CAREER + LIFE​

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Hello, I am Karen Rene, an ex-Big 4, Leadership Accredited Coach, and Start-up mentor with 15+ years of experience in Business & Tech. I managed over 50+ teams and guided 200+ external clients/partners across organisations of all sizes, from start-ups to leading global organisations, from various industries (Retail, FMCG, Automotive, Hospitality, NGOs, and Tech). Throughout my career, I was fortunate to lead large business transformations and enable effective organisational development initiatives, bringing together teams of Introverts and Extroverts, through Integrated Business Planning, data gathering and radical collaboration (a principle of design thinking; feel free to read more about it here).

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In my tenure at Deloitte, I assisted the world's most valuable luxury brand, two of the world's largest hotel companies and world-leading French manufacturers. Most recently, I was the Global Head of Digital Operations at Aesop and a member of the Global Digital & Technology Leadership team. In this role, I provided guidance to distributed cross-functional teams primarily located in Australia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the UK, the US, Italy, and Hong Kong.

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I have a holistic understanding of the inner workings of business and am an expert at bringing different teams together. I also gained a unique perspective on how different personality types fit within a business. I was privileged to guide former coworkers in using their introversion to navigate the sometimes turbulent waters of their careers. I now extend this guiding light to all introverted individuals, offering a path to success no matter where they may work.

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I am a French and Australian citizen. I lived in Paris, Melbourne and now reside in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.​​​