Dr. Karen Hardy is the CEO and Chief Risk Officer of Strategic Leadership Advisors LLC. Dr. Hardy is a scholar-practitioner, having built an Enterprise Risk Management solution across 12 bureaus from the ground up at the U.S. Department of Commerce (a $7B cabinet-level agency) impacting 47,000 employees. Her program and operation was cited by GAO as a leading practice across government.

As the Deputy Chief Risk Officer, Dr. Hardy was the first to hold this position at the Department, created it's first Risk Profile and policy, and established the role of 12 bureau Risk Management Officers. Dr. Hardy was recruited by OMB in 2014 to serve as the Senior Advisor for Risk Management, working side-by-side with the U.S. Controller in establishing ERM policy across federal government. She is an original contributing author of the revised July 2016 OMB Circular A-123 and is the original author of ERM language included in OMB Circular A-11.

Dr. Hardy is seen as a visionary and master influencer in the field. She has a long history and commitment to the development and adoption of risk management across industries. She wrote the first research paper on the subject of ERM in government for the IBM Center for the Business of Government in 2010. In 2015-2017, she was selected to serve as a member of the COSO ERM Advisory Board. In 2014, she received the Most Promising New Textbook Award for her book "Enterprise Risk Management: A Guide for Government Professionals. It reached #6 on the Amazon Risk Management Top 100 List.

Dr. Hardy is a founding Board Vice President of the Association of Federal Enterprise Risk Management and received the Risk Management Hall of Fame Award in 2017. She has served as a senior advisor for the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and other numerous agencies, boards, and NGOs over the years and continues to be a sought-after thought leader, speaker, and go-to advisor in the field.

Dr. Hardy recently delivered a branded talk on Embracing Chaos at the Harvard University School of Education. Her Flip This Risk podcast was named as one of the Top 50 Podcasts to listen to in 2021 by Thinkers360. She is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute and the recipient of two Bronze Medal Awards. Dr. Hardy received her Doctorate in Organizational Leadership and Human Resource Development from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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