Donna Karlin CEC, founder of A Better Perspective™ & The School of Shadow Coaching has pioneered the specialized practice of Shadow Coaching™ with global political, business and senior organizational leaders in the public and private sectors.

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, 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’.

Principal of A Better Perspective™, Ms. Karlin has worked for over 26 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, creative designers and the medical community.

Donna is an author, lectures internationally, and is a key player in 5 international think tanks and research and development teams.

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.

Currently Donna is... 

President and Founder of 'A Better Perspective', Executive and Political Leadership Coaching, Consulting and Training, serving clients in many parts of the globe.  What we do is: 

• Observing and intervening in the ways people act and intervening to assist them to take full advantage of their talent and competencies in a given field,

• Observing how individuals construct interpretations about their ways of being which are then reflected through their language and actions,

•  Working with clients to fine tune communication styles for clarity, impact and leadership,

• Identifying talent for key leadership roles,

• Working with clients to think and respond in the moment; how to change decision making skills to be more in line with fast paced, intense environments.

Executive Coach with Karlin Sloan & Co., Chicago, Illinois. A premier provider of leadership development consulting  and coaching in organizations that rely on collaboration and innovation. We believe that leadership means taking personal responsibility for results.  We work with senior executives, high-potential leaders, and teams. Clients include PepsiCo, Wrigley, Corning, Allstate, Wharton Executive Education, The United Nations.

Executive Coach with the Federal Consulting Group, National Business Center, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C. - Providing specialized executive coaching to US Federal Government Departments and Agencies

Founder and Principal of The School of Shadow Coaching. Our training is designed to meet current needs being expressed by the community of graduate coaches and to bring forward our latest models, frameworks and Shadow Coaching™ material in support of integration and evolution of graduate learning.

Advisor to the Executive Director and Member of the Advisory Board of The Foundation for International Leadership Coaching, Boston, Mass.  The FILC is a global 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

Advisor and Coach for INSPIRIT International Communications , Brussels, Belgium - supporting United Nations and Global Health initiatives.

Founder and Principal of Mindsful™ Global Research and Development Team. Masterful international Coaches and people with unique life experiences collaborating and creating coaching models and training techniques in support of Coaches and coaching worldwide.

President and member of the Board of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO). The only organization that impacts global and national organizations at all levels, including the levels at which strategic thinking and planning is done. ICCO is the only global organization that has brought together coaches with stakeholders within organizations and has a vision to create connection, dialogue, and creativity between all those stakeholders.

Member of the Board of The Coach Initiative. The central gathering point where professional, Master Coaches can volunteer their experience and expertise in support of global projects that focus on the betterment of the human condition.  We currently have projects in the middle east, coaching within peace initiatives, and for non profits in the medical and social welfare arenas.

Member of the design team for Conversation Among Masters (CAM) an invitation-only event designed specifically and exclusively for Master Coaches from all over the world.

Leadership Expert and Columnist for Fast Company, New York, NY, "Jumping Into the Deep End of Leadership"

Founding member and past member of the Board of Governors of the International Association of Coaching (IAC).

Educational Background…

Post graduate degree in Organizational Psychology with Focus in Executive Coaching from The Professional School of Psychology, Sacramento, California  &  Canadian Institute for Research and Education in Human Systems. - “Advanced 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

• Recognizing and giving feedback on distinctive strengths and competencies

• Recognizing and uncovering distinctive strengths and competencies

• Recognizing 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.

 

Media…

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, Personal Success Magazine, as well as in numerous online articles including BusinessListening.com, The Training Report, and SelfGrowth.com.  She has written two eBooks,  co-authored the bestselling book ‘101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life’, and is currently working on a book on Human Based Leadership. 

Her blog Perspectives™ is subscribed to by readers from 139 countries and territories.  She is a contributing author for The Coaching Commons, a frequent contributor to Canadian Government Executive Magazine and Vanguard, Canadian Premier Defence and Security Magazine, and is an expert author for Evan Carmichael: Motivation and Strategies for Entrepreneurs. 

She has a proven track record in developing sustainable leadership.