Introducing Karen
I’m Karen O’Donnell, I’m an experienced in-house Company Secretary, Associate of the Chartered Governance Institute, and recent recipient of the DMJ Governance Hot 100 award in the Governance Trailblazer category. I joined EQ Advisory in May this year as Governance & ESG Knowledge Manager, coordinating research and learning streams from across the Advisory business. I’m still very much finding my feet but have been fortunate to have started working on the teams Bite Size Knowledge Sessions, developing the Training Hub, the Knowledge Matrix and looking at areas where research has overlapped – to ensure we can view this in a wider context and be more efficient in what we do.
What’s your biggest EQ Achievement to date, 2 months into the role!?
I’m excited about some of the more interactive elements of the Training Hub, introducing the video Quick Questions seems to have been well received and I’m really hoping to get lots of people to join me on some video question and answer sessions to talk about our work and how we can learn from each other about those things that we already do so well.
What are you looking forward to in the future at EQ?
Definitely becoming more involved in sharing the knowledge that we have already built, continuing to develop that and really integrate this across EQ Advisory and to our clients, being truly collaborative in establishing this new role.