Karen Feeley
Trainer
Karen Feeley is an award-winning trainer and facilitator, instructional designer, project manager, editor, and published author who, since 1996, has provided workplace learning consulting services to a world-wide client base that includes Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and multi-lateral organizations. In 2009, she founded Comprehensive Learning Solutions, which offers a full suite of top-quality training-related services.
Domestic and international organizations have hired Karen to advise them on instructional design, training, and workplace learning matters. Whether she conducts needs analyses, identifies a workable training strategy, designs courses, trains trainers, conducts training, manages training projects, or mentors less experienced training professionals, she brings creativity, pragmatism, and empathy to her work.
Throughout her career, she has created or taught courses on a wide range of topics, including cultural awareness, interpersonal networking, instructional design, facilitation, performance management, goal setting, internal consulting, financial literacy, business management, diversity awareness, agricultural best practices, financial audits, sexual assault and harassment prevention training, Ebola prevention, and interpersonal communication. She has leveraged her expertise in cross-cultural communications to design and deliver training in China, Cote d’Ivoire, France, Georgia, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Tanzania, the Philippines, the USA, and Zimbabwe.
Karen holds an MBA in Human Resource Management and Training and Development from George Washington University and a BA in Chinese Area Studies from American University. She has presented on workplace learning topics at multiple conferences and has published several journal articles, In her spare time, she has published a novel entitled Project 20/20: The Experiment and a non-fiction book entitled Easier Done Than Said: Living with a Broken Voice.
Read Karen's interview on GLC: https://www.growlearnconnect.org/node/136