Karen Porzio was born and raised in Milford, Massachusetts. She is married to Russ, her love of 42 years. She has 4 children, 2 grandchildren and has had many pets, (8 dogs, 2 birds, tree frogs, and newts). Karen recently retired from a Fortune 500 corporation and held many leadership positions over her 44-year career. She has travelled extensively for her career as a global leader and has visited 21 of the 50 states in the US, and 27 countries in 5 of the 7 continents.

In her career, she held leadership roles in operations, procurement, quality, compliance, planning, customer service, and digital transformation. Karen’s most important role was mentoring and guiding her teams to succeed. Her success in leadership was recognized by the corporation she worked for leading to 2 leadership excellence awards.