Karla Schlaepfer M.A.
Advance your leadership skills with Karla’s engagement, experience and expertise.
- 25 years of Facilitation Practice
- 15 years of Professional Coaching Experience
- 10 years as Female Founder + Business Manager

Experience the transformative coaching of Karla Schlaepfer!
My coaching philosophy in 70 seconds (German)
Karla, a seasoned Executive Coach (PCC), excels in the art of constructive challenge. Her approach combines deep insights with practical strategies and learning nuggets, to help you build your strengths, achieve your goals, and improve your well-being.
A respected HR professional affirms, “Karla’s coaching seamlessly blends knowledge and empathy, making her an indispensable partner in my professional journey.”
Karla’s impact as a coach is evident: 25% of her clients extend their coaching programs!
Fluent in German and her native American English, Karla works internationally. She offers remote and live coaching services to senior executives, business leaders, professional legal service providers, and striving individuals. She specializes in resilience, neurodiversity awareness, and female equity + empowerment DEI.
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Why Work With Karla
Clients
Curated choice of companies, universities, and organizations I’ve happily worked with.
How Can Coaching Help You?
What Others Say
👉 Karla ist eine sehr inspirierende Begleitung. […] Diese Tiefe der Bearbeitung meiner Anliegen hat mir geholfen, eine neue Perspektive einzunehmen und damit die Chance eröffnet, durch die ganzheitlichere Betrachtung mein Verhalten auch langfristig zu trainieren. Die Denkimpulse, die Sie gesetzt hat, werde ich mir noch sehr lange vor Augen führen können.
👉 Karla has the remarkable ability to helped me find my path and walked it with me. She quickly grasped new topics and introduced fresh perspectives. We have created a structured plan for my development and the time spent with her was incredibly valuable. Karla is a highly communicative, positive, and empathetic coach and I wholeheartedly recommend her.
👉 Die Zusammenarbeit mit Karla Schlaepfer im Rahmen des Coachings hat mich sehr beeindruckt. Karla Schlaepfer besitzt eine hohe Fachkompetenz, die sie durch ihre langjährige Erfahrung optimal in die Sitzungen einbringt. […] Karla ist stets flexibel auf meine aktuellen Themen und Probleme eingegangen, behielt dabei aber immer meine Ziele und meine persönliche Entwicklung im Blick […]
👉 I am immensely grateful that Karla was my executive coach for one year. During this time she was very patient with me to fully understand what coaching is. Her observant way of asking questions helped me to discover the right path forward to achieve my goals not only in my professional but also personal life.
👉 Karla has been an invaluable resource in helping me navigate a new job. From our very first session, I knew that I had found someone who truly understood the complexities of my role and could provide me with the guidance and support I needed to succeed.
👉 Once again, thank you very much Karla for the exciting workshop! The practical examples have shown how agile strategies can be applied and these will be helpful for the implementation in our everyday business life, which we will now tackle.
Get in Touch
Contact me today to start improving your life and career with my professional impact coaching!
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My Books
I have written these two books which have helped numerous companies, teams and individuals to understand and take steps to deliver better, innovative results.
New Book
Lawyer Well-being – Personal Health of Legal Professionals in Times of Disruption
Credentials
Trainer, Facilitator, Change Coach and Business Manger
- Female Founder and Business Owner: 2014 Das dynamische Unternehmen GbR, 2016 Design Thinking Academy, 2021 Value4p GmbH
- Professional Accredited Coach (PCC)™ by the International Coaching Federation (ICF)
- ACTP, SF Master Coaching Class, Solutions Academy
- Systemic Coach and Change Management, Ineko at the University of Cologne
- Published Non-Fiction Book(s) Author and Researcher
- Design Thinking Certificate (Hasso-Plattner Institute, Potsdam)
- Recognition Award from LEAD, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Accreditations in Agile Processes (PSM1 + PSPO)
- University Teaching Work Certificates
- BA Degree in Humanities, University of California, Berkeley USA
- Master of Arts in Education, University Freiburg
- Trained by Milton Erickson Institute
- NLP Practitioner
- Official Partner and Coach Legal Revolution
- Trained in Facilitation + Simplicity (Denkmotor)
My Blog Posts

Design Your Change and Lead with Heart ❤️
Leadership Insights

🏀 Stop Playing Golf, Start Playing Basketball: The Real Rules of CollaborationIs your team acting like a group of solo players—or a real team?

How Supercommunicators Can Help Managers Lead Better Conversations
Charles Duhigg reveals: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Karla’s articles elsewhere
- New Work. A Gamechanger for the Legal Profession. Enhancing our strengths with Virtual Reality (English) DesignChange
- LLI WHITE PAPER. Agile Working Method for Legal Departments | A practical and empirical report with impulses for implementation contains the Agile Manifesto adapted for legal departments (English) liquid legal institute
- NRW Creative Wirtschaft Interview (German) CREATIVE.NRW
- Five Reasons to Love your Mistakes (German) KarriereBoost
- Remote Legal Teams – Getting started and Making it Work! (English)