Karin May has accompanied well-known large and medium-sized family businesses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland over the last fifteen years. Her focus was on co-creating family charters together with the family members as well as mediation. Dur to her dual qualification in legal and systemic questions, Karin concentrates on facilitating orientation and decision-making processes, both in finding solutions to conflicts and in assisting the business-owning family developing concepts. Throughout the process the family members also learn about their interaction and how to improve communication.

Karin is working as a coach for members of family businesses helping them to find their role in the group of shareholders or as a managing partner. Another focus is working with (young) women who want to fulfil their own aspirations to combine family and career.

From 2011 to 2013, Karin was Managing Director of the INTES Family Business Academy. For years, she helped shape important events such as the FBN Global Summit in Berlin in 2007 and the Unternehmer-Erfolgsforum. Beyond her core work she is also member of the Ashoka Support Network where she provides coaching to different social entrepreneurs.

Karin is a lawyer, mediator and coach.