About Karen Tweedie PCC
Karen is an ICF Professional Certified Coach. She is passionate about loyalty, learning and leadership. She has a life-long interest in seeing people at their best, and holds herself accountable to this. She takes up the challenge by maintaining her own personal and professional development and by practicing her own leadership in her work and volunteer work.

Karen is committed to seeing Coaching become a true profession. She has been active in a number of profession-building coaching communities. Her most important involvement has been with the International Coach Federation (ICF) dating from 2001. Since that time she been a local Chapter volunteer, Director of Communications, Director of Chapter Presidents and Regional President for the Australasian International Coach Federation (ICFA). Since January 2006 Karen has had a place on the ICF Global Board. She is the current Secretary/Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee.

Apart from her own Executive Coaching Practice, Karen is Director of Coaching for Coachbroker Pty Ltd - www.coachbroker.com. In this capacity she is responsible for sourcing, recruiting and quality assuring the Coachbroker pool of executive coaches. These coaches provide coaching services to blue chip public companies.

She is a CoachCorp-trained coach, and has co-facilitated these programs since 2002. She has an extensive background in education at all levels, and has run a training, facilitation and consulting practice since 1991. Karen brings a depth and breadth of understanding of organisational development and the interplay of human behaviour, motivation, and communication to her work with clients.

Karen is married and the mother of four children who continue to help her understand the challenges inherent in values-based leadership.