Principal consultant and President of Karen Bowman & Associates, Karen has been working with employees and companies to improve human and environmental health for more than two decades. Over the years, she has developed a highly effective approach to ensuring workplace health and safety while controlling health-care costs and saving businesses money.

Rather than just focusing on specific regulatory compliance or safety issues, Karen looks at the health and well-being of an entire company and all its employees. Then she uses her expertise in occupational and environmental health nursing, occupational medicine, toxicology, epidemiology, industrial hygiene and public health to design and implement highly customized, cost-effective strategies for her clients.

In addition to working with a wide variety of companies in the Pacific Northwest, Karen is a clinical faculty member in the Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing Program at the University of Washington.

She is also co-founder of Professional Adventures. This cutting-edge organization gives environmental and occupational health professionals the chance to travel, and learn about health and safety issues in developing countries around the world.