Naomi Karten is a consultant and author specializing in communication, change management, and service management in technology organizations. She is a long-standing member of the community that formed around gerald-weinberg and aye-conference.
Karten co-edited amplifying-your-effectiveness-2000 alongside Weinberg and james-bach, a collected volume that brought together practitioners working in the tradition of humanistic, systems-oriented software development. Her own work on communication and organizational behavior reflects Weinberg's influence, particularly his emphasis on congruent-behavior and the interpersonal dimensions of technical work.
She is the author of several books on managing expectations, handling change, and improving communication in IT organizations—themes that parallel Weinberg's concerns in becoming-a-technical-leader-1986, secrets-of-consulting-1985, and the quality-software-management-framework series. Karten has been an active voice in the broader community of practice that Weinberg helped create.