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I enable decision makers to address organizational challenges that affect business…
Courses by Karen
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Sustainable DEI: Taking Action as an Individual, Team, and Organization1h 11m
Sustainable DEI: Taking Action as an Individual, Team, and Organization
By: Karen Jaw-Madson
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Aligning DEI, Culture, and Business Goals1h 11m
Aligning DEI, Culture, and Business Goals
By: Karen Jaw-Madson
Articles by Karen
Contributions
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Here's how you can navigate new technologies and automation in your career.
To survive in the age of AI, one of the biggest names in the field recently said, “…the skills that matter the most are deep familiarity with the tools and staying abreast of changes to develop a deep intuition of how to make use of it…the ability to learn new things fast and adapt with them to evolve yourself with the technology.” This describes LEARNING AGILITY. The 9 dimensions identified, validated, and measured by the Burke Learning Agility Inventory (BLAI) are: flexibility, speed, experimenting, performance risk taking, interpersonal risk taking, collaborating, information gathering, feedback seeking, and reflecting. Know your baseline and work to develop your capability in all of these areas.
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How can you support leaders in creating psychological safety for diverse teams?
My LinkedIn Learning course, "Sustainable DEI: Taking Action as an Individual, Team, and Organization" (https://www.linkedin.com/learning/sustainable-dei-taking-action-as-an-individual-team-and-organization/your-power-in-sustainable-dei-change) shares the need for actions and behaviors to be specific to the context, but outlines three starting points to establish and preserve psychological safety: 1. Be an awesome ally, 2. Continuously pay attention, listen, and learn, and 3. Practice dialogue.
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How can you balance listening and questioning when facilitating a group?
"Our worlds are formed by the questions we ask." Questions created with positive framing invites people to engage in genuine dialogue, where new knowledge and possibilities are uncovered. As described in the book, Conversations Worth Having, "Positive framing is not only about focusing on the positive. It is about focusing attention and action on where we want to go and what we want more of." Effective questions are generative--ones that inspire, leverage diverse points of views, even innovate.
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How do you deal with resistance or conflict during a workshop and foster a positive learning environment?
The best learning experiences can be co-created. As a facilitator, I use group coaching with my participants to provide the agency to ideate and decide the direction they want to develop together.
Activity
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"We’re all fucking winging it." -- Ryan Reynolds at Fast Company's 10th Annual Innovation Festival. More Reynolds: "At Maximum Effort, my company…
"We’re all fucking winging it." -- Ryan Reynolds at Fast Company's 10th Annual Innovation Festival. More Reynolds: "At Maximum Effort, my company…
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Experience
Education
Licenses & Certifications
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Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) & Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI)
National Training Systems
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Organizational Culture Inventory-Organizational Effectiveness Inventory (OCI/OEI)
Human Synergistics
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Volunteer Experience
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Advisor, Mentor, and Facilitator
Women's Corporate Board Readiness
- 1 year 9 months
Education
Initially involved as an advisor, now expanded to mentor and facilitator in support of each cohort of executive women board candidates
Publications
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A Woman's Guide to Navigating A Successful Career in Healthcare Information Technology
Routledge
This book features over 50 of the industry’s brightest female pioneers who share insightful lessons backed by several years of experience, as well as tips for navigating a successful career in HIT. The intent of this book is to provide the opportunity to capture stories from highly successful women to inspire the next generation who want to pursue a career in HIT and to inspire those already working in the field who are eager to advance in their careers. This book also provides insights on…
This book features over 50 of the industry’s brightest female pioneers who share insightful lessons backed by several years of experience, as well as tips for navigating a successful career in HIT. The intent of this book is to provide the opportunity to capture stories from highly successful women to inspire the next generation who want to pursue a career in HIT and to inspire those already working in the field who are eager to advance in their careers. This book also provides insights on industry opportunities, ways to deal with harassment, the history of female tech innovators, and negotiating competitive salary and employment agreements. Additional industry experts provided guidance on tapping into venture capital funding and tools for career development. A comprehensive resource guide and glossary of industry terms are also included. Co-authors included: Amy Sabillon, MSI, Ayanna Chambliss, CAP, SHRM-CP, Lindsay Rowlands, MHA, and Stacey B. Lee, JD.
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The Secret Sauce for Leading Transformational Change
Routledge
This book highlights the practical experience of several hundred leaders who contributed their expertise on the art and science of leading transformational change. It includes diverse and sometimes conflicting perspectives on transformational change from CEOs and other senior business leaders, CHROs and other senior HR leaders, transformational change experts, authors, coaches, and consultants. These experts have executed and delivered on transformational change, and share insights, vivid…
This book highlights the practical experience of several hundred leaders who contributed their expertise on the art and science of leading transformational change. It includes diverse and sometimes conflicting perspectives on transformational change from CEOs and other senior business leaders, CHROs and other senior HR leaders, transformational change experts, authors, coaches, and consultants. These experts have executed and delivered on transformational change, and share insights, vivid stories, and lessons learned on what to do, how to do it, and what to avoid. There really is a secret sauce for leading transformational change!
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Culture Your Culture: Innovating Experiences @ Work
Emerald Group Publishing
Organizational culture isn't just a hot topic-it's an untapped asset and potential liability for all businesses. And yet, for all its potential to make or break, few know how to manage cultures with proficiency. Culture Your Culture: Innovating Experiences @Work provides the much-needed "how-to" with Design of Work Experience (DOWE). Tapping into human-centered design, interdisciplinary innovation concepts, and other research, this leading edge approach partners employees and their employers in…
Organizational culture isn't just a hot topic-it's an untapped asset and potential liability for all businesses. And yet, for all its potential to make or break, few know how to manage cultures with proficiency. Culture Your Culture: Innovating Experiences @Work provides the much-needed "how-to" with Design of Work Experience (DOWE). Tapping into human-centered design, interdisciplinary innovation concepts, and other research, this leading edge approach partners employees and their employers in unprecedented ways to co-create solutions and differentiating experiences that are customized, relevant, and profoundly impactful to the organizations for which they are intended-all while building employee engagement, learning agility, and capability.
Be open to changing mindsets, for this is not your typical business book. Part-business case, part-instructional, and part-commentary, the guidance offered here puts your organization--not some detached case studies-at the center to envision how DOWE can help you design solutions and experiences unique to your context. Culture will no longer be esoteric or intangible, but overt, meaningful, fully leveraged, and truly experienced. No more hacking through trial and error to a culture that lacks sustainability. We can practice the management of culture and organizational change through lived experiences, with intention, rigor, and discipline.
Leaders, managers, teams, and employees alike will benefit from understanding the need for this approach, how it's defined, why it works, and what to do to successfully tackle business challenges and positively influence lives with this innovative model-if you are willing to do the work to get there.
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