Karen has over 30 years of experience development at both the strategic and operational level. Karen’s clients span a wide range of industries in both public and private sectors including the NHS, Higher Education, Private and Public Schools, the Motor and Finance Industries as well as local government and Olympic Sporting Teams.Karen specializes in the challenges facing businesses, as well as those of early-to-late phase start-ups in both the UK and mainland Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Karen is an inspiring presenter with a talented approach to delivery and draws on her skills and intuition to get results. Karen’s experience have led her to develop a wide range of programs, with a specialty in delivering solutions that demonstrate real, measurable change. Programs include executive level to team leadership to sales leadership training.Core skills include leading and developing a highly-functional corporate culture, Executive and Board development, transformational leadership effectiveness, sales team and sales leadership development, and team effectiveness.Karen listens to and understands clients’ needs and becomes an integrated, collaborative member of the team. She gains client's confidence through empathy, which results in well-received discussions and quick implementation of changes. Her approach is based on well-developed, evidenced based methodology and she works across all levels of an organisation.To view a list of courses I run, please see the Courses Section at the bottom of my LinkedIn profile or visit my website www.karenknowles.co.uk See a list of clients in my profile and a number of client organisations Karen has worked with under the Projects section.