Karen Delk

HR Executive with enterprise wide experience leading organizational design, talent management, leadership development, and integration of HR critical functions. Skilled in implementing sustainable change and cultural shifts focusing departments toward championing the corporate strategic vision, mission and goals.

Forward thinking, self- motivated and able to partner across complex organizations to develop strategic and tactical solutions in response to business challenges. Accomplishments include: leading the human resource function, designing next generation leadership programs, leading succession planning strategies, executive coaching, curriculum design, talent sourcing, talent acquisition and talent development.

Karen is the Founder and President, Davis Delk Consulting, LLC a boutique executive coaching and management consulting firm. As a senior human resource practitioner and corporate executive, Karen's leadership accomplishments have been cultivated within for profit and non-profit sectors, with extensive experience in coaching and consulting senior leaders across diverse lines of business. She is forward thinking, innovative and able to partner across complex organizations to develop strategic and tactical solutions in response to business challenges.

Her business acumen, her 20 years of strategic and operational expertise and the application of human capital principles are credited for successfully transforming and aligning domestic and international HR organizations with corporate business imperatives. Karen specializes in establishing sustainable change and cultural shifts focusing leaders toward creating and championing the strategic vision, mission and goals.

Her background includes: leading the human resource function, designing next generation leadership programs, leading succession planning strategies, executive coaching, curriculum design, talent sourcing, talent acquisition and talent development.

Karen has Masters of Science degree in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics from Mount Holyoke College. She received her Evidence Based Coaching certificate from Fielding Graduate University and her advanced leadership training and development through various corporate university programs including GE's Crotonville, GrandMet/Pillsbury's PDI's Successful Leaders and Prudential's Excellence in Leadership.

Karen is passionate about the power of coaching and creating change. As a result of her commitment, she created and launched a Princeton Cable Television show, New Beginnings celebrates the creativity, courage and wisdom of people creating change. New Beginnings, explores lessons that accompany changes both welcome and unwelcome and covers topics from the worlds of business, education, health and the arts. Her guests share stories that inspire viewers to make positive changes within their own lives and communities.