Karen Schwenke

Karen Schwenke

With over 20 years’ experience both nationally and internationally, Karen focuses on the application of new skills, behaviours and mindsets with all of her clients; she understands and embraces the need for the application of learning to gain results.

Her emphasis has been on working with frontline management, senior executives and board members to drive performance and innovation; she is continuously modelling her commitment to continuous improvement by expanding her portfolio of tools and processes to ensure individuals transition from thinking, to doing to being.

Karen’s strengths include adaptability and excellent communication skills making her a highly-valued consultant with clients in state government, local government, natural resources, NFP’s and all sizes of commercial organisations.

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Specialty areas include:  

  • Facilitating strategy development and operationalisation
  • Leading in complex, challenging and changing environments
  • Equipping teams for success
  • Communication and interpersonal skills development
  • Innovation and continuous improvement activities and skills

Memberships:  

  • Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management WA
  • Fellow of the Institute for Learning Professionals  

Qualifications:  

  • Masters of Commerce
  • Graduate Diploma in HRD
  • Bachelor of Science
  • Certificate IV in Quality Management Assessment,
  • Certificate IV in Training & Assessment
  • Lead Auditor Training in Quality Management Systems
“After completing my MBA and Majoring in Leadership, I engaged Karen as my personal business coach. Karen gave me the strength and confidence to help me realise my potential. She worked with me on my focus and what’s important to me in my career. She gave me clarity which assisted in altering my mindset on some issues, this motivated me and gave me assurance when dealing with difficult people. Her wealth of knowledge and her coaching skills gave me the tools to move outside my comfort zone. I also engaged Karen to work with the Strathearn Insurance Brokers team (now Arthur J. Gallagher) on a series of workshops which included Influencing and presenting Insurance together with Negotiation skills. The team found this to be extremely successful.“
Karene Kirk-Burnnand 
Karene Kirk-Burnnand  ‎ Divisional Administration & Human Resource Manager

Coaching

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Karen’s accomplishments in her career benefit coaching clients and inform her razor-sharp listening and questioning skills to get to commitment and accountability.  Her ability to form rapport with all types of diverse individuals is unique and valuable; her ability to appropriately challenge teams and individuals while supporting them to creates action and results is consistently appreciated by her clients.

Coaching Focus:

  • Frontline managers, senior executives and board members
  • Managers tasked with strategy and change initiatives
  • Clear, concise communication and commitment


Tools include:

  • Human Synergistics LSI
  • Genos EI
  • Myers Briggs Type Indicator

Clients include:

  • AIMWA
  • CBH
  • City of Perth

Facilitation

Facilitation

Karen facilitated group processes throughout her consultancy utilizing processes such as design thinking, appreciative enquiry and world café. She knows how to balance the constraints of resources with a consistent, persistent focus on possibility thinking.

Facilitation Focus:

  • Continuous improvement identification
  • Strategy identification and operationalisation
  • Change and process mapping

 

Tools include:

  • World Cafe’
  • Design Thinking Processes
  • Appreciative Enquiry

Clients include:

  • AIMWA
  • CBH
  • WA Health
  • Venues West

Learning and Development

Learning and Development

Karen has designed and delivered learning and development solutions throughout her consultancy. While she knows and shares evidenced-based theory, she understands the need for results for ROI and observable change and she achieves this focus by creating psychologically safe learning and exploration environments.

Facilitation Focus:

  • Frontline managers, senior executives and board members
  • Managers tasked with strategy and change initiatives
  • Clear, concise communication and commitment

Tools include:

  • Experiential learning activities
  • Experience mapping to outcomes designed

Clients include:

  • AIMWA
  • CBH
  • WA Health
  • Venues West

Strategy

Strategy

One of Karen’s “super powers” is her ability to dig deeply and respectfully to understand the current landscape for clients seeking to create or adjust their strategy.  This brings benefit to clients as she can frame future-state planning realistically with tangible actions as an output.

Facilitation Focus:

  • Western Australian state and local government organisations
  • Complex commercial organisations
  • Not-for-profit organisations

Clients include:

  • AIMWA
  • CBH
  • WA Health
  • Venues West

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