Karen is the Global Head of Mental Health & Well-being at ERM. As an individual and group psychotherapist, she has a depth of both clinical and teaching experience in psycho-social risk, personal development and Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging. Karen has been responsible for developing and rolling out successful coaching programmes and a series of accelerated development programmes to equip individuals to be better positioned for entering senior leadership roles within ERM. In doing so, Karen has taken the role of lead facilitator, covering a wide range of topics such as organizational development and change, human-centric leadership, emotional intelligence and resilience. During the Covid 19 pandemic, Karen was responsible for leading ERM’s internal focus on the health and welfare of its employees, developing and delivering workshops globally for line managers to help raise awareness of the importance of mental health in the workplace and designing a 10-week Mental Health Champion programme for the business, covering topics such as burnout, anxiety and depression. Karen has recently developed a leadership program, which is grounded in contemporary research from the fields of inter-personal neurobiology and neuroscience, and highlights how organizations can maximize opportunities for wellbeing to drive safety performance by integrating it into their business strategy. Building wellbeing into day-to-day work itself, takes an organization’s focus from short term interventions to support individuals, to more sustainable interventions that address overall worker wellbeing throughout the organization at large.