A Better Perspective™
Founder's Bio
Donna Karlin CEC, founder of A Better Perspective™ has pioneered the specialized practice of Shadow Coaching™ with over 130 senior organizational leaders in the public and private sectors and is committed to growing individual and collaborative leadership capacity.
By entering the client’s environment, she works with them in translating awareness into practice, essentially fostering the emergence of the Shadow Coach™ in the clients themselves. Donna uses an adaptable and comprehensive approach in working with her clients. She uses a unique structure that enables her to understand individuals and their worlds sufficiently to design coaching that shifts their developmental level. Her coaching attends to the individual, social, relational and environmental aspects of her client's ‘world’. It is an integral approach that results in the client developing a deeper, more comprehensive sense of themselves and their place in their organization and the world as a whole. Through her unique approach, Donna works with clients to achieve individual and organizational excellence.
Principal of A Better Perspective™, Ms. Karlin has worked for over 23 years as a coach and trainer with clients in Canada, the US and abroad in the business/corporate sector, political Federal Ministries, government departments and agencies and the medical community.
Donna is an author, lectures internationally, is a key player in 6 international think tanks and research and development teams, including the Microsoft™ Unified Collaboration Group ‘Vision Team’; a small team of independent visionaries / experts who provide valuable, contextual insight into technology, business and workplace issues and trends. In response to widely expressed interest to her highly successful and innovative approach to coaching, she established the School of Shadow Coaching™ to enable others to learn the practice.
She is a member of numerous professional organizations including the International Coach Federation, Canadian Society for Training and Development, is a founding member of CoachVille, founding member of the International Association of Coaching (IAC), a member of Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, and a member of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations.
Donna’s work has been written up in Fast Company Magazine, The National Post (Financial Post), The Globe and Mail, The New York Times Business Section, The Boston Globe as well as in numerous online articles including BusinessListening.com, The Training Report, and SelfGrowth.com. She has written two eBooks, ‘The Power to Decide: An Executive’s Guide to Conquering a Chaotic Day’ and ‘Climbing Out of the Meeting Pit: Smart Meetings for Smart Leaders’ and has recently co-authored the best selling book ‘101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life’. Her blog Perspectives™ is subscribed to by readers from 111 countries and territories. As well, Donna is a chosen key contributor to the new weblog execuBooks Blog which presents “current thinking by the best minds in business” around the world, writes a weekly column for Fast Company Experts called “Jumping Into the Deep End of Leadership” , co-writes a blog with her Transformational Girlfriends and is a new columnist for Canadian Government Executive Magazine.
She has a proven track record in developing leadership and managing change.
Memberships, Affiliations, and Research & Development
Participant/ key player in Microsoft™ Real Time Collaboration ‘Vision Team’; a small team of independent visionaries / experts who provide valuable, contextual insight into technology, business and workplace issues and trends.- 2006
Member of Association for Coaching Excellence - 2006
Board Member of International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations’ (ICCO)
Purpose is to maximize the success and efficacy of coaching solutions in organizations, at a global level. This encompasses: the ongoing expansion of knowledge about how and why coaching produces positive results; the continuous creation of coaching resources – theoretical and practical – and sharing of best practices. Critical to this endeavor is the integration of all stakeholders in dialogue, research and debate, to contribute to the growing success of coaching solutions in organizations. This consortium is concerned with the human service endeavor known as coaching within an organizational context with executive coaching as its core application.
Key player in Association for Coaching Excellence Research and Development team – 2006
Member of International Mentoring Network Organization
Key player in Coaching Innovation – Research and Development Team 2005 to present
Participant in the 2004 and 2005 International Coach Federation Coaching Research Symposiums, leading edge arena for strategy in the coaching field.
