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 After
a twenty-year career with energy companies ARCO Oil and Gas and
Ashland Oil, where she focused on organization and talent
development, including coaching and development programs that
impacted the senior leadership of the companies, and
multi-cultural training for expatriate staff, as well as skills
training for local staff in China and Indonesia, for the last
seventeen years Dr. Karen Otazo Hofmeister has been a
no-holds-barred, dynamic thinking partner and executive coach
for executives in the US, Asia, China, Indonesia, the United
Kingdom, Europe, Singapore and Japan. She translated her
experiences with C-level executives in Booz Allen Hamilton,
JPMorgan Chase Bank, Colgate-Palmolive, Credit Suisse First
Boston, The Economist Group, FMC, General Electric, Goldman
Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Marks & Spencer, Motorola, PepsiCo, Time
International, and Vodafone into two successful business books:
The Truth About Managing Your Career and The Truth About Being a
Leader, Pearson/Prentice Hall – Business Books.
Karen has a doctorate in Human Resources Development and two
degrees in Linguistics. Languages and their effect on the way we
think first attracted her to multi-cultural work and have been a
mainstay of her unique talents for impacting individuals working
in different cultures. As a consequence, she has both lived and
worked in Europe in London, The Hague, and Paris, in Asia in
China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and New Delhi. Her consulting work
has covered many more countries. She speaks English, Spanish,
French, Indonesian, and Chinese.
Dr. Otazo Hofmeister is currently committed to taking an active
role in non-profit, NGO, organizations. Her local focus is on
empowering immigrant women in Texas to start their own
businesses. For Houston-based, 100 year-old, Neighborhood
Centers, Karen is working on an online publication in Spanish as
well as their capital campaign. She is on the boards of Vital
Voices Global Partnership and Best Partners and the advisory
board of the Tahirih Justice Center. As a member of WCD, Women
Corporate Directors, she attended their "Boot Camp." She is a
fellow of SOL, Society for Organizational Learning, at MIT.
Karen has been honored to work with Vital Voices Global
Partnership: In 2007 she worked with dynamic Russian women
leaders, presented at the Americas Summit in Miami and went to
Panama with a delegation to discuss leadership for women and the
establishment of a Vital Voices Chapter.
Karen and her husband, Shell Oil President John Hofmeister, have
established a not-for-profit, nation-wide membership
association, Citizens for Affordable Energy. This new public
policy advocacy firm exists to promote sound U.S. energy
security solutions for the nation, including a wide range of
affordable energy supply sources, essential infrastructure,
sustainable environmental policy, and public education on energy
issues. Karen serves on the organization's Board of Directors.
See More about Dr. Karen Otazo at
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