KJ

Karen Jaw-Madson

Culture, DEI-B, Leadership, Talent Optimization, & Change Consultant/ Exec Coach/ Author/ Speaker/ Advisor to Execs & Boards

San Francisco Bay Area

Education

Work Experience

  • Principal

    2013

    Co.-Design of Work Experience is an independent consultancy that enables decision makers to address organizational challenges that affect business results, through: 1. Coaching and developing LEADERSHIP and their TEAMS 2. Enabling organizations to leverage CULTURE, DIVERSITY (DEIB), and EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE 3. OPTIMIZING TALENT by aligning people with strategy 4. Driving CHANGE MANAGEMENT & TRANSFORMATION What makes Co.- unique: โ€ข Proven expertise โ€ข Solutions customized to your specific context โ€ข Exclusive framework โ€ข Technology enabled for data driven insights

  • Instructor, LinkedIn Learning

    2022

    Creator and instructor for LinkedIn Learning on topics of expertise, leadership applied to DEI: ๐€๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ƒ๐„๐ˆ, ๐‚๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐†๐จ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ https://www.linkedin.com/learning/aligning-dei-culture-and-business-goals/the-choice-to-gain-or-lose-strategic-alignment-with-deib-23899419 ๐†๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  (๐‘๐ž)๐’๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ƒ๐„๐ˆ๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐Ž๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง https://www.linkedin.com/learning/getting-restarted-with-deib-in-your-organization/the-invitation-to-re-start-deib ๐’๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ƒ๐„๐ˆ: ๐“๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ, ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ž๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง https://www.linkedin.com/learning/sustainable-dei-taking-action-as-an-individual-team-and-organization/

  • Candidate Advisory Program Coach

    2023

    Work with candidates to prepare for board service, including personal value propositions, board bios, goal setting, and interview prep

  • Leadership Coach

    2021

    Sounding Board is a managed network of highly engaged, best-in-class leadership coaches that provides personalized and high impact development enabled by technology to leaders at all levels.

  • Instructor

    2020

    Teach BUS280 course w/my book, Culture Your Culture: Innovating Experiences @ Work as the main text at the Stanford Continuing Studies Program. In addition to demystifying the topic of company culture, this highly interactive course introduces leaders to the Design of Work Experience (DOWE) frameworkโ€”a step-by-step โ€œhow toโ€ for culture. Students of this course are co-creators of their learning experience. They are encouraged to bring their own company challenges to apply to the content. We also delve into common organizational โ€œpain pointsโ€ (issues and problems) and โ€œgain pointsโ€ (solutions to help unlock a companyโ€™s full potential). Students come away with the skills to lead culture in their workplace, align the organization, and unleash the true potential of their companies โ€œwalking the talk.โ€ Register here: https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/registration/cart

  • Contributor, Co-Author, and Co-chair of Working Group

    2020

  • Author

    2018

    Authored Culture Your Culture: Innovating Experiences @ Work (https://amzn.to/2J1OgaS) through Emerald Group Publishing, a global academic publisher founded in 1967 to champion new ideas that would advance the research and practice of business and management. Emerald manages a portfolio of over 300 journals, and 1,500+ teaching cases.

  • Investor & Partner

    2022

    Clear Lake Research (CLR) is a cutting-edge formulation and IP development house that creates formulation and device platforms that both stabilize and provide effective and targeted absorption of next generation bio-actives. CLR develops products in the Life Science industry that provide enhanced customer experiences, science-based products, and highest manufacturing standards. I support the growth of the business in various capacities, including advising, go-to-market, business development, communications, and talent & leadership

2016

  • Founder

    2016

    An online content-driven platform for readers to access thought leadership on the Future of Work & the Future of HR.

  • Member & Workstream Leader, Consortium for Change (C4C)

    2018

    Consortium for Change (C4C) is an invitation-only network of select coaches, consultants, leadership development experts, and transformation advisors that drive change and scale up for Business Insite Group (BiG) engagements. Co-leader of the Transformation Workstream.