Karen Kane ConsultingCapabilities

2015

Karen Kane Business leader and strategic partner• Advisor to Chairmen, CEOs, corporate boards and senior leaders• Former SVP Corporate Affairs Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Board

Secretary• Highest ranking woman officer at the Chicago Fed at the time

• Recruited to re-engineer corporate affairs; completed a year earlier than projected at a cost savings of $1 million

• Critical role during 9/11 attacks, developed crisis plan for Federal Reserve System• Initiated MoneySmart Week, citywide financial literacy program, now national in scope

and underwritten by MasterCard• Opened a new Visitors Center; Wrote and produced award-winning film, The Power of

Money

'On demand‘, customized expertise• Deep corporate communications experience• As a staff member and an outside consultant

• Project development/project management • Strong capability for developing full-scale plans• As lead project manager or fill-in resource when internal staff is spread thin

• Partner in execution• Doing whatever needs to get done

• Team player• Adept at working behind the scenes to bring projects to completion

Critical skills and experience• Crisis and reputation management• Strategic stakeholder/community campaigns• Employee communication and engagement• Integrated communication and marketing• Executive communication in a social media and mobile world• Agile, deadline-driven writer; “The Content Creator”• Corporate Social Responsibility dating back to the ‘90s

Crisis and reputation management• Key leader in crisis management at the Federal Reserve during 9/11• Led development of crisis communication plan for the Federal

Reserve System• Skilled at evaluating and appraising internal and external environment

from perspective of diverse stakeholders• Work with CEOs and other leaders to understand and manage the

24/7, always-on forum

Corporate governance expert• Frequent speaker in governance forums;

contributor to publications•Author of the book, “Voices of Governance: Why

Oversight Is Important to All of Us”•NACD Governance Fellow•Currently working with the Chairman of a global

joint venture on corporate governance

Strategic stakeholder campaigns

Stakeholders have grown in diversity, number and importance• Develop programs based on

• Knowledge of issues• Strategic monitoringTo anticipate and leverage new opportunities

• Proactive campaigns • MoneySmart Week• Opening of new Money Museum

• Managing crises • “Know them before you need them”• Walking in stakeholders’ shoes

Employee communication and engagement

• Adept at developing plans for keeping employees informed during crises and transitions• Anthrax threat at the Federal Reserve• Acquisition of CNA by Allstate

• Creative employee engagement solutions• Surveys and meaningful follow-up• Employee recognition

• annual reports • videos

• Developed, piloted and launched an employee suggestion recognition program for a waste company’s 5,000 employees in 500 district locations

Experienced executive coach •Work with CEOs, CIOs and C-suite executives to improve

executive presence

• Selected by the University of Chicago as one of seven partner firms to provide executive coaching to faculty and staff

Integrated communication and marketing

Develop and execute complex programs

• ‘Orchestra leader’ who brings together diverse elements for the greatest impact

• Skill and experience to anticipate and manage many moving parts• Convened the first MoneySmart Council that created the foundation for a city-wide

financial literacy program with 100 partners and 700 events the first year• Federal Reserve of Chicago launch of new Money Museum including events with

Chairman, production of a new movie, The Power of Money, which won a Bronze Telly• Developed pro bono plan for premier Chicago non-profit

Executive communication in a social media and mobile world

• Developed “True Talk”, a framework based on work with Second City to help leaders make the most of impromptu conversations and small group meetings• Work with CIO to add professional presence to his operational

leadership• Developed plan for building reputation outside the company

• Improved speeches and forums for Chicago Fed president

Consummate writer and editor

• Adept at utilizing traditional and social media to inspire, persuade and engage key constituents• Regular contributor to Briefings on Leadership + Talent, Korn/Ferry Institute

quarterly publication• International distribution to CEOs and directors

• Award-winning staff writer at Houston Chronicle, Boston Globe, Vineyard Gazette• Former major metro daily editor• Lifestyle editor of Houston Chronicle• Produced 9 sections a week• Led 25 reporters, designers and copyeditors of award-winning sections

Corporate social responsibility• Key role in facilitating activist shareholder meeting with management

of a global waste company at the the height of environmental activism• Wrote and managed company's first environmental health and safety

report• NACD Governance Fellow, author of "Voices of Governance: Why

Oversight Is Important to All of Us", frequent panelist and writer on stakeholder issues

Global perspective• Communication leader in international companies• Working with global partners, developed and distributed press releases,

handled major recall of satellite product in South America, managed communication of remedial actions

• Diverse consultant assignments for international asset management firm• Current work on a global joint venture• Advise chairman• Work with JV staff to draft minutes, develop board policies and committee

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