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 Karen King, on CITY TV News "The Tale of Two Tracy's 

"Simply one of the best facilitators I have ever seen in action!"  Lesley Myers Project Manger, Beyond the Box

Leadership Skills for the 21st Century. 

With today's marketplace being what it is, every leader is building and leading diverse teams and that requires a different quality of leadership than has been required before.  Great minds think alike is no long valid. Finding the right fit in hiring, no longer means finding a "mini me". Helping your team members practice managing a diverse team helps them be a more valuable asset to your team as they understand how to make your products services and processes more engaging of today's changing population.

Avoiding Apartheid!

The changing demographic is the greatest opportunity in the 21st century, but many industries are ignoring it. As the population changes the power base remains the same. In North America over half the population are people of colour, but you can walk into many companies and classrooms and not see much of that diversity reflected. Which faculties are inclusive and which are not?  To avoid apartheid you must find the something or someone in your process that is sending away your diverse talent. Or perhpas your curriculm or teaching style only accomodates Eurocentric perspectives. Many departments start with a diverse group of freshmen and the graduating class looks very different. Why does that happen?  Or perhaps you have accepted a diverse group, but on the first day of class they don't show up.  

Diversity & Inclusion: Getting Conscious About the Unconscious.   

For years I banged my head against a wall not getting why my white colleagues didn't see the stereotypes they were perpetuating. More often than not I was met with resistance. No surprise because I was making them wrong for something they weren't conscious of. 
So I have been somewhat heartened by the latest Harvard research that talks about "unconscious bias".  My colleagues, smart sensitve, loving human beings who I adored in so many ways were just unconcious of the harm they were causing and as Maya Angelou says, when they know better they will do better, and my keynotes and workshops will help your team members "know better by sharing a vision of the world that they can all buy into and making them aware of the differencet they can each make in creating that vision. 

Embracing Your Added Value and Hidden Knowledge

You could be your company's secret weapon. We cannot be valued or bring value to our teams if we do not understand our value. The advantage of working with an inclusive team is that added value that they can bring, but if you aren't aware of it, you aren't goinvg to be This program gets you in touch with the hidden knowledge and added value that you are not aware you possess.  What is your area of expertise?  Is it an illness, or a culture, or a language or a sport or an experience that few people have, that can affect the way they see themselves or the way see the world.  

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Talent Development 

Karen King has been involved in talent development supporting emerging talent in the film and television industry for over twenty years.  She has developed strategies that can help employees who have never been in a leadership roles gain confidence and effectiveness in their new roles.  After a career of working with emerging talent, Karen has developed a system for helping talent gain the confidence they need to do what they have never done before. Having to get diverse talent pools up to speed and competiting successfully in a very competitive industry, Karen King can work with your emerging talent and get them ready to work well with a more experienced team.  A combination of practical professional skills and excavating the obstacles to their career advancement has seen coaching clients explode their success. 

Team Building

  Unlimited Reach will help your team overcome the challenges of resolving conflicts, diversity and inclusion, communication, brainstorming, creativity and collaboration.  Karen has boiled it all down in an easy to understand workshop called VISA for Success, which will put your leadership on the fast track to high performance results.  It doesn't matter where they are on the ladder to success, self-leaders or senior managers all benefit from the prinicples and strategies. Karen provides a safe space for you companies to engage in the reflection that they need to take their performance to the next level in whatever area they choose to focus on.  By helping your people reconnect to their strengths and their vision  disengaged employees can be re-engaged.