Karen Kun is the Founder and President of Waterlution. As a woman, mother, entrepreneur, risk-taker, mentor and Waterlution’s leader, she thrives sharing her global experience, extensive network, creativity and leadership skills with others across the water sector. Developing programming to build diverse skills and networks for water and climate leaders with the necessary tools to approach complex issues through innovation is a cornerstone of Waterlution’s ongoing work to drive positive change. Karen credits her time two decades ago living and working with Indigenous communities in Latin America as the inspiration behind applying water as a metaphor for everything essential in caring for and preserving ourselves and our planet. Eighteen years later, Karen continues to incorporate the practice of storytelling, building diverse partnerships, peer-to-peer learning and support networks, and empathy as fundamental tools in creating meaningful water dialogue, solving problems and creating new innovative solutions. At this stage of her career, she is most proud of the Waterlution team, based across Turtle Island, today known as Canada, as well as Brazil, Lebanon and Mozambique, and with long-time partnerships across Europe, India, Mexico, Australia and the USA. She has seen the water landscape change dramatically from a male dominant space where she was the only woman on conference panels to full female gatherings, to substantially more inclusion of Indigenous water stewards and traditional knowledge and growing diversity across the water and climate sectors. Along with her water background, she is a skilled business leader who from 2005-2012 was publisher of Corporate Knights magazine.