Karen Jarmoc

Senior Sustainability Consultant

National ESG Council

Karen M. Jarmoc is the former Chief Sustainability Director at The Allstate Corporation and is currently a Senior Sustainability Consultant with the National ESG Council. At Allstate, she helped lead the company’s strategic sustainability initiatives to advance its competitive advantage, inform risk and return management and corporate strategy, engage stakeholders, and innovate new value creation. She oversaw Allstate’s sustainability reporting, including developing Allstate’s overarching strategic narrative for sustainability and enhanced data collection.

In 2023, Karen was named to ESG 50 by Constellation Research as one of its most influential executives nationally working to advance sustainability in the corporate sector.

Prior to Allstate, Karen served as the Assistant Vice President, Corporate Sustainability at The Hartford where she was a leader, playing a role to protect and strengthen the company’s reputation by ensuring it met increasing expectations for transparency through disclosure of strong performance with respect to corporate sustainability and resilience. Karen spent nearly ten years as the Chief Executive Officer for the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence where she was chiefly responsible for supporting systems that serve victims of intimate partner violence on multiple platforms and advanced public policy and projects in related areas (e.g. criminal justice, housing, children, prevention, health, poverty, equity, and risk assessment). She was also a two-term lawmaker in the Connecticut House of Representatives where she spearheaded policies and programs to benefit constituents with a focus on health, public safety, economic development, and children.

Over her 30+ year career, Karen has been recognized as an innovative and inclusive policy maker and leader. She has served as a member of the Executive Forum for the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and serves on the board of Advanced Behavioral Health and Grace Academy in Connecticut. She is also Co-Chair of Connecticut’s Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity. In 2019, she was recognized among “30 Women of Distinction” in Hartford Magazine and the previous year served on Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s Transition Steering Committee.

Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications/Political Science from Simmons University and a Master of Public Policy degree from Trinity College.