About Us...

Creative Bandwidth was founded when a group of Fortune 50 business leaders, game designers, and entrepreneurs got stuck in a terminally dull 'team-builder' in Austin, Texas...

After that horrible, boring, frustrating all-day experience, founders Karen and Stephen Sopko decided on a different (creative, relevant, fun) approach to corporate and individual learning.

Our company mantra (Entertain, Educate, Inspire) is based on the notion that people learn best when they are fully engaged - and the best way to do this is by entertaining them.

Our mission is to prove that entertainment plus education yields inspiration.

We use a unique approach, and patent-pending methodology, to teach high-level business skills such as:

  • Sales
  • Customer Retention and Support
  • Interviewing & Hiring
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Negotiation
  • Global Teambuilding
  • Creativity Management

Our delivery methods include on-site events, pre-packaged games, on-line simulation, and interactive role-playing.

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About Karen Sopko

Creative Bandwidth President and CEO, Karen Sopko has been teaching and training strange and complex topics to adults for more than 20 years both in the US and Europe.  Karen’s background includes work for Equaterra, Boeing, Dell, EDS, Alcatel, Public and Private Universities, NASA, Norsk Hydro and Haarstick Sailmakers.

While at Dell, Karen was responsible for cross-pollinating EDS and Dell’s services outsourcing thinking in order to jump into the IT Services outsourcing market.

At EDS, Karen was one of 4 specialists in client/server services management assessing client helpdesks, asset management systems and field services organizations for Global 1000 companies.

She lived and worked in Europe for 4 years, training sales teams on relationship selling, proposal process, and quality issues for EDS and Alcatel Telecom.  Karen’s college career includes a dual B.S. in both Physics and Astronomy, and Masters level work with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.  She has taught Physics and Algebra for Clinton Community College, Math Boot Camp for SUNY Plattsburgh, and was briefly a substitute teacher in Brevard County Florida.