Karina Galvan-Torres

Vice President of Growth and Development

Karina Galvan-Torres is the VP of Growth and Development for BALANCE. Karina joined BALANCE in 2015 and has served our Financial Fitness Partners for the past ten years. She implemented new training resources for the Partner Relations Team to ensure a standardized and successful management of partnerships, developed new procedures to make cross-departmental collaboration easier, and assisted in website development programs. She possesses extensive knowledge on our programs and capabilities and is a natural at helping partners implement financial education and counseling.

In her current role, Karina is responsible for the Contact Center, Financial Fitness, Smart Money Coaching and EAP programs. She manages the departments and is tasked with evaluating and improving systems, and supporting growth through strategic planning. She also led our conversion from a legacy platform to Salesforce to create efficiencies in coaching operations and enhancements in outcome reporting. 

Karina is bilingual and holds a BS in International Relations and a BS in Spanish from Saint Mary’s College of California.