Karen is fully committed to achieving 100% literacy within New Zealand. To this end, Karen is a trustee for the Literacy Education Trust and is the trust's current chairperson. The trust raises funds to enable people of all ages to access a revolutionary literacy remediation programme. This life-changing modern phonics programme has an incredible success rate, enabling previously illiterate or struggling children/adults to capably read, comprehend, write and spell.

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Karen supports the development of local, national and international policy that enables all people to prosper. BPW, an international organisation with consultative status within the UN, works to ensure policy effectively supports the development of women and their families. Karen is the immediate past president of her local branch of BPW.

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The Chamber of Commerce ensures strong networks between commercial organisations locally and nationally.

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 As a Thought Leader in estabishing and providing management solutions, Karen takes part in the Thought Leaders network created by Matt Church. This network provides a platform for original thinkers to explore and share great ideas that are the catalyst for change.

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Linked In is an online business networking site.

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With most adults having over 20 online accounts containing key personal and commercial data - including personal networking sites, online shopping accounts, online bank accounts and website content management accounts - Karen ensures her data and her clients' data is secure by using secure passwords in addition to other protection mechanisms. Karen uses passwords that are memorable and easy to recall yet appear as long strings of random characters that cannot be cracked by hacker software. Karen urges all her clients, friends and family to use secure passwords by using ntrofi.com
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