Karen McDonald Gayle is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) a regional umbrella environmental fund that uses a flexible structure to facilitate innovative solutions and consolidate regional conservation impacts. Karen is a Jamaican national with over 25 years of experience in civil society participation, public sector policy development, and project design, Karen is a regional Conservation Trust Fund (CTF) management expert. She has served on multiple national boards, is a founding member of the Jamaica Institute of Environmental Professionals, and former CEO of Jamaica’s largest environmental grant-making institution – the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) working regionally with the United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations Environment Program. Karen McDonald Gayle is sharing her extraordinary journey with us on “Getting to the Top!” a space dedicated to showcasing the career paths of transformational leaders in the hope that we can either inspire others on their leadership journey to shoot for bigger and more transformational change or to help those potential leaders to chase C-level or managerial positions, aiming to close the gap in the most needed diversity at the top of all of our organizations in search of a better world.