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Karen Matthews has over 22 years experience in national and international retailing, franchising and strategic brand management. Karen launched Australia’s first skincare model, Ella Baché, where she spent 10 years as CEO after resigning in 2009 when she started Inside-Out Leadership.

Karen is recognised in the business community as an innovative leader with strong operational and strategic skills and operates as she calls it by an intuitive style of “inside out” leadership. A high energy leader, she walks the talk, fights to the death for what she believes in and has a personal mantra to “inspire people to be the best that they can be.” She’s an innovative leader who operates by an intuitive style of “inside out” leadership.

Her personal mantra is to “inspire people to be the best that they can be.”

 

Listen to this herBusiness interview with Karen Matthews to learn:

  • How to lead from the inside-out and the qualities of good leaders
  • Simple strategies for strategic planning
  • Small Business Marketing

The interview provides practical tips and insights for businesswomen.

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Hi there. I’m Suzi Dafnis, CEO at HerBusiness. My BIG passion is helping women business owners to grow and scale their business, so that they can create their ideal lifestyle and make a difference in the world. Every day I am inspired by the more than 30,000 amazing women (and...

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Karen Matthews is a Business Reinvention expert with over 25yrs experience leading business turnaround, change and growth for some well-known businesses including Ella Bache, Freedom and Myer and Karen passionately believes that businesses who do not continue to reinvent themselves to grow will lose relevance, stagnate and quickly go backwards....

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