Karen Hodge Cunningham

Karen Hodge-Cunningham is an accomplished Senior Executive with over twenty (20+) years of growth and performance, who leads with passion and is driven by purpose and integrity. MS. Hodge Cunningham has a proven track record of building and leading teams to high performance, built on a values-first approach. Her record demonstrates that she believes in and stands for results and excellence through the investment and development of people and relationships. She has been leading and coaching C-suite leaders across industries such as financial services, federated associations, military, scientific and research agencies, municipal, federal government agencies and crown corporations navigate their contemporary organizations through today’s turbulent environment, so they can modernize, stay relevant and achieve both their cultural and business imperatives. Ms. Hodge Cunningham’s approach is firmly rooted in the knowledge and experience that an organization that genuinely lives its values and embraces the talents of its people while driving for excellence, must simultaneously remain nimble to keeping pace with the every-changing environment. An organization must know that knows its purpose, and have it embedded in its fabric in order to succeed. As an experienced Senior Leader, C-suite Advisor and Strategic Culture and Change practitioner, she works in a collaborative fashion leveraging the elements of various change and proven business methodologies from across the spectrum to support the development of a change ready environment, leadership coaching, engagement of stakeholder adoption, organizational behavior and its impact on culture and success, learning and development, and governance. As a founding member of the CGI global think tank for Strategic Culture and Change, and CIO advisory, she has worked to strengthen the knowledge, awareness and increased the understanding of the critical significance of the people defendant nature of all success regardless of industry or project. Through collaboration with international teammates, she has authored a number of articles, blogs, and delivered numerous presentations to mobilize and inform on the necessity of engaging in a strategic culture and change strategy both at an organizational level down through individual initiatives. Ms. Hodge Cunningham is working to demonstrate that change is the support structure in the evolution of new and emerging technologies such as AI, Cyber security and machine learning. Ms. Hodge Cunningham has received National Award of Service Excellence in 2019 for her work done with Canada’s largest governmental agency “Employment Services Development Canada” in their transformation and modernization journey. She has been a recipient of CGI’s IMPACT aware for her work to increase awareness and develop action direction and action for Diversity in the workplace for the National Capital Region. She has received Canadian Chief of Defense staff’s coin in 2016 for her work and mobilization of community support for the National Capital Region Military Family Resource Centre. Was one of the first nominated women in CGI’s “Women of Impact Award in 2021”. These awards are just an example of the impact that Ms. Hodge Cunningham has had on the people and organizations she has had the privilege to work with. She is a sought-after author, and speaker delivering numerous key notes, and participated in various international podcasts, and developed various leadership, mentorship and sales enablement curriculum centered around fundamentals of leadership and its direct impact on culture and organizational success.

Publications

Mastering the Chaos: Data-Driven and AI-Based Change Management as an Answer to Challenges in Unprecedented Times
Mastering the Chaos: Data-Driven and AI-Based Change Management as an Answer to Challenges in Unprecedented Times
Jens M. Sorg, Karen Hodge Cunningham, Assia Stoyanova. © 2023. 18 pages.
You know that change endeavors are highly complex. You know that decision-making can be extremely challenging. Today, change capacities are more important than ever. This holds...