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.
Certifications
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
Get in Touch
Contact me today to start improving your life and career with my professional impact coaching!
How Can Team Coaching Help Your Team?
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
🎄Navigating toxic colleagues and challenging chefs: A Christmas Gift to Yourself 🎁
Best 6 strategies to protect your peace, set boundaries, and feel resilient 🌟
🌟 Build Resilient Leaders for a Future-Ready Team 🌟
🔥 Burn Out or Bore Out?💡 Manage both effectively!
Reflection, Resilience, Results: What’s New in DesignChange Coaching
From Burnout to Breakthrough: Practical Strategies for Leaders
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)