Doing It All: Women in financial meeting planning on the quest for work-life balance

To the outsider, Karyn Evans appears to have it all under control. A CMP and CMM, the 40-year-old is principal planner of meeting and event services for Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, mother of a 4-year-old daughter and stepmother of two adults, wife of an exec who spends 90 percent of the workweek on the road, and an active volunteer in her community.