Karen L. Kilgo
President/CEO of Flat Rock Homes, Care Center, and Community Services
Karen Kilgo has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Flat Rock Homes, Care Center and Community Services since June 1, 2016.
Karen has 31 years of executive management experience working in mission-driven, nonprofit ministries in Atlanta, Georgia and in northern Ohio. Before coming to Flat Rock, she previously served as Chief Human Capital Officer at Atlanta Mission, which provides emergency and temporary shelter, recovery programming, job attainment services and transitional housing for more than 1,000 men, women and children daily.
Karen has managed multi-million-dollar budgets and led large staffs of employees and volunteers. She was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Karen Kilgo and Associates, a business and consulting management firm, and spent 13 years leading Christian City, a non-profit ministry in Union City, Georgia that includes group homes, foster care programs and transitional living for children, as well as behavioral/mental health counseling, skilled nursing and assisted/senior living communities.
While in Georgia, Karen was active in the lay leadership of McDonough First United Methodist Church, where she taught adult Sunday school and served on various boards and committees. She was active in United Women in Faith at both the church, district and conference level. She is a member of Norwalk First United Methodist Church in the East Ohio Conference, Norwalk’s United Women in Faith group, and serves on the Church Council and Finance Committee.
Certified by the HR Certification Institute as a Senior Professional in Human Resources, Karen has been recognized by the Society for Human Resource Management as a Senior Certified Professional. She earned a Bachelor of the Arts degree in Sociology from Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia and a Master of Science degree in Education/Human Resources Development from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Karen serves on the Board of Directors for the Values and Faith Alliance, an association of Ohio faith and values-based agency providers that serve children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She serves as a member of the Board of Mission, a member of the Health and Wellbeing Committee, and as the leader of the DisAbilities Awareness Team for the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. She also is a member of the Ohio Disability and Ministry Collaborative. She is a Certified Lay Servant Minister in the West Plains District of the East Ohio Conference. She has previously served as a delegate to the East Ohio Annual Conference from 2018-2024. Karen is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Methodist Ministries Network from 2019 to 2024 and served as Secretary on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors from 2021 to 2024.