Karen has gained a wealth of knowledge and experience across many industry sectors.
With over 20 years experience in Training and development, Karen’s career began in sales with two large corporate companies in the U.K, and with the Gulf Daily News in Bahrain, where she enjoyed two years as an expat. Success here led to her passion for learning, and helping others develop their knowledge and skills base, and importantly to help others become more self aware in order to improve their communication, decision making, and conflict management skills etc within their own team and organisation.
Karen worked as a Sales training manager, and Management development consultant with Yell.com for over 12 years, and has since worked as a Development consultant with companies such as Bryant homes, Red funnel ferries, British Telecom, Reed Business Information Services, and Bendicks of Mayfair Ltd.
Qualified as a Member of the C.I.P.D (Chartered Institute of Professional Development) Karen also specialises in the use of a number of Psychometrics including; Occupational Testing, Occupational Personality Questionnaire(OPQ 32) Motivation Questionnaire (M.Q) and the 360degree profile on Management Competencies by Saville and Holdsworth Ltd, also the MBTI, Belbin, and Firo. B, these are used in recruitment, Individual and team development, and in development programmes where appropriate.
Karen Designs and delivers programmes in a number of areas such as Team building, Change, Assertiveness, Stress Management, Leadership and Communication skills, and Sales.
Karen believes learning should be fun, her style during training is professional, energetic, and flexible, adapting to the needs of her audience ensuring learning translates to return on investment.