Hi! I am Karen K Li. I am a results-driven leader dedicated to driving strategic change and lasting impact in the financial sector.

With years of experience in risk management, I enabled businesses and improved enterprise infrastructure through designing and building solutions while managing risks with my team.

I am passionate about modernizing financial services through subject matter expertise, system thinking and sound business judgment.

Toronto, Canada

Years leading teams
9
Years in risk management
10
Risk solutions shipped
10+
Years in audit
4
  • Risk Management
  • Credit Risk
  • Counterparty Credit Risk
  • Risk Analytics
  • Capital Markets
  • Governance
  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Modelling
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • People Management
  • Cross-functional
  • Change Delivery
  • Project Management
  • Solution Design
  • Influencing
  • Relationship Building
  • Stakeholder Alignment
  • Agile
  • Strategic Thinking

Perspectives

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Getting AI-Ready Is Not About AI

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  • AI
  • Workplace AI
  • Workplace Automation

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Past Experience

Selected Completed Projects

Realizing an Action Plan

Transformed a high-level action plan into a system-wide solution for risk investigation prioritization to address a governance concern. Shaped the action plan by influencing senior stakeholders with analytics-driven recommendations. The solution went live ahead of the timeline for hundreds of users in multiple groups.

Number of Users
150+
Groups Impacted
5+
Product Class
5+

Building a Full Suite of Risk Processes

Led the delivery of new risk policy and facility monitoring to my team in an enterprise level project on transferring risk processes from first line to second line of defense. Defined the final scope through collaborating with the project and other risk groups. Designed the pipeline for each process onboarded. All migrated processes went live within the timeline.

Number of Systems
6
Pipelines Built or Modified
3
Processes Built
4

Areas of Interest

Generative AI

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Personal Development

Grow as a leader and builder by acquiring new skills, practising all skills and staying inquisitive.

Education

Deconstructing the elements of effective learning to empower this generation and the next of thinkers.