Feature Speaker

Janell Karst is a Certified Executive Coach, Corporate Marketing Executive, Professional Facilitator, and author of The Badass Planner, with over 15 years leading national marketing strategy at a billion-dollar professional services firm, and three years as CEO of her own coaching and consulting practice.

Her story doesn’t start in a boardroom. Janell left home at 15, lived wildly, and then made a BOLD decision to course-correct, graduating with honors from business school, climbing to a senior executive marketing role, and building two businesses alongside a full life without putting any of it on hold. She has logged over 300 hours of executive coaching, earned a graduate certificate in Executive Coaching, launched retreats and workshops for high performers, and co-founded a personal development company with over 100 program graduates. She also created and self-published The Badass Planner, a 90-day undated planning system that takes your someday goals and priorities all the way through to daily execution. Because planning is a superpower, and she’ll prove it.

The people Janell works with are ambitious leaders, entrepreneurs, creators, and business owners with very full lives who are going after big goals in their businesses and in their lives. They are not here for mediocre. They are all in. They are in the arena. Through her 1:1 private coaching, her signature program BOLD, and her speaking, she helps them own their time and energy, cut the noise, leverage tools and AI, and make BOLD moves on the goals that matter most, starting with the ones they’ve been calling someday for way too long.

She is an AND person, someone who thrives on strategy, structure, and discipline AND equally trusts the woo: breathwork, journaling, gut instinct, and the full-body knowing that the real magic happens when logic meets something deeper.

She lives on Vancouver Island with the love of her life, their 10-year-old daughter (“Boujee”), and their sheepadoodle, Stella. Her optimal health mind, body, and soul is non-negotiable: you’ll find her in her morning mental dojo, hiking in the forest, chasing outdorphins along the ocean, or recharging with a strong coffee (real cream required) and a white-space weekend that she guards like it’s sacred.

Oh, and she’s a total badass with no inside voice. Hang around long enough and you’ll be making BOLD moves of your own.