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Karen McAllen

Trailblazer · DISC type DI
Chief Executive Officer at Agile Business Consortium
📍 Wokingham, England, United Kingdom

Karen McAllen is the CEO of the Agile Business Consortium, specializing in business transformation and people-centered organizational change. With an MBA Essentials from LSE, she focuses on creating environments where teams thrive. Colleagues describe her as a results-oriented, people-first, and fantastic leader, particularly skilled in promoting employee well-being.

Outside of her executive role, Karen is a mother who enjoys spending quality time with her family and staying active at the gym. She has a passion for true crime podcasts and has spoken about her experiences navigating parenthood alongside her career.

Unique fact: Before her career in business and technology, Karen had an unexpected career twist working in the film industry.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Chief Executive Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Wokingham, England, United Kingdom
Personality Overview

How Karen shows up

Friendly But Fast
Achievement-Oriented
Charismatic

They are charming and have the ability to align others behind their decisions. They respond better to a combination of speed and relationship. They will bat for you if they come to believe in you.

Priorities

Topics Karen cares about

Business Agility
As CEO of the Agile Business Consortium, she leads a global professional body focused on advancing and promoting business agility.
Organizational Culture
She is passionate about building commercially sustainable, people-centered organizations and has authored articles on cultivating an agile culture.
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Career

Work history

10-2025
Chief Executive Officer
Agile Business Consortium
6-2024 - 10-2025
Managing Director | Board Director
Agile Business Consortium
7-2022 - 2-2024
Chief Operating Officer
The ITAM Review
1-2020 - 7-2022
Managing Director
The ITAM Review
11-2018 - 1-2020
Operations Director
The ITAM Review
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
7-2021 - 10-2021
MBA Essentials
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
1997 - 1999
Education details unavailable
BURNHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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