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Karen Eddington is a 20-year researcher on The Under Pressure Project and is the author of Understanding Self-Worth. She learned proven methods to combat stress by listening to people like you. Featured on ESPN for helping student athletes develop leadership skills, Karen now works to bring these performance skills to organizations. From rural Utah, Karen shares stress management and resilience tools with a focus on how to be strong under pressure.
“I believe people matter–that life can be better with the right tools!”
Karen will bring your audience together. Book her today! Call (801) 814-8722 or e-mail Karen@KarenEddington.com
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Stress help, community, and developing self-strength are regular conversations in Karen Eddington’s work. With her research background in The Under Pressure Project, she has been invited to speak at conferences across the country.
How it started: Her presentations and research began over 20 years ago with her college thesis where she spoke with hundreds of students to collect data and talk through struggles. At the same time, Karen was a high school cheerleading coach, breaking stereotypes to earn a feature on ESPN being named the top-all around program in the country. After 4 years coaching high school, she set aside her CD player to open a self-worth community center and wrote a series of books including. “Today, I Live…” and in later years “Understanding Self-Worth.” In 2008 she launched her own study on pressure, The Under Pressure Project, gathering over 500 surveys to track solutions. The research continues today as Karen takes note of patterns that bring self-skills and hope. Her high energy keynote and workshop programs center around being, “Strong Under Pressure.”
Karen has worked with associations, education and speaker for student affairs programs, corporate keynoting, and is an advocate for those in the agriculture community.
Karen loves trying to grow basil indoors, calls herself a recovering perfectionist, and she laughs at movie quotes from The Emperor’s New Groove. (“Beware, the groove…”)