Member of International Journal for Coaching in Organizations (consortium to promote excellence in organizational executive coaching) – 2004 to present
Founder and Principal of the School of Shadow Coaching™ - 2004
Member Organization Development Network of Ottawa-Outaouais – 2004 to present
Founder of Mindsful™, International Research and Development Team of Coaches - 2003
Key player in CoachVille Research and Development group - 2001 to present
Key player in Thomas Leonard Research and Development team 2001 - 2003
Founding member of CoachVille - the largest coaching organization in the world with 67,201 members in 78 countries - 2001 to present
Founding member of International Association of Coaching - 2003 to present
Key player in International Association of Coaching Research and Development team 2003 to present
Member of International Coach Federation
Member of Canadian Society for Training and Development
Member of Professional Coaches and Mentors Association
Adjunct Faculty for Graduate School of Coaching - 2002 to 2003
Adjunct Faculty for Graduate School of Corporate Coaching - 2002 to 2003
Key player in CVI (CoachVille Institute) think tank for coaches - 2002 to 2003
Experience
Executive Shadow Coaching & Training
Executive Coach to high level executives in following private sector organizations and non-federal government departments:
Independent Coaching Consultant and Associate with Steppingstones Partnership
Independent Coach to long term care patients International Microsurgical Center
Education and Executive Development
Advanced Coach Training
Impact of Coaching in Organizations: Research Implications for Creating Cultures of Coaching Within Organizations
Similarities / Difference in Organizational Coaching Programs Between the U.S. Government and Fortune 500 Companies
Research 201: Critical Issues in Conducting Research Projects, Writing Research Papers and Integrating Research into Practice
21st Century Leadership - Coach the Leader, Change the World
Communicating In a Changing World; Word Play for Visionaries
Strengths Based Coaching - Shifting Clients to a Vision of Possibilities
Narrative Coaching: Working With Clients' Own Stories for Transformational Results
Dialogue and Research in the Development of Coaching as a Profession
Evidence-based Practice: A Potential Approach for Effective Coaching
Ideological Foundations of the Adaptive Coaching Model: a research-based approach to improving coaching results
Leading With Insight: Transforming Leaders and Delivering ROI
How Ontological Coaching Can Support Effective Leadership
Five Key Coaching Strategies for Developing Integrated Leaders
Coaching Executives to Close the Satisfaction Gap
Leveraging Individual and Executive Team, Coaching for Impact
There is More to What Your Client Tells You Than You Think: How Deeper Answers to Client Questions Surface
Bringing Mindfulness to Coaching: Practices for Sensing and Shifting Subtle Habits
20/20 Vision for Coaching Through the Scientist-Practitioner Model
Assessing Coaching Effectiveness
Researching Coaching Outcome: Impact of Coaching Following a Leadership Development Program
Evolutionary Coaching: Coaching Mega Human Beings
Executive Coaching and The Body
Taking it Deeper: The “Art and Science of Credible Executive Coaching
Political Leadership Coaching
Professional School of Psychology & Canadian Institute for Research and Education in Human Systems
Post-graduate Organizational Psychology with Focus in Executive Coaching
“Advanced level training and education for those accomplished human service professionals who work with men and women in organizations faced with the daunting task of making decisions (the “executive” function of leadership) within a postmodern context of complexity, unpredictability and turbulence.”
Appreciating the context within which another person or organization is operating
Delving into the core dynamics of human behavioural and emotional patterns and how they translate to situational coaching
Acknowledging the distinctive, unacknowledged impact of individuals
Recognising and giving feedback on distinctive strengths and competencies
Recognizing and uncovering distinctive strengths and competencies
Recognising the value of cooperation
Advocacy inviting inquiry
Coaching for the enhancement of executive performance
Understand and value another point of view
Recognize contributions of others
Craft a vision or compelling image of the future
Construct provocative propositions.
Graduate School of Coaching
Advanced Coaching Proficiencies – Third level advanced Coach training
Designing Failsafe Structures for Performance
Advanced Coaching Models
Advanced Coaching Theory
The 12 Core Dynamics of Common Problems
Crafting a Unique Proficiency-Set to Offer To Your Ideal Market
The Impact of Technology on Human Evolution
Designing a Customized Leadership Program To Fit For Your Target Market
The 10 Most-In-Demand Corporate Coaching Processes
How Developing Coaching Theory is Changing the Face of Coaching
Upgrading Your Sources of Energy
Understanding the 10 Primary Challenges that Executives Face, and How to Coach Them Well in All 10 Areas
The Modern Leadership Program: The 15 Proficiencies of Advanced Leadership
Visionary Thinker Program: Looking, and Acting, 10 Years Forward.
Universal Trends: The 10 Trends That Are Shaping Our World, and How To Change Your Thinking to Make the Most of Them
Coaching the Business Owner who is "The Problem"
Creating a Coaching Culture in an Organization
Coaching Programs for Organizations
Coaching Principles
Personal Environments
Coach Proficiencies
Coach Clarifiers
Fundamental Coaching Proficiencies
Publications, Interviews and Articles
Weekly contributor to Fast Company Magazine Weblog: Fast Company Experts called 'Jumping Into the Deep End of Leadership, December 2006 to present
Article in the Globe and Mail on "How To Handle Everything From Overflowing E-mail to Meeting Overload" August, 2006
Article/Interview in the New York Times 'Coaches and Business Travelers' June 6, 2006
Key contributor to "ExecuBooks Blog; Leading Thinking by Thought Leaders", June 2006 to present
Co-author of '101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life - May 2006
Climbing Out of the Meeting Pit - 2005
'Coach Spotlight on Donna Karlin' IAC Voice: "Revealing People to Themselves" February 15, 2005
Fast Company Fast 50 2005 - rated 9 out of 10 in most popular entries by Fast Company readers
The Power to Decide: An Executive’s Guide to Conquering a Chaotic Day – 2004
Article on businessListening.com - Don't Hate Meetings, Make Them More Effective - 2004
Weblog ‘Perspectives’: Insights of an Executive Shadow Coach - May 2003 to present (regular subscribers from 108 countries and territories)
Interview with the trainingreport.ca on stress management – 2003
Published interview on businessListening.com on Shadow Coaching – 2003
Published Articles on selfgrowth.com on leadership, trust, life potential, life balance - 1999 to present
Article in Fast Company Magazine on Leadership - October 1999
