Karen Holt is a Social CRM Consultant at Harvest Solutions. Karen specializes in helping clients understand the benefits of Social Relationship Management with Nimble CRM. In this role, Karen will be building and nurturing client relationships, uncovering new consulting engagement opportunities to help clients achieve the highest adoption of the Nimble application. Karen also covers the New England area as a CRM Account Executive working closely with Harvest Solutions’ Practice Leaders during the needs discovery process, and keeps the communications pulse with clients.
Prior to joining Harvest Solutions in 2011, Karen was a Senior Consultant with a technology consulting firm for LexisNexis InterAction CRM. She was responsible for guiding financial services and professional consulting clients through requirements gathering, design, configuration, data migration and deployment of their CRM solution, and uncovering new opportunities for product expansion. Karen is an InterAction Certified Administrator.
Karen brings over 25 years of experience providing pre and post sales software application support and training, project and product management for client/server and web-based hosted solutions in desktop publishing, document management, and real-time news distribution. Her passion for building trusted relationships and achieving customer satisfaction has been recognized by co-workers who see her as an “exceptional people person” driving projects from initiation to completion.
Karen earned her business degree at Bryant College, Rhode Island, continues her professional development in Social Media communications, inbound marketing and CRM solutions. You will see her on power walks with her two Labrador retrievers in the historic seaport town of Newburyport, MA, where she and her husband live and enjoy the rich history on the shores of the Merrimack River and Atlantic. Karen is involved with non-profit local historical societies and preservation groups and is actively involved with the restoration of an 1822 Powder House historic landmark in Newburyport.