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Karen Brown, a poet and former university educator, founded Bridge Arrow, a Chicago-based management consultancy, to boost business profitability by emphasizing return on equity for investors, shareholders, and employees. With over 35 years of corporate experience, she has held senior executive roles at notable organizations such as Baker McKenzie, Baxter, Monsanto, Rockwell Collins, and Sodexo. Additionally, she has been an active board member for nearly two decades.
Karen specializes in advising global companies on how to drive growth and profitability by harnessing the business and people benefits of diversity, equity, and inclusion within and outside their organizations. As a sought-after global keynote speaker, she has shared her expertise at conferences across six continents, serving clients ranging from small start-ups and dynamic NGOs to Fortune 500 companies.
Her thought leadership has been featured in prominent publications, including the book Building and Encouraging Law Firm Diversity (Aspatore, 2016) and influential Harvard Business Review articles such as “To Retain Employees, Focus on Inclusion – Not Just Diversity” (2018) and “The Fear Black Employees Carry” (2021).
Driven by an insatiable curiosity about humanity, Karen has lived in and traveled to nearly 90 countries, using this rich experience to enhance her work.
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