Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong

BA (Hons), CSP

NSW, AUSTRALIA
Build confidence, safety and protection skills for your team from a world-renowned expert.

Karen Armstrong is a dynamic speaker – keynotes, dinner speeches and plenary sessions. She has performed at a wide range of events, and has the presence to create a friendly, welcoming environment, as well as keeping the audience totally engaged.


Karen presents at business, government and community forums, with solutions for threatening and aggressive behaviour. These skills show managers and front line staff how to create a safe, harmonious workplace.


Through 25 years of research and teaching over 30,000 people, Karen has developed a ground- breaking method of assault prevention. Ongoing consultation with the Institute of Criminology keeps Karen's programs at the leading edge of crime prevention.


Her Safety Strategies presentations have achieved outstanding results in transport, local government, enforcement, health, community services and customer service. This training is recognised as the benchmark of quality and effectiveness in workplace violence prevention.

Karen Armstrong is a dynamic speaker – keynotes, dinner speeches and plenary sessions. She has performed at a wide range of events, and has the presence to create a friendly, welcoming environment, as well as keeping the audience totally engaged.


Karen presents at business, government and community forums, with solutions for threatening and aggressive behaviour. These skills show managers and front line staff how to create a safe, harmonious workplace.


Through 25 years of research and teaching over 30,000 people, Karen has developed a ground- breaking method of assault prevention. Ongoing consultation with the Institute of Criminology keeps Karen's programs at the leading edge of crime prevention.


Her Safety Strategies presentations have achieved outstanding results in transport, local government, enforcement, health, community services and customer service. This training is recognised as the benchmark of quality and effectiveness in workplace violence prevention.

Dealing Professionally With Aggressive Behaviour

One-hour presentation or two-hour workshop covering the following key elements:
• Prevention through customer service
• Professionalism, confidence and defusing skills
• Legal guidelines and WHS protocols

Workplace violence is costly in both financial and human terms. Karen's Safety Strategies method has resulted in substantial savings for many organisations in workers compensation claims. This session is designed for frontline staff who are dealing with threat,...

Safety / SecurityAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changing

Freedom from Fear

One-hour presentation covering the following key elements:

  • Three simple techniques that could save your life
  • Built for survival - harness your deepest survival instincts
  • Practical strategies to protect yourself

 

The serious and sometimes fatal assaults we hear about through the media create feelings of fear and powerlessness. There is an immediate need for safe, legal, strategies to prevent assault.

This...

Safety / SecurityAudience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changing

Decoding the Predatory Mind

One-hour presentation covering the following key elements:

  • Five steps to create a safe, harmonious workplace
  • Identify the warning signs to act early for prevention
  • Positive body language - how attackers choose their victims

 

Managers, team leaders and staff are shown skills to create conflict-resilient workplaces with proven strategies for early intervention and appropriate responses for all forms of conflict, including harassment...

Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changing

Personal Safety Strategies

A practical interactive session that can be tailored to every audience. Focusses on realistic personal safety risks and the solutions to these. Includes:
  • Personal risk assessment
  • Simple, effective strategies
  • Your personal safety plan

Audiences leave feeling confident, uplifted and ready to live a larger life.
Audience ActivityEducational / InformativeTechnical / SpecificInspirational / Life-changing