Karen’s story
Business strategist, embodiment facilitator, and sound healer with 35+ years of experience in commercial leadership and consulting. Karen knows what it’s like to juggle a growing business, family responsibilities, and the pressures of leadership, all while managing her own energy and health as she transitioned into menopause. Now, at 55, she is stepping into her most powerful phase; her work is rooted in her Serotina philosophy, a belief in blooming later in life and that women in their 50s and beyond can lead with wisdom, power, and renewed purpose.
She started her first coaching business in 2004. After an 11-year career with Hays Plc managing small teams and building strategic partnerships across brands, her children were approaching school age, and she realised how much she wanted a more flexible and fulfilling professional career.
She was still ambitious, but the expectations of work hours and demands of meeting sales targets wouldn’t work if she wanted to be at the school gates each day.
Within six months of starting up, she was awarded European Social Funds for her Women’s Enterprise Programme and Simply Marketing Workshops, which was instrumental in helping hundreds of women start up their own businesses across Surrey & Sussex.
She went on to set up a regional women’s networking group in 2005, created & ran a membership site teaching 100+ members digital marketing strategies, wrote her first book, Shiny Shiny, and launched dozens of online courses and group programmes over the next decade.
But in 2012, struggling with adrenal fatigue and hormonal imbalances, Karen was burnt out from constantly launching new programmes and marketing campaigns, exasperated by dealing with grief from losing her father to cancer two years previously. She closed down several of her programmes and switched business models to offer longer term consultancy work and deep business strategy work with clients.
After several frustrating years of trying to ‘fix’ myself and ‘make myself better,’ I realised there were no shortcuts to my recovery. But being told to ‘rest more’ became a real challenge, even though I knew logically that I needed to reduce my body’s stress.
My brain was constantly whirling away, and my nervous system was on high alert so I found it incredibly difficult to relax and do nothing.
During my recovery journey, I was introduced to sound healing and embodiment work, and these practices became a game-changer for me. I decided to go on to study sound and movement, and after many years of deep practice, I am now a qualified Level II Sound Healing Practitioner and I will finish my Embodiment Facilitator training in the Autumn of 2024.
It’s been an incredible past few years, and it’s time to start sharing my wisdom and spirituality with business leaders like you.
After the launch of her second book, True Profit Business, Karen developed her Grow Strong® planning processes, which became her flagship programme, Momentum, which she led alongside her team, Alexia, Melina and Ed, for more than 7 years.
As a Menopause Champion and understanding the unique challenges women face during this phase of life, Karen has also hosted an annual Embrace Festival and has been instrumental in developing menopause support programmes for organisations.
she has also recently launched a new sound and embodiment company for business leaders, Serotina Sound & Movement.
You can read about the full story of how Serotina was created here.
Bridging the gap between commercial business success and spiritual connection to energy and self.
