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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
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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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Certifications

Badge with text „ICF Member. International Coaching Federation“.Badge with text „ICF PCC. Professional Certified Coach“.Badge with text „Professional Scrum Master I“.Badge with text „Professional Scrum Product Owner I“.Badge with text „Certified SolutionsAcademy Master Coach“.Badge with text „leadership choices. Associate Leadership Coach“.Badge with text „Hogan Assessments Certification“.

Why Work With Karla

  • Solution-focused approach
  • Natural ability to create rapport quickly
  • Exceptional bilingual communication skills
  • High comfort level with digital technology and AI

Clients

Curated choice of companies, universities, and organizations I’ve happily worked with.

  • Aareal
  • AWB
  • AOK Systems
  • Bayer
  • DeepL
  • Deutschlandfunk
  • DM
  • Ford
  • Gleiss Lutz
  • Hochschule Niederrhein
  • Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
  • IMI Z&J
  • iW
  • Jobcenter Köln
  • Landmarken AG
  • Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
  • PUMA
  • pwc
  • Roche
  • SNP
  • Statkraft
  • SwissLife
  • Telekom
  • testo
  • Universität Koblenz Landau
  • Unitymedia
  • epilot
  • stepstone
  • Universität Bonn
  • VR-NetWorld
  • Uniper
  • Creative.NRW

How Can Coaching Help You?

  • Leadership development is a personal journey best unlocked with a personal professional coach.
  • Coaching inspires thoughtful conversations with long-lasting impact on leadership topics that matter
  • Wellbeing and mental fitness are critical and best served by the inner reflective work done together with a certified coach.

What Others Say

👉 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.

Corinna Schäffer, Service Operations Excellence Manager EMEA Edwards

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👉 Vielen Dank für die sehr vertrauensvolle und jederzeit konstruktive Zusammenarbeit. Karla ist eine sehr erfahrene Coach-Frau, sie hat mir während unserer Coaching-Phase viele Entwicklungsimpulse gegeben, mich und meine Themen immer wieder herausgefordert und mich damit optimal auf meinen nächsten Karriereschritt vorbereitet

Claudia Eisele, Leiter/in, Württembergische Versicherung AG

👉 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.

Teresa Chandler, Senior HR Professional

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👉 Karla geht mit deinen Bedürfnissen mit, passt sich spontan an und stellt wirklich gute Fragen 😊

👉 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.

Dr. U. Haas/IT Revision, Fiducia & GAD IT

👉 … We wanted to work on our challenges with agile methods. In this respect, I found the perfect moderator for us. With a lot of charm, expertise, and experience, Karla made sure that we were able to work on all our issues in a lively and interactive manner with excellent results.

Oliver Welsch. CPO at Deutsche Teilkauf

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Get in Touch

Contact me today to start improving your life and career with my professional impact coaching!

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How Can Team Coaching Help Your Team?

  • Enable groups to become effective agile teams
  • Team Coaching activates resources, is motivating, and builds confidence
  • Inspires and guides teams to take on ownership of their agile workflows

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.

Book Cover „Das Dynamische Unternehmen“Book Cover „Das Dynamische Unternehmen“

New Book

Lawyer Well-being – Personal Health of Legal Professionals in Times of Disruption

Read Karla’s Book Chapter

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

Media

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