Karen Anne’s a founding member of RES’ Global Gender Affinity Network, which promotes gender equality in RES across 11 countries and which was recently awarded the Culture Change Award at the Scottish Renewables Young Professionals Green Energy Awards. In addition, she’s the Leader of the Career Progression workstream that aims to eliminate barriers to progression that different genders face. Karen Anne’s currently leading a review of Gender Pay Gap Reporting (GPGR) to identify opportunities for improving RES’ GPGR. She’s also been mentoring, and advised on changes to the internal communications campaign that resulted in a 75% increase in female mentors this year and improved the gender diversity in RES’ internal mentoring program. Since 2022, Karen Anne’s been working on an internal sponsorship program that addresses the under-sponsorship of women and non-binary people, alongside a return to work program which will support people of all genders to return to work after an extended career break.
