Karen Dillon

New York Times best-selling author,
3X Clayton Christensen co-author and keynote speaker

Bio

About Karen

Karen Dillon is a former editor of Harvard Business Review magazine and the coauthor of three books with Clayton Christensen, including the New York Times best-seller How Will You Measure Your Life? She’s also the co-author of The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems – and What to Do About It, which was named a Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea of 2023. Karen is currently on the faculty of Intermountain Leadership Institute and a contributing editor to Harvard Business Review. She was once named by Ashoka as one of the world’s most influential and inspiring women. A popular speaker, Karen is available for paid speaking engagements, including keynote addresses and interactive workshops.

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Speaking

Watch Karen's powerful TED Talk

"Do you have a strategy for your life?"

No one aspires to a life of unhappiness. But that’s exactly the strategy we so often unwittingly pursue. Here’s how to avoid that fate.

Interactive Workshop:

The Microstress Effect

Are you and your team struggling to do your best work under the pressures of everyday work and life? Our research on high performers may explain what’s going on. In this workshop we will explore an invisible, but insidious form of stress that can derail even top performers–and assess what you can do to fight back.

Interactive Workshop:

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Everyone aspires to have a satisfying professional life -- and enough balance to have a satisfying personal life, too. But so many people fail to achieve that. How can you get this right? In this workshop, Karen Dillon can help your employees understand how the choices they are making can play out over the course of their life and how to course-correct before it's too late.

In The Press

Praise for Karen as a speaker

"She seamlessly tied together the two biggest ways many of us will measure ourselves – personal lives and career success. And she provided tools and tactics for how to think about the impact each has on the other, as well as the false notions many of us chase when we put title, salary and prestige ahead of purpose, respect and growth... I'm relieved we had the barrier of virtualness to keep the crying jags at bay."

ANNE MARIE SQUEO, FORMER CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS AND BRAND OFFICER AT XEROX