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EXECUTIVE COACH 

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR
KEYNOTE SPEAKER

MENOPAUSE CHAMPION & GROUP COACH

KAREN STEIN

MIDLIFE LEADERSHIP SERIES

Midlife is a defining stage of leadership.
It is where experience is high, expectations are higher, and the way you lead needs to evolve.

I help leaders navigate this shift with clarity, confidence, and sustained impact.

Empowering midlife leaders to be their best selves

Success begins with a single choice.

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THE MIDLIFE SHIFT

Midlife is a defining moment.

At this stage, leaders bring experience, wisdom, resilience, and perspective.
They are often at their most capable and most influential.

Yet this is also where complexity deepens.

Leaders often experience:

  • shifting energy and focus

  • questions of identity and direction

  • rising self-doubt or pressure.

For women, this may include perimenopause and menopause.
For men, it may include evolving identity, pressure, and changing leadership expectations.

At the same time, organisations may see:

  • leadership leakage

  • presenteeism

  • confidence and wellbeing erosion.

What I see in organisations is capability being undermined by context.

This is where The Midlife Leadership Series focuses.

Through Midlife Momentum™, I strengthen how leaders lead from within, building clarity, focus, and self-awareness.

Through M.A.D about Menopause™, I help individuals and organisations understand and respond to perimenopause and menopause as a wellbeing, leadership and workplace issue, strengthening confidence, connection and retention.

Together, these create leaders who are confident, capable, and connected, and organisations that retain and elevate their most experienced talent.

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When midlife leaders are supported well, their shift is powerful.

Leaders move forward with clarity, confidence, and impact.

The Midlife Leadership Series provides leaders and organisations with strategies and practices in support of their continued success.

Midlife Momentum™

For all leaders navigating midlife

Keynotes | Executive Coaching | Workshops

Lead with clarity. Strengthen confidence. Sustain performance.

M.A.D about Menopause™

Making a Difference in the Workplace

Keynotes | Coaching | Workshops | 

Support yourself & your people. Retain talent. Strengthen your leadership pipeline.

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With more than 30 years in professional services, including 24 years as a Deloitte Partner, I bring deep leadership experience together with evidence-based coaching.

As an Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker, and author of Be Your Own Leadership Coach (self-coaching strategies to lead your way), I work at the intersection of leadership, midlife, and meaningful workplace change.

I work with organisations delivering keynotes, leadership programs, and coaching programs which are practical, evidence-based, and designed to create real change.

Blending commercial leadership experience with coaching psychology, I help leaders and organisations move from awareness to action.

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"With Karen's coaching I was able to realign my goals and priorities and gain a deeper understanding of how I can work at my best.

As a coach myself it has been great to learn from such an amazing professional, who has a warm, engaging and supportive approach. I highly recommend Karen as a business and kindness coach."

 
Senior Strategic Talent Specialist @Microsoft

"Karen is very passionate about the coaching and development of female business leaders. I found Karen to be an amazing listener, very knowledgeable and empathetic, and her ability to apply positive psychology in her work made the whole experience a very positive one.

I left each session feeling optimistic about the future and my next steps. I highly recommend Karen as an executive coach."

 

2024 Outstanding Leadership Award Winner, C-Suite Executive, Non-Executive Director 

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International award-winning book

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Karen's international-award winning book, 'Be your own leadership coach (self-coaching strategies to lead your way)' is increasing the equity of access to self-coaching strategies, and filling the backpacks of leaders with coaching practices.
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