Karissa Corpeny
Team Coach

Karissa provides servant leadership to the Take the City staff, dedicated to seeing them grow as leaders and be effective in their respective roles. After spending 10 years at Ford Motor Co. as a mechanical engineer, 4 years in Jamaica as a missionary with Teen Challenge, 7 years in Columbus, GA helping to develop and facilitate the Emerging Leaders Program with Teen Challenge Southeast – she launched out in 2015 to start Redwoods Consulting. Karissa is a life-long learner and is passionate about seeing organizations create healthy cultures, effective servant leaders and empowered people resulting in the best possible service to the mission and those they serve. She now resides in the Kansas City area with her husband Pete, an engineering project manager at Herzog Corporation.