About Karen
Grit, dressed in silk.
Karen Perks has had more endings than most meet in a lifetime. And turned every single one into a beginning.
She's not a speaker who studied resilience. She's the woman who lived it, to the edge and back. Heart failure. Divorce. Single parenting. Saving her daughter's life. Building businesses. Every verdict. Every collapsed floor. Every "this is impossible." Then she kept building anyway.
She calls it the Meeka moment, when the old plan dies and you choose: stop, assess, go around. She's had more than she ever wanted. And now she teaches what she learned there: the way around is always already lit.
Two memoirs. One career that zigzagged: financial planner, to business owner, to founder of a health-technology company after medical misdiagnosis nearly stole her daughter. Back to technology. From those years of cost, she built The Meeka Group, identifying gaps, designing strategy, engineering solutions across seven industries.
So here's what your audience gets. Not inspiration. Not borrowed theories. The most lived-experience person in the room. Someone who's already survived the thing they fear, and stands there, proof they will too.
Author · Health equity advocate · AI entrepreneur
