Karen Dillon
New York Times best-selling author,
3X Clayton Christensen co-author and keynote speaker
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.
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.
What is microstress and how does it affect you?
How do you know if you have microstress? Author Karen Dillon explains in this On Leadership podcast.
How Will You Measure Your Life? Workshop
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.