Kara Vukanovich is a Director at ProjectNext Leadership, where she designs and leads cohort programs, senior team offsites, and longer-term leadership team engagements. She is known for building experiences with a real arc, starting from what the client is trying to solve and designing toward something that moves, not just something that feels good in the room.

Most leadership teams are having the same conversation on repeat. They are not stuck because they lack information. They are stuck because there is something true that has not been said out loud yet. Kara's work is about closing that gap, helping teams get honest about what is really going on and turning it into real decisions, clear ownership, and a way of working that sticks.

She has spent her career coaching and developing leaders and teams across startups through Fortune 500 organizations in entertainment, media, luxury goods, pharma, travel, and big tech. She held in-house roles at NBCUniversal, L'Oreal USA, and Meta, giving her a firsthand understanding of the challenges leaders bring into the room and what it actually takes to work through them. She gets it from the inside out.

As a credentialed systemic team coach, she works with the whole system in mind, helping leaders step back, see how they are operating, and make changes that last.