Karen Gotthelf brings over 20 years’ experience spanning organisational consulting, workplace wellbeing, and psychological support across professional services, corporate, healthcare, not-for-profit, and private practice settings in Australia and Hong Kong. While completing an MRes in Professional Practice at Birkbeck, University of London, she co-authored, piloted, and began validation of an evidence-informed questionnaire designed to identify systemic workplace psychosocial factors that may either undermine or protect workers’ health and wellbeing.

Karen partners with employers and business leaders seeking to better understand the workplace conditions shaping workforce health, wellbeing, and performance. She combines academic rigour with commercial practicality, helping clients translate insight into practical resources and interventions that support wellbeing, leadership capability, and organisational effectiveness.

Her core services include third-party anonymous workplace psychosocial safety reviews, leadership assessment and development with a focus on emotional intelligence, and the design of bespoke, evidence-based solutions and resources.

As an ICF Accredited Coach (ACC), Karen also offers executive coaching to support leaders navigating performance, transition, and leadership challenges, with a focus on sustainable effectiveness and the interpersonal and wellbeing demands that often accompany senior responsibility.

Karen holds master’s degrees in Organisational Psychology and Counselling from Monash University. She is pursuing postgraduate research examining what organisations can do to better protect senior leaders’ health and wellbeing during high-stakes redundancy events.