Karen Van Druten

Karen has 20 years of experience in executive management and senior human resources roles, including 8 years specialising in change management, leadership effectiveness and developing high performance cultures. She has also designed solutions for employee satisfaction and retention strategies using a strong orientation to aligning human resources practices to business performance.
Karen's main consulting work across both the private and public sectors is in five areas: working with senior manager teams and HR professionals on the formulation and implementation of strategy, enhancing people practices for business performance, large change and restructuring projects, organisational reviews and M&As, and the design and facilitation of learning & coaching programs. Her clients include QBE & QBE Mercantile Mutual, Coca Cola Amatil, Clark & Walker (Mitre 10), Burkert Pty Ltd., ABC, Sony Music (Australia) P/L, Suzanne Grae, Accor Services, NSW Dept. of Education, Tasmanian Dept. of IER., Ericsson Australia Pty Ltd, Australian National University, University of Wollongong, Australian Federal Police and CCH Australia Pty Ltd.

Karen is an accredited facilitator and career coach and teaches Strategic Human Resource Management on both the AGSM, MGSM, & Mt Eliza/Melbourne Business School MBA/MBA (Executive) programs in Sydney, Beijing & Hong Kong. She is also an Advisor/ Assessor on the UTS Work Based Learning MBA.