
President, A Better Perspective: Executive and Political Leadership Coaching
Ottawa, Canada Area

President, A Better Perspective: Executive and Political Leadership Coaching
Ottawa, Canada Area
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
- 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.
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 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.
(Design industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Providing language expertise for effective communication and advisor for effective group dynamics
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
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.
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
Envisioning 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.
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
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
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Advanced Reflective and Observational Coach Training for Executives & Organizational Leaders. For more information go to
http://www.schoolofshadowcoaching.com/OISE_Adler.htm
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
August 2006 — Present (3 years)
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
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
November 2004 — Present (4 years 9 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
(Government Agency; International Affairs industry)
2000 — Present (9 years)
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)
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.
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
October 1999 — Present (9 years 10 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.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; 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."
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
July 2007 — June 2008 (1 year)
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
1994 — 1999 (5 years)
Advanced Coach Training 1999 — 2003
For complete list of education and training go to www.TheShadowCoach.com
Performance , Music , 1971 — 1976
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
- 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