About Karen
A Dramatically Different Approach for Our Digital Era
I work with executives and engrepreneurs, CISOs, change-leaders and activist who spend every work day (and more) pushing boundaries, influencing thinking and behavior, impacting stakeholders and teams, and constantly learning and growing.
As technology enables innovation at increasing speeds, our human side of the equation has not always kept up with this rate of change and it has been bad for our health, relationships, and our ability to cope. Very often, this unnecessarily leads to burnout, shadow addictions if not outright addiction, loneliness, stressed health, high turnover and stressed businesses.
I help you turn the relentless shock waves of change into resourceful energies that can catapult you forward rather than be sidelined or torn apart.
… when yo are ready to do something different, we give you the where-with-all to get on with the life you want. Actually, that’s not quite ture. We don’t give you anything. You already have what you need within you, but it is not being used! We help you identify, strengthen and then master those underutilized aspects… like your personal trainer does for you in the gym.
And most importantly we get you back on track quickly and then get out of the way!
My Story
Karen spent four decades exploring a single question: how can a species that navigated from caves to the stars still be unable to stop hurting the people closest to us and worse people under pressure and in positions of stop seeing people as fully human?
That question began on a farm in Australia and sharpened through studies in physics and philosophy of science at the University of Melbourne, years directing ocean-based youth leadership programs, and decades of work in peacebuilding, interreligious dialogue and transnational organized crime at the United Nations. At every level — from young sailors discovering hidden capacities to diplomats unable to access their better selves under pressure — she found the same pattern. Good people, losing what they knew in the moments it mattered most.
Her education and inner drive led her to piece together the framework that became Transilience — grounded in thermodynamics, the biology of living systems, and neuroscience. But it was forged at her kitchen table, where the breaking news beside the coffee cups turned out to have physics and remarkable possibilities underneath it all along.
Holding a BSc in physics (Melbourne), an MDiv, and a DMin. She is the founder of Transilience.io and creator of the TQ Edge leadership training. She lives with her husband Kevin, whose breakfast-table challenges have helped sharpen every idea and resource.
If the framework can’t reach her kitchen table — or yours — she considers the elegance of the science is of little value.
Karen will never be accused of underestimating you!
Why Work With Me & My Team?
Having worked in high-stakes, high-pressure, even life and death environs myself. I know how precious time is. And I know good solutions when I see them. More than ever, today they need to be fast—and yet uncompromising in terms of quality of solution.
I could go into the philosophy, the history of testing and more, but they take up time.
The point here is that in 2 hours a week for 4 weeks, you to get what you need to start making the difference in your life that matters the most to you right now.
Where stress is taking a toll, learn how to use it’s energy to drive key differences you want. If you are already a little singed at the edges, you learn how to access more of your own resources to reinvigorate your life. Surprisingly easily and fast!
Oh, and did I say that you will start to have fun again? That is essential!
Books & Publications
Transilience
A User’s Guide to Being Remarkably Human
A User’s Guide to Becoming Remarkably Human
United Nations Unlocked
If business as usual does not work in our VUCA world, where do we go from here?
Change !t Up
Simple steps that make big changes possible after loss, grief, and trauma
United Nations Unlocked
Reprinted in Chinese
Can the United Nations become an organization that serves our metahumanity, all nations, environment, and our collective future? Is so, what are the first steps…
Qualifications & Awards
Not all that is valuable is measured by words on parchment. But they do count.
Education
- Doctor of Ministry—Peace and Justice
- Masters of Divinity
- Bachelor of Science—Physics/History and Philosophy of Science
- Licensed US Coast Guard Captain (Former)
Experience
- Coaching and Training International Teams
- UN ICT Network Visioning
- Director, International Relations for NGO to the UN
- President NY Bus Charter and Tour Operator
- Ocean Challenge Director of Education
Recognition
- 2-Time Amazon Best Seller, 2016, 2017
- 2015-2016 NAPW VIP Circle
- Inter-religious Woman Leader in the Holy Land, 2004