Coaching · Advisory · Training · Consultancy
Leadership across borders, when the stakes are high.
Leadership coaching and development for individuals and organisations who do business across countries and cultures. Karen helps leaders see what others miss, and decide well when the answers are complex, political and rarely obvious.
Leadership isn't only what you do. It's who you are when it matters.
- Individuals, teams and groups
- Worldwide, online
- English, French, Spanish
Karen has worked with senior leaders at
- Samsung
- L'Oréal
- Amorepacific
- the UN
- LEGO
- Chainalysis
- Advantech
For organisations · Leader as Coach
When every decision comes back to the leader, the leader becomes the bottleneck.
Leader as Coach teaches your leaders to coach their people to think, decide and take ownership, across cultures and generations.
Ways to work together
For your organisation, or for you.
Developing your leaders and teams
Support for you as a leader
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Why Karen, why now
We have never needed each other more.
Things change daily, and AI gives everyone the same answers. What sets leaders apart now is judgement, trust and the ability to bring people with them. That takes experience, and someone who will tell you the truth. Karen's approach, Signal Intelligence, helps leaders read the patterns beneath what people say, and act before weak signals become expensive problems.
30 years in international business
Leadership roles from start-ups and SMEs to global corporations. Karen has led businesses, built her own, and coached leaders in some of the world's largest.
She knows how decisions land
As one of the first 100 Chartered PR professionals in the world, she sees how a decision will be received by boards, teams, media and markets.
She reads people and cultures
Having lived in four countries and working in three languages, she notices what a silence, a tone or a hesitation means in context.
She looks after the whole leader
Performance depends on the person. Karen also works on resilience, mindset, rest and energy, through Executive Essence.
As an executive, I have faced countless high-stakes decisions, and Karen has been instrumental in helping me navigate them with clarity and confidence. Beyond the professional strategy, she has provided incredible support in managing the psychological pressures that naturally accompany leadership.
Philip LeeFormer CEO, Dr.G, Korea · worked with Karen for several years, including through the company's acquisition by L'Oréal
Another client, a senior executive in a global technology organisation, was promoted after working with Karen into a role created specifically around her combination of skills and experience.
Start with one question
What are you not seeing yet?
Begin with a 45-minute Signal Mapping Session: what is really happening, what may be sitting beneath the surface, and where your attention could make the greatest difference.
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