About
Karen Louise Floyd
Executive coach, strategic adviser and Chartered PR strategist, and founder of Leadership in English. She helps leaders who work across borders see what others miss, and lead well when the stakes are high.
- 30 years' experience
- Start-ups to global corporations
- English, French, Spanish
Her story
From the seat you sit in.
Karen has spent 30 years working across leadership, business, communication and reputation. She has held CEO and CMO roles in international businesses, built and ran her own consultancy for 18 years, and has worked with start-ups, SMEs and global corporations, including senior leaders at senior leaders at Google, Samsung, L'Oréal, Amorepacific, the UN, LEGO, Chainalysis and Advantech.
As one of the first 100 Chartered PR professionals in the world, she brings a strategist's eye for what leaders' words, decisions and behaviour signal to others. As an ICF- and Peernovation-certified executive and team coach, she brings depth, challenge and care. Clients describe the combination as rare: practical and grounded, and also deeply human.
She has lived in the UK, France, Spain and Russia, spent extended periods in Norway and the US, and works in English, French and Spanish. She knows first-hand what it takes to lead and build trust across cultures, and in another language.
As AI makes information available to everyone, this is the kind of experience that becomes more valuable, not less: judgement shaped by real decisions, real consequences and real people, across cultures.
The question underneath much of her work is simple: what are you not seeing yet?
Industries
Experience across sectors, not just in the coaching room.
Karen has worked inside and alongside these industries as an executive, strategist, communicator and coach, so she understands the commercial pressures, the stakeholders and the reputational stakes.
Technology
- Hardware manufacturing
- SaaS and PaaS
- FinTech
- EdTech
- Web3
- AI
Consumer and lifestyle
- FMCG, especially consumer tech and beauty
- Travel and tourism
- Hospitality
- Real estate
Industry and media
- Manufacturing
- Publishing
- Commercial fishing and aquaculture
- Marketing and PR agencies
Not-for-profit
- Membership organisations
- Trade associations
- Non-profits
- NGOs
Why now
Why leaders need a thinking partner more than ever.
Leaders are making bigger decisions, faster, with information filtered through more layers than ever: teams, reports, dashboards and now AI. As more work runs through technology, the human side of leadership matters more, not less.
More information, less insight
AI can summarise anything. It cannot tell you what matters, how a decision will land, or carry the consequences. It also tends to agree with whoever is asking.
Judgement is the scarce resource
Research by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University in 2025 found that the more people trusted AI, the less critical thinking they applied. Leaders need people who sharpen their judgement, not replace it.
Across generations and cultures
Several generations and many cultures now work side by side, often through screens. Relating well, and helping others do the same, has become a core leadership skill.
Hear from Karen
Why I coach.
Karen on what coaching makes possible, and what she brings to it from 30 years in international business.
What Karen draws on
- Leadership and global business
- Thirty years in international business and leadership roles, from start-ups and SMEs to global corporations, so she understands the pressures of the seat you sit in.
- Chartered PR experience
- A strategist's eye for what your words and actions signal, and how they shape trust and reputation.
- Integrative coaching
- Her Diploma in Integrative Coaching, an ICF-accredited programme, brings together several coaching approaches around the individual.
- Positive Intelligence
- Mental fitness tools to quiet the inner critic and lead from a calm, clear state, especially under pressure.
- Peernovation
- The power of peers: the belief that leaders grow faster and think better together.
- Life across cultures
- Having lived in the UK, France, Spain and Russia, with extended periods in Norway and the US, Karen brings a deep, first-hand understanding of how culture shapes leadership, communication and trust.
- Spiritual practices and traditions
- In-depth study of many practices and traditions, and a certified teacher of Active Dreaming, offering tools for reflection, intuition and insight beyond conventional coaching.
Credentials
Qualifications and roles
- One of the first 100 Chartered PR professionals in the world
- Member of the Council of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, 2025–2027
- Chart.PR, MCIPR, DipCIPR
- ICF- and Peernovation-certified executive and team coach
- Diploma in Integrative Coaching (ICF-accredited programme)
- Certified teacher of Active Dreaming
- 30 years in international business and leadership roles
- Works in English, French and Spanish
Start here
A Signal Mapping Session.
A 45-minute conversation about what is really happening, what may be sitting beneath the surface, and where your attention could make the greatest difference.
hello@leadershipinenglish.com