Donna Karlin CEC, founder of A Better Perspective™ has pioneered the specialized practice of Shadow Coaching™ with over 130 senior organizational leaders in the public and private sectors and is committed to growing individual and collaborative leadership capacity.

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.  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 23 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 a member of numerous professional organizations including 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), a member of Professional Coaches and Mentors Association, and a member of the International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations.

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 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 104 countries and territories. As well, Donna is a chosen key contributor to the new weblog execuBooks Blog which presents “current thinking by the best minds in business” around the world, writes a weekly column for Fast Company Experts called “Jumping Into the Deep End of Leadership” , writes a blog for Microsoft Unified Collaborations Group Vision Team and is a new columnist for Canadian Government Executive Magazine.

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