Dr. Karen Hills Pruden

Recently nominated for the 2022 Change Maker Award by the Real Money Talk Summit, Dr. Karen Hills Pruden, is an award-winning author, global keynote speaker, community leader, entrepreneur and female leadership strategist. With a background in operations and human resource leadership, her career spans two decades and several industries including education, museums, home improvement, non-profit, and tax preparation. Dr. Pruden worked her way up from an entry-level position to a seat at the table in the C-Suite. Her life work is a full commitment to help women influence and impact their way into senior leadership. Dr. Pruden partners with female professionals who feel stuck, stagnant, unhappy, unaligned, overworked, and overwhelmed to acquire more influence, more impact, success and fulfillment in their career. Dr. Pruden transformed her life from a teenage bride to a Global Powerhouse C-Suite Executive.  

She now motivates thousands of female professionals to pursue career goals that they once thought were impossible. Her blueprint is, ‘No Excuses, Make It Happen!’  Dr. Pruden influences female leaders through keynote speaking, coaching, workshops, and writing leadership /inspirational books, resulting in 21 #1 Amazon Bestselling Books. Dr. Pruden works as a Chief Human Resource Officer for Norfolk State University.  She is the Founder of the Sister Leaders, LLC.   Dr. Pruden has been interviewed on the Kim Jacobs Show, Believe in Your Dreams Television, Roland Martin Unfiltered, ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates.  She has been a featured speaker at VASHRM, Society for Diversity, Black Wall Street, Level-Up Summit, Power-Up Summit, Success Women’s Conference, SpeakerCon, Virginia Commonwealth University, Norfolk State University, Thomas Nelson Community College, Black CEO, Christopher Newport University, Global Fluency, EmpoweringHER, NAACP, You Are Enough Conference, Sister Leaders Conference, Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, and Black BRAND. Dr. Pruden has graced the same conference stages as Les Brown, Dr. Cheryl Wood, Shawn Fair, Lisa Nichols, Gloria Mayfield Banks, Dr. George Fraser, Nikki Woods, Dr. Jodi Watley and Keri Murphy.