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Dr Karen Moloney
Dr Karen Moloney is a Chartered psychologist, author, columnist, writer corporate educator and facilitator and speaker on leadership topics. She is an expert in nurturing good professionals into outstanding leaders. Furthermore, she specialises in helping them prepare for the future, lead in challenging business environments and work across inter-disciplinary, remote and diverse cultural teams. Her work takes her around the world.
About Dr Karen Moloney
Dr Karen Moloney is a Chartered psychologist, author, columnist, writer corporate educator and facilitator and speaker on leadership topics. She is an expert in nurturing good professionals into outstanding leaders. Furthermore, she specialises in helping them prepare for the future, lead in challenging business environments and work across inter-disciplinary, remote and diverse cultural teams. Her work takes her around the world.
Dr Karen Moloney is an HR expert and speaks on the future, demographics, talent, the building of emotional capital, and culture change. As a business psychologist with an interest in human difference, Karen’s approach tends to be pragmatic based on sound experience of what works in the companies and what doesn’t. She takes a long hard and critical look at such issues as diversity and performance pay and smashes a few management myths along the way. In much demand on the conference circuit her delivery is peppered with humour, energy and wisdom.
Dr Karen Moloney graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in natural sciences, specialising in psychology and then a PhD in psychometrics. Working on assessment of competence, she gained experience in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, measuring workforce and management excellence. She left after three years to found her own business. For over seventeen years, Karen grew an HR consulting practice, Moloney & Gealy, from scratch to 5 partners, 10 staff and 40 associates, turning over £1m. Her clients included many household names from the public and private sectors, amongst them global legal, consultancy and accounting practices. Clients included Nestle, two UN Agencies, Prudential, Glaxo SmithKline, P&G and Unilever and her experience covers the manufacturing, IT, financial and service sectors.
In 2004, she set up Moloney Minds in order to concentrate on thinking, writing, speaking and working with a smaller group of select clients worldwide. Her current portfolio includes professional services firms, global manufacturing and financial services. Her current interests cover male and female leadership styles, the impact of technology on business models and strategic alignment in complex matrix organisations.
Karen’s work over the past couple of years has included advising companies on attracting and retaining its top talent, the building of emotional capital within organisations, the development of competency frameworks as a culture change tool, and the creation of career and personal development opportunities to retain individuals.
Dr Karen Moloney is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the Chartered British Psychological Society and the World Future Society and is a regular contributor to the press and radio.
Resillience and Discipline: Hanging in and hanging on (100 Chief Executives of companies under the Bonnier Group, Stockholm Sweden, January 2013)
Leading in a Crisis (Investment bankers from BNP Paribas in Bahrain, October 2012)
Strong Leadership (Bankers from Danske Bank in Copenhagen, January 2013)
Aligning Strategy (Senior executives from Jaguar Land Rover, UK, January 2013)
Leading Change: Whitewater and flash floods (Senior managers from Boehringer Ingelheim, Moscow, October 2012)
The Future of Sex (to festival-goers at the Secret Garden Party, UK, August 2012)
Topics currently covered:
- Business
- Change management
- Generation X, Y and Z
- Human Resources
- Innovation
- Personal Development
- Psychology
- Teamwork
- Transformational Leadership
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