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Kara Ahern

Enthusiast · DISC type i
Senior Project Manager at Caterpillar Inc.
📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Kara is a Senior Project Manager with 15 years of agency experience in advertising and marketing for major B2C and B2B companies. At Caterpillar, she manages Electric Power initiatives and develops standardized workflows. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University and excels at leading integrated teams.

She is dedicated to cultivating constructive relationships and spreading positivity among internal teams and clients. Her focus is on creating supportive and collaborative environments, ensuring alignment across strategy, creative, analytics, and media from project inception to completion. Her approach fosters seamless project execution.

Kara has shared a presentation online related to a social media summit, indicating her interest in digital marketing strategies.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Senior Project Manager
Job Level
Middle
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Personality Overview

How Kara shows up

Consensus Focused
Optimistic
Story Driven

They tend to be agreeable by nature, so take their promises with a pinch of salt.
 They prefer to build relationships rather than staying totally transactional. Unlike D or C types, they are convinced more by stories and testimonials.

Priorities

Topics Kara cares about

Electric Power Initiatives
Currently owns end-to-end program management for Caterpillar's Electric Power initiatives, covering gas, diesel, energy-as-a-service, and aftermarket solutions.
Standardized Workflows
She develops and implements standardized workflows, master templates, and operating procedures to improve efficiency, a practice adopted across her team at Caterpillar.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Senior Project Manager
Caterpillar Inc.
2-2022 - 3-2024
Senior Project Manager
Edelman
3-2018 - 2-2022
Senior Project Manager
gyro
10-2015 - 3-2018
Account Executive
gyro
2-2015 - 7-2015
Account Executive
Havas Worldwide
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2006 - 2010
Bachelor of Arts Degree
Michigan State University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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