Look and Listen

Biography

Karen Gridley is the excuse removal expert™, uniquely qualified to talk about removing excuses to achieve success because she herself is a Recovering Excuse Maker™. For years she was unhappy in her career, the world seemed “out to get her” and in a number of areas she felt unfulfilled in her life. Then came the rude awakening . . . face to face with the realization she was the common factor in all her experiences, hardships and disappointments. This led Karen to adopt the philosophy: If you want to achieve things you've never achieved, you have to become someone you’ve never been and take action you’ve never taken. As a result, Karen transformed her unfulfilled life with a propensity to excuses, complaining and blaming to a purposeful life with a commitment to spirituality, gratitude and service. Karen now dedicates her life to encouraging, enlightening and enriching people’s lives to dream, believe and achieve. She works with people to get out of their own way to live the life they desire – and Deserve! Karen helps people examine the invisible, make necessary internal changes and create aspired external results to improve productivity, performance and profits. She is an inspiring, dynamic and thought-provoking speaker, life coach and author. Her personable and humorous approach combined with the natural ability to get people to honestly face the person in the mirror makes Karen one-of-a-kind in her field. She touches people’s hearts as she provides guiding principles to explore endless possibilities. She works with companies, associations and individuals that want to remove excuses, improve performance, achieve goals, and increase the bottom line. Karen is the creator of The Twelve Steps of an Excuse Maker, The Twelve Steps of a Recovering Excuse Maker and The Recovering Excuse Maker Prayer. Her book, Embrace Your Rights, is highly recommended by Jack Canfield (co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul® series and co-author of The Success Principles™). Karen’s audio CD, Lose Your Excuses, Gain a Life and DVD, Empower Yourself have been instrumental in helping many achieve their sought after success. She is also the co-author of Live Every Day Motivated, Successful, and Happy. Karen’s background includes intense study with leading experts in the field of human potential. She also has a BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry and twenty years experience as a scientist. Originally from upstate New York, she now lives in Arizona and is an active member of NSA (National Speakers Association) and NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners).

Inspiration

Removing Excuses is about broadening your perspective, tapping into the power within and taking control of your outcomes. Taking control of your outcomes doesn’t eliminate problems. Taking control of your outcomes allows you to face adversity as a bump in the road and succeed anyway.