Karen is the founding partner of AltoPEOPLE and offers more than two decades of experience in corporate Australia and New Zealand. Karen has worked with prominent business in the public and private sector and has led cultural transformations in multiple environments. Commercially focussed, Karen applies a unique mix of hands-on practical problem solving and research-based rigour to her clients.

With an extensive academic background in behavioural science and business, Karen started her career in the mid-1990s and is called to solve challenges with compassion, simplifying how to apply curiosity to fast track performance and engagement with clarity.

After studying Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), she developed a specialisation in team and one-on-one sports performance coaching and has enjoyed success with several athletes and teams, including the Adelaide Thunderbirds and Adelaide Football Club.

Karen’s awareness of neuroscience and language releases potential without compromising authenticity; she aims to empower others to challenge established patterns and old ways in new environments and offers principles and practical advice.

Karen has a genuine desire to empower leaders to be discover their ‘more ‘and give them the tools and confidence to transform that ‘more’ into reality.