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Karen Knight Consulting

Meet Karen

Karen Knight is a consultant, volunteer leadership expert, and a dynamic and engaging speaker.

With over 25 years of experience speaking and running workshops, both in person and online, Karen has honed her presentation skills to a high level of effectiveness.

Her workshops (45 – 60 mins) are hands-on, practical and useful for volunteer leaders with all levels of experience and training.

Her keynotes (30 – 45 mins) are inspiring and energizing, and packed full of useful suggestions and thought-provoking ideas. Karen loves to challenge the status quo!

Karen has used her decades of experience as a leader and mentor in the social impact sector to develop a proprietary framework for turning volunteers into an enthusiastic, reliable and committed team.

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Suggested Topics

  • Trends in Volunteering
  • 5 Steps to Building a Stellar Volunteer Team
  • Advocate Effectively to Your Board
  • Successful Board Engagement
  • Creating a Community of Practice
  • The Volunteer Lifecycle

If you have anything specific that you would like addressed, contact Karen to arrange a customized keynote or workshop.

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Recent Talks & Appearances

Volunteer Halton: Workshop Presenter (Advocating to Your Board)

Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House: Workshop Presenter (Volunteer Lifecycle) & Facilitator (Creating a Community of Practice)

BC Special Olympics: Workshop Presenter (Running Productive Meetings)

Regional District of Nanaimo: Workshop Presenter (5 Steps to Building a Stellar Volunteer Team & Successful Board Engagement)

AVM United Kingdom: Workshop Presenter (Language of Volunteering) & Panelist

PAVRO: Workshop Presenter (5 Steps to Building a Stellar Volunteer Team)

United Way BC: Workshop Presenter (5 Steps to Building a Stellar Volunteer Team)

Karen's thought leadership is keenly focused on the people involved, at all levels of the organization.
Dean BlackDirector, Professional Development, PAVRO

Recent Podcast Appearances

Karen shared insights and guided attendees of the Language workshop into conversation and consideration in a way which enabled them to come to their own conclusions relevant to their sector and situation. Her enthusiasm and gentle approach to communicating was exceptionally well received by attendees of the conference.
Sally SeddonCVA, Conference Organizer, Association of Volunteer Managers, United Kingdom

Dynamic, motivating and we all felt that what we had learned would be easy to implement

On behalf of Kamloops Immigration Services team members, I wish to express our gratitude for Karen Knight’s training. The activities she proposed and the examples she shared during the training were very useful. Her presentation was dynamic, motivating and we all felt that what we had learned would be easy to implement in our day-to-day practice.
France LamontagneExecutive Director, Kamloops Immigrant Services