About Us
Abney Hall is a niche consultancy and publisher specializing in business transformation and career development. Founder and CEO, Karen Adamedes, draws on her extensive knowledge, skills, network, and experience to help organizations and individuals realize their potential and navigate change.
Practical, Implementable Real Impact.
Whether it’s working directly with organizations or through books, blogs or speaking, CEO and Founder, Karen Adamedes provides thought provoking, considered and practical guidance.
Meet Karen
Career Tipster, Karen Adamedes, brings a passion for transformation to both the organisations she advises and the individuals she supports in their careers.
As a strategic business adviser, author, blogger, and speaker, she blends practical insight with a genuine commitment to helping people and workplaces succeed.
Her background spans senior executive roles and consulting work across a wide range of industries—from IT and Telecommunications to Health, Digital Media, and the not‑for‑profit sector. This breadth of experience shapes her clear, accessible approach to demystifying how organisations function and how people can navigate their careers with confidence.
Karen’s first book, Hot Tips for Career Chicks: Unlocking the CODE to Success, was a finalist in both the USA Book News Best Books Awards and the Global Ebook Awards. Her career insights have been featured in major magazines, newspapers, and international publications, and her long‑running blog, Career Tips to Go, is recognized as one of the Top 100 Career Blogs by Feedspot and ThriveYard.
How to Be a Hybrid Hero is Karen’s third career‑focused book, inspired by the dramatic shifts in how we work and by her own experience adapting to a hybrid world. Her fascination with solving complex puzzles—such as what makes hybrid working successful—can be traced back to the Agatha Christie novels she read with her father as a child, a love that evolved into a lifelong curiosity about how things work in organisations and in people’s careers.
At the heart of Karen’s work is a simple goal: to ensure that anyone seeking to improve, enjoy, or regain control of their career has access to practical, encouraging, and actionable guidance. Her writing is designed to offer exactly that—ideas, tools, and inspiration to help people thrive in a changing world of work.
Karen lives in Australia, loves coffee, walks at the beach, music, and time with family and friends. She admits to having too many streaming services.
