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Karen Purves  

An Australian by birth, Karen has lived and worked in Britain since 1978. She has a passion for understanding how people behave, and using that understanding to help individuals and organisations to achieve their business goals. She specialises in strategic thinking and implementation, change leadership and realising the potential of individuals.

Working as a consultant and interim manager , working for Safeguarding Children, several housing associations and Abbey Community Association, she has developed a unique approach to change incorporating the latest research from organisation development and learned optimism.


Karen’s career started with the blue chip companies of Tate & Lyle, Imperial Brewing and Leisure and British Telecom where she gained a through grounding in marketing and business. She has continually built on this with being a lecturer at a London based university and not-for-profit work. As a lecturer she helped students view their exams as opportunities rather than threats, and she used learning sets to help them become comfortable questioning and challenging each other, and working together. Her not-for-profit work involved socially disadvantaged people, such as refugees, asylum seekers, homeless people and those with serious mental illnesses.

Karen has an MA in marketing from the University of Greenwich, and a BA in mathematics from the Open University. She also has a marketing diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing and has recently studied Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry. Karen is a member of the International Federation of Action Learning (IFAL) and of the International Coaching Federation (ICF).

 
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