About me
Karen Louise Floyd
Founder | Chartered PR Strategist | ICF-Certified Coach
Communicator. Coach. Creator. Connector. Advisor. Speaker.
WHO I AM
I am a British executive coach, strategic advisor, Chartered communications professional, and non-executive director. For thirty years, I have worked at the intersection of leadership, communication, and organisational performance — as a practitioner, an executive, and a coach.
I have held global CEO and CMO roles and founded my independent practice in 2008. I have worked with senior leaders at organisations including Google, Samsung, L'Oréal, LEGO, Advantech, and Concentrix, across technology, consumer, financial, and industrial sectors. I hold Chartered PR status with the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), am ICF-certified as an executive coach, and am a CIPR Council Member (2025-2027).
I don't just advise across cultures. I've lived them.
I have lived in Russia, France, Spain, and the UK, and worked extensively with the US, Norway, Morocco, and South Korea. My career has taken me from managing high-stakes commercial operations across North Africa, Russia, and Switzerland, to a Silicon Valley accelerator programme, to coaching senior leaders in some of the world's most complex organisations. That range is not incidental — it is the foundation of what I bring.
The experience I bring is not only professional. I have navigated grief, business loss, and the kind of rebuilding that happens when life removes the scaffolding entirely. When I work with a leader carrying more than they can show, I know that territory — not theoretically, but from the inside.
I work with leaders where the stakes are high, the margin for error is small, and legacy matters.
CREDENTIALS
ChartPR, DipCIPR, MCIPR · ICF Certified Executive Coach · Certified Peernovation Coach · Certified Teacher of Active Dreaming · CIPR Council Member · Former Global CEO & CMO · TINC Silicon Valley Accelerator alumna · Non-Executive Director
LANGUAGES English · French · Spanish · Russian
I believe that most leaders already know what they need to know. The intelligence is there. What gets in the way is the organisational culture that systematically suppresses it, the communication habits that obscure it, and the inner noise that drowns it out.
My work — whether coaching, advisory, or communications — is about clearing the interference so that the signal comes through.