Donna Karlin, CEC

Current

President and member of the Board at International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO)
Advisor at INSPIRIT, Sustainable Design and Promotion Group
Executive Coach at Karlin Sloan & Company

CAM Team member at Conversation Among Masters
Member of the Board of Advisors at Foundation for Leadership Coaching
Member of the Board of Directors at The Coach Initiative
FAST COMPANY Leadership Expert at FAST COMPANY
Founder and Principal at School of Shadow Coaching (SOSC)
Founder and Principal at Mindsful
Executive Coach at Canadian International Development Agency
President at A Better Perspective ™

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Past

Guest lecturer / Instructor at OISE, University of Toronto /Adler International Learning
Guest lecturer / Instructor at Adler School of Professional Coaching South West
Executive Coach / Advisor at Microsoft UCG Vision Team

Member of the Board of Governors at International Association of Coaching (IAC)
Adjunct Teacher at CoachVille: Graduate School of Coaching
Associate at Steppingstones Partnership

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Education

Graduate School of Coaching
McGill University
Professional School of Psychology

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

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Donna Karlin, CEC’s Summary

Donna Karlin, C.E.C. is founder and principal of A Better Perspective™, Business, Executive and Political Leadership Coaching, and has pioneered the specialized practice of Shadow Coaching™ with global political, government, business and senior organizational leaders.

By entering the client’s environment, Donna uses a unique structure that enables her to understand individuals and their worlds sufficiently to design coaching that shifts their developmental level and attends to the individual, social, relational and environmental aspects of her client's ‘world’.
- 25 years of Coaching experience
- Pioneer of Shadow Coaching™ Methodology
- Founder and principal of ‘A Better Perspective™
- Founder and principal of The School of Shadow Coaching™, master level coach training
- Creator of Mindsful ™ International R & D Team
- International Speaker, author and lecturer

For more information go to www.abetterperspective.com

Donna Karlin, CEC’s Specialties:

- High impact learning
- Transitioning leaders into new positions and roles
- Transformational leadership
- High potential leadership development
- Communication skills
- Team productivity
- Innovation and creativity
- Subject matter expertise on how government and public service work
- Time mastery
Helping people discover what they're not aware of in themselves...or paying attention to so they can evolve into their level of excellence.

Donna Karlin, CEC’s Experience

President and member of the Board

International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO)

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

October 2009 — Present (3 months)

A “United Nations of Coaching”; a body of divergent opinions and perspectives, alert to the ideas of others, collaborative, inclusive, respectful of differences and transparently apolitical.
Advisor

INSPIRIT, Sustainable Design and Promotion Group

(Design industry)

March 2009 — Present (10 months)

Providing language expertise for effective communication and advisor for effective group dynamics
Executive Coach

Karlin Sloan & Company

(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

March 2009 — Present (10 months)

Karlin Sloan & Company helps organizations develop critical leadership capacities and practices to build the leadership pipeline, increase retention and engagement, and create a sustainable enterprise.

Client firms include Columbia University, Wrigley, Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage and Corning among others.
CAM Team member

Conversation Among Masters

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)
Member of the Board of Advisors

Foundation for Leadership Coaching

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

August 2009 — Present (5 months)

FILC is the non-profit foundation founded to meet the unmet needs for leadership coaching of many government and international non-government organization leaders around the world. We seek to serve leaders who are committed to having a positive impact on environmental sustainability, international peace through non-violent means, and quality of life for all.
Member of the Board of Directors

The Coach Initiative

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

A central gathering point where professional Coaches can volunteer their experience and expertise in support of global projects that focus on the betterment of the human condition and uplifting the human spirit.
FAST COMPANY Leadership Expert

FAST COMPANY

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

August 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

Fast Company Expert on Leadership. Write weekly column "Jumping into the Deep End of Leadership" which you can view at: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/donna-karlin/jumping-deep-end-leadership
Founder and Principal

School of Shadow Coaching (SOSC)

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

November 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)

Advanced Coach Training designed to meet current needs being expressed by the community of graduate, masterful coaches and to bring forward the latest models, and frameworks in support of integration and evolution of graduate learning.

