Training & Instructional Design
Karen has a background in corporate training, from the design and development of materials and documentation to classroom and onsite delivery. She worked as a corporate trainer for a software development company for seven years where she designed and developed training programs, materials, and documentation for several different products.

Karen has worked with groups of all sizes, from large groups of 50+ to individualized instruction, and has designed instruction for the novice users as well as the advanced technical pros. Her educational background in instructional design gives her a solid, structured approach to training while her personality helps to making learning fun.

Graphic Design
Karen was thrown into graphic design while developing training materials and programs for software users. Today, she has expertise in Adobe Photoshop, PageMaker, InDesign, FrameMaker, and Illustrator. She has honed her skills working to develop client brochures, website graphics and navigation structures and other  promotional pieces. She has also developed and produced camera-ready copy for several textbooks. Karen has spent much time optimizing graphics for the web and she is currently exploring the wonders of digital camera photography.

Technology and Website Development
Karen is the “techno troublemaker” of the Learnovation LLC team, always looking for new ways to integrate technology into the plan. Karen has turned her skills to web design and development and has created award winning websites. She has worked extensively with Front Page and Dreamweaver to develop sites that are both functional and appealing. She also works with clients to help them develop the skills to support their websites at the levels they choose, whether it’s updating a graphic themselves or changing text. She works with clients to assess their needs and help them design the site, then she takes their ideas and turns them into a finished site.

Career Design
Karen is the "how to" specialist of the career portfolio. Over the past ten years, Karen has spent time refining the mechanics of the career portfolio.  The three hour emergency instructions were developed from field research conducted by Learnovation, LLC.

Karen has conducted workshops on the career portfolio process across the country for educational groups, students and hospitality industry recruiters. Karen brings the technology aspect to the career skill sets of the career planning process. Her innovations have created the electronic portfolio and the computer layout component of the career portfolio process.

Publishing & Speaking
Karen is the co-author of Creating your Career Portfolio – At a Glance Guides , The Family Guide to the American Workplace and The Immigrant's Guide to the American Workplace. She has also written several technology articles for the student career magazine Hosteur. She has become proficient in working with printers and publishing houses while developing camera-ready copy for several textbooks. She has given many presentations on the Career Portfolio concept, and has presented at several national conferences and workshops.

Education
Karen has a Master's degree in Instructional Computing from Purdue University where she specialized in instructional design and computer-assisted instruction. Karen has a bachelor’s degree in Office Administration, with emphasis on Management Information Systems, from Illinois State University.

Personal
As lifelong friends, Karen is a big part of the Williams’ household, being a pitch-in mom to Anna’s boys. (No, we're not sisters, though we get asked that question often!) When she’s not hanging out there, she is an avid reader, enjoys playing handbells, and using her creative talents with pottery and warm glass.