Karen Anastasia Prescod: Leadership Speaker
Leadership keynote speaker Karen Anastasia Prescod helps leaders strengthen communication, accountability and human connection, drawing on corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, community service and lived experience.
Quick Facts:
- 17 years of corporate experience and more than 20 years of entrepreneurship.
- Managed multimillion-dollar accounts and led teams through growth and change.
- Former chair of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce’s Women’s Council.
- Co-led the Social Impact Council as attendance grew to well over 100 in less than three months.
- Formats:
Keynote speaker.
- Audiences:
Executives, managers, emerging leaders, HR professionals and nonprofit leaders seeking stronger communication, human connection and accountability.
- Outcomes:
- Examine how personal assumptions influence communication and judgments about performance.
- Distinguish observed performance from assumptions about the person, using questions to clarify the situation.
- Hold clear expectations while responding thoughtfully to grief, change and unseen challenges.
- Travels from:
- **Fee range: $5,001 - $10,000
Keynote Topics
Remember to See Them: The Human Side of Leadership
What if the employee you think has a performance problem is carrying something you cannot see? Remember to See Them challenges leaders to look beyond assumptions without lowering standards. Through Karen’s framework—See Yourself.
See the Performance. See the Person.—leaders examine their own impact, address performance clearly, and create space to understand the human being behind the work. The keynote helps leaders hold the standard, see the person, and get the results while strengthening accountability, trust, and workplace culture.
Intentional Communication
A practical, hands-on leadership workshop that helps leaders communicate with greater clarity, simplicity, and purpose. Participants learn to cut through assumptions and unnecessary words to get to what actually needs to be said—with grace, maturity, and respect.
Because people cannot read our minds, effective leadership requires intentional communication that makes expectations clearer, strengthens understanding, and reduces the confusion that can damage trust, relationships, and results.
Promoted. Now What?
When the role changes but nothing prepared you for it. This practical leadership experience equips people to lead effectively when a promotion changes how they relate to those around them—whether they are new to management or now responsible for leading people who used to be their peers.
Participants explore the shift from colleague to leader, how to communicate expectations, build trust, navigate changing relationships, and lead with greater confidence and awareness.
Working Alongside Grief
Leading through death, loss, and the life changes we don’t always name. This session helps leaders and teams better support people through grief—from death to losses and major life changes that are not always recognized or acknowledged. Karen brings practical awareness to how grief can show up at work and helps leaders respond with greater humanity, respect, and understanding while still navigating workplace responsibilities and expectations.
Talent Short Bio
Karen Anastasia Prescod is an international leadership keynote speaker, entrepreneur and community leader who helps organizations strengthen human connection while maintaining accountability and performance standards.
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Karen moved to the United States at age 20. Her career spans 17 years with major corporations and more than 20 years of entrepreneurship, with experience in retail management, mortgage lending, health insurance and nonprofit leadership. She has managed multimillion-dollar accounts, led teams through change and founded Prescod Life and Health, The Bowtie Gurl and Bowtie Kids.
Karen has held multiple leadership roles with the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce, including chairing its Women’s Council and helping transform its Nonprofit Council into the Social Impact Council. Her community service also includes the Broward Sheriff’s Office Social Justice Task Force and Nova Southeastern University’s nonprofit advisory board.
Her experiences with chronic pain, the sudden loss of her wife and solo travel across five continents inform her understanding of the challenges people carry unseen.
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