Meet Karl. His deep experience as an educator and expert in talent recruitment and development gives him a unique perspective and strength as a career coach. His proven methodologies help creative professionals reframe their goals with actionable steps to advance from a status-quo job search — to finding a true vocation.

Demonstrating his leadership and commitment to the industry, Karl has served as Director-at-Large, Membership Chair and Marketing Promotion Lead of Type Directors Club, New York; founding board member and Recruitment and Events Chair of AIGA Brand Central; and multiple-term board member of Connecticut Art Directors Club (CADC). In 2019, he received the CADC Lifetime Service Award.

Karl has been an invited senior portfolio reviewer and a frequent speaker at more than sixty top universities, design schools, and industry associations in the United States and abroad. He has held positions as an adjunct professor and instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Shintaro Akatsu School of Design at the University of Bridgeport, SUNY New Paltz, M.AD School of Ideas in New York, and visiting professor at Anhui Polytechnic University, Aurora College Shanghai, and the University of Connecticut. Karl has been a teaching resident at M.AD School of ideas in Miami, is an ongoing Visiting Professor at the Illustration and Visual Storytelling Summer Residency Program at SVA since 2014, and faculty — teaching professional practices in the BFA Comic/BFA Illustration department at the School of Visual Arts.