across media, publishing, and enterprise systems. I'm usually brought in when a role, process, or system is new or evolving — to understand how the business actually works, find where things break down between teams, and build something practical that holds up.

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About

I'm an operations and transformation leader with a background spanning broadcast media, digital media, publishing, enterprise systems, and revenue operations. Most recently, I was the first Head of Implementation at TapClicks, where I helped shape implementation strategy for a next-generation order management platform and designed AI-powered tools to turn customer discovery into requirements, estimates, and migration plans.

Before that, I spent six years at The Minnesota Star Tribune building and evolving the digital advertising operations function through several rounds of change — leading multidisciplinary teams, implementing a new order management system, and reorganizing a generalist team into specialized functions with clearer ownership.

I work well in the space between teams: translating between executives, Product, Engineering, Finance, Sales, and Operations, and finding the practical fix when responsibilities or systems don't quite line up.

Based in
Minneapolis, MN (open to remote engagements)
Focus areas
Operations, enterprise implementation, organizational design, AI-enabled workflows
Engagement types
Advisory, fractional, and project-based consulting
Contact
karen.godin@live.com

Where I can help

Most engagements fall into one of these areas — often a mix of two or three at once.

Implementation

Enterprise Implementation

Shaping implementation strategy for new systems or platforms — structured discovery, requirements, timelines, and migration planning that account for real workflow complexity.

Structure

Organizational Design

Reorganizing teams and responsibilities so ownership, workflows, and career paths keep up as the business changes — not just an org-chart redraw.

Process

Process & Workflow Improvement

Finding where work breaks down between people, systems, and teams, and building practical, repeatable structure to fix it.

AI & Tooling

AI-Enabled Operations

Designing AI-powered tools and workflows for discovery, documentation, and implementation planning — grounded in how the work actually gets done.

Selected highlights

$40M+

Led multidisciplinary teams and functions supporting more than $40M in annual digital revenue through periods of significant business and organizational change.

100%+

Increased revenue from unsold digital inventory by more than 100% through pricing, partner, and inventory optimization at Cordillera Digital.

AI

Designed AI-powered tools at TapClicks that turned customer discovery into implementation estimates, requirements documentation, and migration plans.

25+ yrs

Progressive experience across broadcast operations, digital media, publishing, and enterprise systems — most of it spent building structure into ambiguous, newly created roles.

Recent experience

2025–2026

TapClicks

Head of Implementation (first in role) — implementation strategy for a next-generation enterprise order management platform

2019–2025

The Minnesota Star Tribune

Director, Digital Advertising Strategy — built and evolved the digital advertising operations function through multiple restructures

2012–2019

Cordillera Digital

Director, Revenue Operations — led digital monetization and operations for a multi-market television organization

Let's talk about your team

If you're navigating a system implementation, a reorg, or a process that's outgrown how your team currently works, I'd like to hear about it.