3-Time Emmy Award Winner
Storyteller
Taking on the World, One Story at a Time…
ABOUT KAREN SCHALER
“What Schaler has accomplished… is mind-blowing.” – Forbes
KAREN SCHALER is a three-time Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, producer, bestselling author, journalist, and national TV host.
She has written original romantic comedies and dramas for Netflix, Hallmark, and Lifetime, including the Netflix hit A Christmas Prince, which started the franchise. She has also written eight bestselling novels and a Top 10 Audible Original with a full cast of award-winning actors and musicians.
A renaissance storytelling entrepreneur, Karen is passionate about finding new ways to bring her stories to life. One example, she turned her hit Christmas Camp Hallmark movie and books into real-life trademarked sold-out Christmas Camp experiences for grownups that she hosts at resorts, hotels, and destinations worldwide.
Karen’s bestselling novels and audiobooks are sold around the world. Audible Originals Executive Editor Rose Hilliard says,
“Karen is one of the most masterful seasonal storytellers writing today with a gift for distilling warmth and magic into profoundly uplifting storylines.”
Karen currently has multiple feature, TV, and audio projects in various stages of development. She credits her passionate and prolific writing style to her background as a national TV correspondent, where she has traveled to more than 68 countries profiling power stories about diverse cultures and ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
From being a national White House correspondent to the first journalist in the world ever embedded with an Apache helicopter unit in Afghanistan and ground troops in Bosnia to going undercover as a crime and investigative reporter to creating her own empowering Travel Therapy TV series, Karen draws from her unique life experiences for her storytelling.
With 300+ publishing credits, the first story Karen ever sold was an exclusive for one of the world’s most influential magazines, The New Yorker.
Karen grew up outside of Seattle and in Los Angeles and graduated with honors from California State University Fullerton with a double major in Broadcast Journalism and Sociology.
When she’s not traveling, you can find Karen in New York City, Los Angeles, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
A favorite question Karen was asked while working as a TV correspondent came from an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and author who asked her…
“What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”
Karen answered without hesitation.
“Exactly what you’re doing…”
And Karen says that question has fueled her forward ever since.
You can watch NBC TODAY show for more of Karen’s story in two TV segments WATCH: TODAY & TODAY.
Karen is a sought-after, uplifting and empowering keynote public speaker. If you’d like to book Karen for your next event, please reach out to AAE SPEAKERS.
FACTS & STATS
As a journalist, Karen was the first TV reporter in the world embedded with a combat Apache helicopter unit in Afghanistan in 2007. She also won an Emmy for her executive producing and reporting in a one-hour documentary.
Karen was the first journalist in the world embedded with troops in Bosnia where she won an Emmy for her executive producing and reporting in a half-hour documentary.
Karen has worked as a TV correspondent on CNN, and as a reporter/anchor at ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX affiliates in major TV markets across the country.
Karen is published in The New Yorker, and has more than 500 publishing credits in national magazines, newspapers and online.
Karen is featured as one of 60 women in Marlo Thomas’s book It Ain’t Over . . . Till It’s Over: Reinventing Your Life–and Realizing Your Dreams–Anytime, at Any Age.
Karen grew up near Seattle, Washington and in Los Angeles, California. She graduated, with honors, from California State University Fullerton with a double major in Broadcast Journalism and Sociology.
Karen’s family says she started telling stories even before she could write them down and always knew exactly what she wanted to do, to be a storyteller, and has never wavered.
Karen’s favorite quote that she lives by: “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”
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