Midwife, Plantswoman, Organic and Natural Sales Expert

Prompted by health concerns in her family, Karen Farrell began studying natural foods and medicines at age 12. In her formative years, she studied traditional herbalism with Gladys Hadju and spent six years studying traditional midwifery and women’s health— including foreign aid midwifery journeys to Indonesia and Haiti—both academically and in practice.

Karen has worked the last 20 years in the natural products Industry, starting as a working member in a co-op and working in an independent health food store as well as Whole Foods Market. She has spent the last 14 years in leadership in the sales and brokerage community.

Karen was the owner and force behind Topline Marketing, a highly successful regional sales and marketing brokerage in the natural products industry that she sold in 2012 to Presence Marketing. the most respected independent national brokerage in the United States.

Karen is now the national director of brand management for nutrition and body care at Presence Marketing, where she oversees a team and the go-to-market strategies for brands including Burt’s Bees, Dr. Bronner’s, Andalou Naturals, Kiss My Face, Guayaki and Navitas Naturals and many more.

Karen lives with her husband and two sons on 40 acres in the Maine woods, which she’s repopulating with endangered native medicinal plants, and is continuing her herbal studies at David Winston’s Center for Herbal Studies.

See “Midwife & CEO Karen Farrell Langevin on Becoming an Eco-Mom” on Huffington Post GREEN