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Karen King, B.A., MCATD is an instructional designer and dynamic keynote speaker and facilitator helping companies maximize their leadership potential. King shares the unique opportunity today's market presents to enhance their bottom line while fulfilling the human need to make a contribution to our society and the groups in our lives. Helping teams enhance their communication, conflict resolution, creativity and inclusion skills with organizational development and strategic planning. Marketing Diversity is Karen's strategy for serving your market.  Karen is on the Advisory Panel of the Ryerson School of Media and an Adjudicator on the Ontario Panel of the Broadcast Standards Council. She has served as a director on a variety of boards. The President and CEO of Unlimited Reach and the Cheif Diversity Officer at Productions Without Borders, Karen is ready to help your team discover how to keep pace with todays changing market and make inclusion matter. 

Karen King's experience in Diversity and Inclusion includes six years in a leadership role for a national government agency with six regional offices, the National Film Board of Canada, spearheading the Diversity in Action Plan as the producer on the Special Mandate Team for cultural diversity whose pilot projects became national initiatives.  The films she produced under this initiative became the most successful films in the studio, winning Gemini nominations over other films produced in the studio.  Karen continued her implementation of effective strategies to level the playing feild at Toronto 1 where she ensured that the production fund resources were shared equally between diverse producers and those who represented the 20th century mainstream.  

King worked her way up in the film and television industry from p.a. to network executive , producing a movie and docs, hosting live television, and commissioning a wide variety of genres. When she became a network executive, she was surprised that while broadcasters were held accountable for reflecting the population off screen, producers and unions were seemingly off the hook. Producers have no employment equity obligations despite all the federally regulated monies they use to create Canadian content.  

"I spent years angry and frustrated that the industry wasn't embracing the opportunity I saw. I felt helpless in the face of the resistance I encountered, and often took it personally. It eventually dawned on me that my colleagues refusal to accept diversity with inclusion didn't mean they were being malicious. They were unconscious of their biases. Beyond casting they really didn't know how much more could be done. What I had learned throughout my career was a blind spot for most people." So Karen developed a hassle free process that all business can enjoy, helping sectors from R&D through to sales and distribution do a better job of engaging the 21st century mainstream marketplace. Now I provide them with a vision that everyone can embrace and that gives them a sense of the value that diverse team members can bring t their content.  The same principles apply in all business. 

Karen is a member of Canada's Who's Who, as the first black woman in Canada to produce a movie, and one of the elite group of international producers with a world premiere in the Official Cannes Film Festival.  Highlights of her award winning career include a senior management role at Quebecor, a producer at the National Film Board of Canada, and a Drama Content Production Executive at Global Television.  Karen has experience supervising the development and production of a variety of television genres from lifestyle to variety, docs, drama and comedy, with hits like Combat Hospital, and Da Kink in My Hair. She uses her experience to coach beginners and veterans on diversity, business and career management. 

Karen is a past director of Canadian Women in Communications, and a member of the Canadian Standards of Broadcasting Council Panel. Her career achievements have been recognized by the African-Canadian Excellence in Media Award. Karen is the only person to win the Gemini's Canada Award twice.  That award is presented to the television program that best exemplifies the multi-cultural nature of the country on and off camera.