Karen Newell

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(MSc) (MBA) - Life, Leadership & Executive Coach

About me

Karen is a warm, attentive, and insightful coach who works with individuals seeking clarity, resilience, and meaningful change in both their professional and personal lives.

Her coaching style is holistic and highly personalised. Karen helps clients explore the interplay between career, identity, relationships, and wellbeing - recognising that professional challenges rarely exist in isolation from personal experience.

Clients describe Karen as approachable, perceptive and deeply supportive. She creates a safe environment that enables clients to unlock potential, challenge limiting beliefs, and take purposeful action.

With over 20 years of corporate experience, Karen understands workplace pressures, organisational culture and the realities of modern careers. This allows her to combine empathy with practical insight. Her academic background and professional memberships ensure her approach is grounded, reflective and psychologically informed.

Training, qualifications & experience

Karen brings over 20 years of corporate experience to her coaching, combining practical business insight with academic and professional expertise.

She holds an MSc in Organisational Psychiatry and Psychology from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, which informs her holistic approach to coaching individuals and the interplay between professional and personal development.    

Karen trained at the Centre for Coaching, London, pioneers of Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC), and integrates this evidence-based model into her practice. She is also a member of the Association for Coaching (AMAC) and the Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC).

In addition, Karen holds an MBA from Cranfield Business School.

Member organisations

AC
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Areas of coaching I deal with

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Additional information

Available on request.

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