Karen Walker
Director of Strategy & Change
Karen joined IPSA in August 2020. She has spent 30 years in the Customer Services industry, gaining a wealth of experience spanning financial services, utilities and telecoms at brands such as telephone and online bank First Direct, Centrica and Virgin Media.
She has a background in operational and change leadership, culture change, regulation, credit management and customer service excellence and is renowned for developing purposeful customer-centric cultures to drive advocacy and great customer outcomes, breaking down barriers to service excellence and customer retention.
Yorkshire born and bred, Karen is also a Non-Executive Director at the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where she is translating her keen interest and experience in people and customers into helping the Trust achieve great patient outcomes and service excellence.