
An insightful and dynamic speaker and teacher, Reverend Karen Russo combines universal spiritual principles and sound financial strategies to guide you toward conscious wealth creation. As the author of
The Money Keys and a frequent keynote speaker, Karen helps you reach spiritual money mastery: an inspired, empowered, and productive state of being (and doing!) that creates peace and prosperity in your life.
Karen brings a unique blend of financial knowledge
and spiritual direction to her wealth program. She holds an MBA from Columbia University and has extensive experience as a corporate trainer, top-selling salesperson, and financial services professional. As an ordained minister with the United Centers for Spiritual Living, Karen studied Religious Science, a teaching that synthesizes religious ideas, philosophical truths, and scientific principles about how life works. In
The Money Keys, she shares distinctive insights from more than 20 years of success in secular and spiritual pursuits.
Karen is a professional member of the
National Speaker Association and frequently speaks with entrepreneurs and business professionals in keynote presentations and breakout sessions such as:
- Escaping the Entrepreneurial Money Traps
- Staying Recession-Proof for Life
- Love and Money: Creating a Prosperous Partnership
- Does God What You to be Rich? What the World Religions Really Say About Money and Faith
- Valuing the Masculine and Feminine Qualities of Wealth
- And many other customized presentations
Karen has been featured on television’s
Fox TV News, Good Morning Arizona,
Sonoran Living, and WABC-TV in New York City. She has also appeared in the
Arizona Republic, is a contributor to
Science of Mind and
Phoenix Woman magazines, and is a favorite guest on radio’s
Inside Wealth,
LuAn Mitchell’s Millionaire Mentor, and
The Dr. Pat Show. She is a co-author, along with Jack Canfield and Marie Diamond, of the best-selling book,
Strategies for Success.
Clients and presentation venues have included notable organizations such as:
- Agape International
- Bank of America
- Banner Hospital
- eWomen Network
- Institute for Management Consultants
- Kaiser Permanente
- Living Luminaries Conference
- Microsoft
- Mile Hi Church
- National Association of Women Business Owners
- Visa, Inc.
- Voice for Change
- Worldwide Success Network
- And many more

On a personal level, Karen is known by her clients and friends for her wonderful mix of interests in big, spiritual ideas and down-to-earth enjoyment of sports, travel and the arts. She’s a late-in-life newlywed living in Arizona with her beloved Bill, pictured here helping him carbo-load for an upcoming bike race. When she’s in your city, Karen can be found on her laptop at the closest Starbucks. Her permanent ‘happy place’ is the Esalen meditation zen doh on the Big Sur coast.