Kari Bergman is a coach, facilitator, and word witch who gets most excited when dreaming new worlds. As a deeply feeling person, she is no stranger to grief. But her recent life’s work is to lean just as strongly - if not more so towards joy, play, goofiness and deep belly laughter.

Empathic, curious, and deeply intuitive, Kari listens beyond words. In 1:1 sessions and in groups, she takes people deep to seed forward movement, holding space for the human element to come through especially in the workplace. Kari has two coaching certifications from the Co-Active Training Institute and International Coach Federation and completed her B.S. in Public and Nonprofit Administration at Grand Valley State University in 2010.

Drawing on tools from Liberating Structures, Conscious Leadership Group and the Co-Active Model, she facilitates experiences for groups and teams to become more cohesive, trusting, open, and brave together. Kari is wise, hilarious, and occasionally sassy in the facilitator seat. She came up in her facilitation work with AG Collaborative, working with groups across a variety of public, private, and nonprofit sectors from 2019-2025. 

Kari is a parent and partner, learning to be soft and messy and getting better at repair. When she's not facilitating or coaching, you'll find her playing with prose on a very old typewriter, tap dancing on the hard wood floors in her dining room, or paddling to keep up with her 7-year-old on his many fishing adventures.