Karen Lehman is a Senior Associate who has overseen significant CLA client work in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Past engagements include work with the Icelandic education system, Best Buy, the Scottish Executive (civil service), and Parent to Parent, an advocacy group of parents of children with disabilities working for system change.
Karen brings more than 20 years' experience in advancing multi-stakeholder initiatives in both urban and rural areas, and internationally as well as domestically. A systems thinker by training and inclination, she has focused her career on the nexus between business, government, and civil society on issues ranging from trade policy to food systems.
Her training and expertise in Adaptive Leadership are extensive. Karen received a Bush Leadership Fellowship to attend Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she earned a Masters in Public Administration with a concentration in Leadership studies. She remained at Harvard as Ron Heifetz's teaching assistant in two of his Harvard courses before joining CLA.