Donna Karlin introduces her internationally acclaimed method of Shadow Coaching™, a particularly effective advanced application of reflective and observational coaching. This real-time learning approach develops refined self-awareness by reflecting on clients’ actual day-to-day practice. As a result, clients become self-observers for the long term and coaches expand their practice and their capabilities. www.schoolofshadowcoaching.com
Founder and Principal

Mindsful

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

January 2000 — Present (10 years )

Humans have immeasurable resources of energy, resilience, wisdom, and ability waiting to be set in motion. We can get to where we want to be by having a Coach who helps us utilize our resources to facilitate change and realize our potential and inner strength, no matter what the circumstances.

Our goal is to create the tools, ideas, and policies to facilitate this process by providing insight, information, and inspiration to all Coaches so that we can implement the coaching model to all aspects of life, worldwide.
Executive Coach

Canadian International Development Agency

(Government Agency; International Affairs industry)

2000 — Present (9 years )
President

A Better Perspective ™

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

October 1999 — Present (10 years 3 months)

Donna Karlin, C.E.C. is founder and principal of A Better Perspective™, Business, Executive and Political Leadership Coaching, and has pioneered the specialized practice of Shadow Coaching™ with global political, government, business and senior organizational leaders.

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.
Guest lecturer / Instructor

OISE, University of Toronto /Adler International Learning

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

July 2008 — June 2009 (1 year )

Guest lecturer for my internationally acclaimed method of Shadow Coaching™, a particularly effective advanced application of reflective and observational coaching. For more information, go to:
http://www.schoolofshadowcoaching.com/OISE_Adler.htm
Guest lecturer / Instructor

Adler School of Professional Coaching South West

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

July 2008 — April 2009 (10 months)

Advanced Reflective and Observational Coach Training for Executives & Organizational Leaders. For more information go to
http://www.schoolofshadowcoaching.com/OISE_Adler.htm
Executive Coach / Advisor

Microsoft UCG Vision Team

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

November 2005 — August 2008 (2 years 10 months)

A key player in 'Microsoft UCG Vision Team' which is a small team of independent experts or 'Visionaries' who provides "valuable, contextual insight into technology, business and workplace issues and trends."
Member of the Board of Governors

International Association of Coaching (IAC)

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

July 2007 — June 2008 (1 year )
Adjunct Teacher

CoachVille: Graduate School of Coaching

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2000 — 2003 (3 years )
Associate

Steppingstones Partnership

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

1994 — 1999 (5 years )

Donna Karlin, CEC’s Education

Graduate School of Coaching

Advanced Coach Training 1999 — 2003

For complete list of education and training go to www.TheShadowCoach.com
McGill University

Performance , Music , 1971 — 1976
Professional School of Psychology

Post Grad , 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

Additional Information

Donna Karlin, CEC’s Websites:

Donna Karlin, CEC’s Interests:

- Contributing columnist to Canadian Government Executive Magazine - Contributing Author to 'Fast Company Experts': Jumping Into the Deep End of Leadership http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/donna-karlin/jumping-deep-end-leadership - Newsletter: Perspectives in Brief. To subscribe www.perspectivesinbrief.com/subscribe - Co-author of '101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life' www.abetterperspective.com/101_Great_Ways.htm - School of Shadow Coaching www.schoolofshadowcoaching.com for advanced coach training Twitter: http://twitter.com/abetter1

Donna Karlin, CEC’s Groups:

- Member of the Board of Directors of The Coach Initiative
- Participant/ key player in Microsoft™ ‘Vision Team’,
- Vice President and Board member of International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations’ (ICCO),
- Member of International Mentoring Network Organization,
- Founder of Mindsful™, International Research and Development Team of Coaches,
- Founding member of CoachVille,
- Member of International Coach Federation,
- Member of Canadian Society for Training and Development,
- Member of Faith Popcorn's TalentBank