Essi Systems' management team brings decades of diverse experience and expertise in helping employees, executives and organizations create sustainable, measurable behavior change. Combining business acumen with technical savvy, the team creates innovative products and solutions that increase employee productivity, reduce corporate costs, and help employees and companies achieve exceptional performance and growth.
Esther M. Orioli - Founder and CEO
Karla Carmony - Vice President, Customer Experience
Esther Orioli is an accomplished entrepreneur, innovator, author, speaker and businesswoman. She is recognized as an international authority on leadership development, emotional intelligence, resiliency, stress and behavior change.
Essi Systems, Inc. is the second of two successful global consulting firms she founded. Essi Systems was started in 1983 on the principle of transforming workplace stress into optimal performance. Esther promoted the revolutionary idea of positive stress performance and developed StressMap®, the stress assessment instrument honored with the National Health Information Award. She later created the EQ Map® which is the premier assessment for emotional intelligence in business.
An expert in adult learning and practical application methods, Esther's trademark teaching and facilitation style is evident in her unique, effective and easy-to-use products and services. She is active in developing and moderating leadership and stress management programs for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies worldwide.
Esther earned a bachelor's degree in education from the State University of New York in Oswego, and a master's degree in education from Marywood College in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Karla Carmony joined Essi Systems in 1990 and has been involved in every aspect of the business. As vice president of customer experience, she is responsible for the company's operations, project management and product development. She oversees all online projects from the user experience and quality control to backend functionality and look-and-feel.
Karla manages vendor and consultant relations, and works with the CEO to develop distributor relationships for Essi's products and services in the U.S. and internationally.
Karla received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.