About David & Karen Gamow
For more than 30 years, David and Karen Gamow have helped leaders and employees thrive in high-pressure environments.
Trusted clients include NASA, National Park Service, GE, U.S. Navy, Stanford University, and the American Heart Association.
Founders of Clarity Seminars, they have trained more than 40,000 professionals across North America, delivering practical tools for resilience, communication, focus, leadership, and stress management.
What makes their work effective: the combination of scientific research, practical workplace application, and immediately usable techniques. Participants leave with tools they can apply the same day—to stay calm under pressure, communicate more effectively, recover more quickly from setbacks, and perform at a higher level without sacrificing their health and well-being.
Their programs have become recurring components of leadership development initiatives at organizations including NASA, GE, and the Social Security Administration. Consistently rated among the highest-scoring trainings offered by their clients, Clarity Seminars programs are known for being engaging, practical, and genuinely transformative.
David Gamow
David is a keynote speaker, trainer, and entrepreneur whose presentations combine humor, insight, and practical wisdom. Before founding Clarity Seminars, he built a successful career in finance and became one of UBS's youngest Vice Presidents. He has launched several businesses and led successful business turnarounds. He has firsthand experience of the pressures faced by executives, managers, and high-performing teams.
Drawing on decades of teaching and real-world leadership experience, David helps participants understand how stress affects decision-making, relationships, productivity, and performance—and takes participants step-by-step toward greater clarity and effectiveness. He motivates audiences with a direct, challenging style that includes a healthy dose of humor, colorful analogies, and a deep understanding and empathy for how the human mind works.
Karen Gamow
Karen brings warmth, insight, and exceptional communication skills to every program. Her background includes more than three decades in writing, marketing, advocacy, and nonprofit leadership. She has worked extensively in crisis communication and public outreach and has appeared in television, radio, and print media.
Participants consistently appreciate Karen's ability to create a welcoming learning environment and guide practical breathing, relaxation, and resilience exercises that can be used immediately in everyday life.
“We are a German company with mostly engineers in our workforce. They are a demanding audience when it comes to training and a tough crowd. However, this training has been very well-received and highly-rated here by our employees, much more than we anticipated. I was surprised at how many people signed up for this session. We only have about 300 employees here in the Detroit area, and more than a third have attended your sessions over the past year. I recommend this training highly.”
“It’s pretty amazing how this program can change your thought process in just a few hours. It was by far the most relevant and eye-opening training in my 20 year career with the NPS.”
Featured In
The Gamows’ work has been featured in The Huffington Post, Money Magazine, Investor's Business Daily, Industry Week, and Gannett News. They are authors of Freedom from Stress: How to Take Control of Your Life.
“Our employees include some of the country’s finest research scientists, and they gave this program top ratings. It’s a big plus that the program is based on clinical research and that people can experience the results of the techniques first-hand. Even our traditional skeptics were won over.”