With an unmistakable Jersey attitude — complete with the requisite love for beach and Bruce — Karen is a popular presenter, empowerment and ability with application.
Whether she’s hosting her signature podcast, “Let’s TAWK Leadership,” tending her Keep it Real™ Leadership program for emerging leaders, or inspiring a room full of executives, Karen readily shares practical, real-world insights and skills that are immediately applicable to both individuals and businesses.
She delivers creative keynotes and facilitates interactive workshops that cover topics ranging from leadership to communication to team development. With Karen’s guidance, participants will uncover new possibilities and achieve their full potential.
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KEYNOTE TOPICS
Entrepreneurship sparks excitement! You’ve ticked off all the boxes: business name, entity, plan, team, marketing, growth strategy. But wait, have you considered your leadership role in all this? It’s easy to get caught up in execution and overlook the crucial aspect of leadership. How are you going to lead this endeavor — and all the people involved in it?
Defining your leadership style is critical for your business to grow. And once you understand it, you need to ensure your team understands your leadership identity, the culture you’re fostering, and your plan for moving forward.
Beware the pitfalls of neglecting your professional development — and the need to lead your teams — amid the hustle. If you don’t grow as a leader, your venture won’t grow either. It’s like peanut butter & jelly: You just can’t have one without the other.
With Karen as your guide, you’ll learn how to prioritize your growth journey as you navigate the exciting path of successful and rewarding entrepreneurship.
Sink or swim is not leadership development. To ensure leaders have the tools and resources they need to excel, Karen draws from her signature leadership development program, Keep it Real™ Leadership, to impart practical, applicable, real-world skills. She takes participants through the steps they need to create, inspire, and LEAD a high-performing team.
Who’s in Charge of Your Career? YOU Are! It’s vital to take a proactive role in shaping your professional journey to align with your values and career aspirations. Success comes from continuous learning, self-awareness, and growth—on repeat. Take back your power and take charge of your career by being intentional about your development every step of the way!
So many of us are looking over our shoulders to see what everyone else is doing. And then we think: “I can do that. Oh, I can do that, too. Let’s shift away from the exhausting habit of constant comparison, and embrace the beauty of our individuality. Stop looking at everyone else, and figure out who you are and what is your natural genius. Then go for it!
Karen will show you how to discover and own your uniqueness, so you can showcase what you offer to the world with confidence, clarity, and conviction.
Karen has hosted more than 50 “Let’s TAWK Leadership” podcasts and counting. Drawing on insights gleaned from her interviews with wildly successful executives and entrepreneurs across industries, she will share the importance of understanding who you are as a leader and developing/adhering to a set of guiding principles that let you successfully navigate the business world — as well as some elusive secrets of effective leadership that inspires.
What you say matters, as does how you say it. Effective leaders understand how to maximize their own communication styles to influence their audience’s perception. Karen guides participants through the “Five C’s of Effective Communication,” giving them tools and best practices to land their messages and achieve the results they want.
Karen is co-author of “The AdviseHERy Board,” a manual for women who want to move their businesses to the next level by creating their own boards of directors. In this special keynote created specifically for women, Karen shares the who, what, why, and how of creating this major life- and business-affirming tool for success.