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
![Headshot of Karla Schlaepfer](karla.jpg)
Experience the transformative coaching of Karla Schlaepfer!
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 service providers, and striving individuals. She specializes in fostering resilience and neurodiversity awareness.
Certifications
![Badge with text „ICF Member. International Coaching Federation“.](badge01.png)
![Badge with text „ICF PCC. Professional Certified Coach“.](badge02.png)
![Badge with text „Professional Scrum Master I“.](badge03.png)
![Badge with text „Professional Scrum Product Owner I“.](badge04.png)
![Badge with text „Certified SolutionsAcademy Master Coach“.](badge05.png)
![Badge with text „leadership choices. Associate Leadership Coach“.](badge06.png)
![Badge with text „Hogan Assessments Certification“.](badge07.png)
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 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.
👉 Das Coaching bei Karla hat mich in mehreren Dimensionen meiner Fähigkeiten als Führungskraft weitergebracht. Sie hat mich sehr unterstützt, eigene Lösungen zu entwickeln, die zu mir passen. Durch unsere Zusammenarbeit habe ich gelernt, mehr auf die menschlichen Aspekte in der Beziehung zu meinen Mitarbeitern zu achten. Weiterhin konnte ich durch ihre Unterstützung Konflikte auf meiner Führungsebene und mit meinem Vorgesetzten besser einordnen und so sinnvoll lösen.
👉 During the Designsprint, Karla Schlaepfer introduced us to methods, some of which we have since used in other projects. We have also tried to reactivate the spirit from the workshop with Karla in other contexts and work, such as being open to new things on the one hand, but also proceeding in a focused and structured manner. We also built a small user database, which we have used a few times since then. For us, the Design Sprint with Karla was therefore inspiring and sustainable beyond the actual 5-day workshop.
👉 Karla and I have teamed up during the last few months to explore the opportunities of virtual space for new forms of work and coaching for legal professionals. I highly appreciate her open mindset and creative intelligence. Mastering conventional hybrid work settings is already a challenge. However, Karla’s expertise even allows her to create a trusting atmosphere in virtual space.
👉 Toller Workshop! Karla Schlaepfer hat uns in wenig Zeit unsere Herausforderungen in einer digitalisierten Arbeitswelt (be)greifbar gemacht. Besonders inspirierend und hilfreich waren die von Ihnen gestalteten Anregung zum agilen Arbeiten. Sie hat alle gleichermaßen aktiv begeistern können.
👉 From the very beginning, the collaboration with Karla was shaped by trust. As a team, we had a very good sense that we could learn new ways and tools and that we could take our engineering charter and our collective actions to a higher, better level.
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
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)