Coach Spotlight on… Donna Karlin A Better Perspective ™ DonnaKarlin@abetterperspective.com How did you discover coaching? My son’s surgeon told me (not asked) 20 + years ago that I was going to coach all her future long term care patients. We worked with health care providers, surgeons, therapists and specialists in their various fields to create a coaching model for long term care patients and I haven’t looked back since. What personal growth work did you do to help you become successful as a coach? I took courses in leadership, training, organizational and industrial psychology, however with a focus in Executive Coaching. I worked with Thomas Leonard on his R & D team and basically took ideas and concepts from everything I read from the most obvious to magazine articles. And I asked many of my clients to work with me on creating models and techniques that they would use in the future. What coach training have you had? Since I’ve been coaching for a such a long time, the training I had was in creating models from the ground up and, through trial and error, perfecting them over time. As well I did my post graduate in organizational psychology with a focus in executive coaching so I could marry individual excellence with organizational excellence. Do you have a coaching specialty/niche? I’m a Shadow Coach, Observational Coach. As I’m observing clients throughout their day, I am able to give them ‘in real time’ personal performance feedback. Essentially I help clients become aware of important parts of their days, their behavior and habits that they weren't aware of, or were making incorrect assumptions about and with this new information and resulting insights, clients identify choices between what they want and what they are currently doing. From that they create tangible change by choice. I’m there to help them implement these changes and as a result continue to grow as effective leaders. |