School of Shadow Coaching™: Founder's Bio

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 24 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 involved in numerous professional organizations including Vice President of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO), a member in good standing of 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), is a member of Faith Popcorn's TalentBank, and is an Executive and Political Leadership Expert for SelfGrowth.com.

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, ‘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 136 countries and territories. Donna is a leadership expert for Fast Company and writes a weekly column called “Jumping Into the Deep End of Leadership” , is a contributing author for The Coaching Commons, is an expert author for Evan Carmichael: Motivation and Strategies for Entrepreneurs, co-writes a blog with her Transformational Girlfriends and is a columnist for Canadian Government Executive Magazine.

She has a proven track record in developing leadership and managing change.