Karen is a highly driven, positive and pragmatic recruitment, coach and career management specialist, with a rich mixture of experiences spanning the Higher Education, Investment Banking and Actuarial Consulting sectors. As Director of Stakeholder Engagement at Warwick Business School, Karen is part of the senior management team with ultimate leadership responsibility for the Recruitment, Marketing, Careers+ and Employer Relations, Executive Education and Global Alumni Engagement sections. Prior to this she worked as the Director of Recruitment and Marketing at WBS driving the Schools growth strategy and leading a multi-disciplinary team of 65 specialists. In her earlier career she worked as the Careers Manager for the Full-time MBA at WBS and held various Graduate Recruitment roles within the financial services sector. Karen is a ‘coach’ at heart and is passionate about working with individuals and teams to identify their purpose and move forward with realizing aspirations, transitions and goals with positivity and a growth mindset. Having lived experience in demanding leadership roles, she brings empathy and understanding to those on a trajectory upwards in a volatile and uncertain world we all have to navigate as leaders.