Experience: Karen is a self driven consultant whose business ethos is to ‘’make a difference and add value’’. Her career has seen her take a business unit which was running at a £60k loss and turn it around within two years to a £1.4m turnover. She has established three business divisions within different companies from scratch and has made them into effective profit-making centres, each within three years. She has some 15 years experience at senior level including 8 that of Director and has worked in Belgium and Holland as well as supporting organisations in USA. 1-2-1 and team coaching with Karen has involved; negotiating the division of shares to allow directors to implement personal exit strategies form their business whilst leaving a healthy and profitable team in place for the future, raising of finance through a variety of channels including the use of Business Angels, provided mentoring to newly appointed senior executives and facilitated succession planning for more established top teams. Key strengths: a commitment to adding value to all clients, highly motivated to achieve success, challenging and creative she acknowledges and utilises networking opportunities, her ability to lead change in client organisations, adaptability and flexibility of approach to focus on meeting client needs.