CREATOR • NARRATOR OF REMEMBERING
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Speaking That Creates Lasting Impact
Karen Abbott Trimuel creates keynotes, workshops, and conversations that invite audiences to pause, think differently, and reconnect with what they already know.
Through storytelling, reflection, lived experience, and thoughtful conversation, Karen creates room for people not simply to hear a message, but to recognize something within themselves.
FEATURED IN THE LANSING JOURNAL
Where the Conversation Can Happen
Karen's speaking work is designed for rooms where reflection, conversation, connection, and meaningful perspective matter.
Libraries • Corporations • Administrative Professionals • Leadership Teams
Women's Organizations • Colleges & Universities • Nonprofits
Community Organizations • Conferences • Professional Organizations • Chambers of Commerce
Signature Keynotes
Goal Setting for Real Life
What if the goal isn't to chase harder, but to get clearer about what actually belongs to you?
Goal Setting for Real Life invites audiences to examine the expectations, comparisons, timelines, and definitions of success that often shape the goals we pursue.
Through reflection, conversation, and practical exercises, Karen helps participants move beyond pressure and reconnect with what fits their lives, values, and inner knowing.
The goal isn't simply achievement. It's alignment.
Beyond Balance
Finding Alignment in Work and Life
What if work and life were never meant to be balanced against each other?
Beyond Balance challenges the traditional idea of work/life balance and invites audiences to consider a different possibility: life is the whole, and work is one part of it.
Through reflection, lived experience, and practical conversation, Karen explores how boundaries, awareness, and intentional choices can help us recognize when one part of life has begun consuming too much of the whole.
Balance isn't about giving everything equal time. It's about recognizing what needs your attention and choosing accordingly.
Executive Leadership Partnerships
What changes when administrative professionals are recognized not simply as support, but as strategic partners in leadership?
Drawing from decades of experience working alongside senior executives, Karen explores the often underestimated relationship between executive leadership and the administrative professionals who help make leadership possible.
This conversation examines communication, trust, mutual respect, decision-making, and the difference between simply working together and building a partnership that strengthens the entire organization.
Strong executive leadership is rarely a solo act.
Returned. Rooted. Rising.
What becomes possible when you stop searching for yourself and recognize that you were there all along?
Returned. Rooted. Rising. is a reflective keynote about identity, inner knowing, and what can happen when we are still enough to recognize ourselves while examining the expectations, roles, and definitions we have learned to carry.
Through story, reflection, and lived experience, Karen invites audiences to examine what belongs to them, what they have accepted because it was familiar, and what they may already know but have stopped hearing.
This isn't a conversation about becoming someone new.
It is an invitation to remember who has been there all along.
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Karen creates the experience, delivers the message, engages the room, and connects with the people.
Women Are Rising
The Gathering Continues
Meeting Women Where They Are
Women Are Rising is one expression of Karen's work beyond the stage. A gathering she created to bring women together through conversation, creativity, reflection, connection, and shared experiences.
Each gathering is intentionally different because meeting women where they are means recognizing that everyone does not enter the room from the same place.