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Over the course of our lives, we each face our own particular and very personal challenges - of mastering a new challenge in the workplace, dealing with unexpected or unwanted change, living and working in foreign cultures, moving beyond our past and creating a new future, or creating a meaningful life in a hurried and impersonal world. Our challenges can frustrate us deeply, or even appear insurmountable. Sometimes the support, expertise and confidence of a trustworthy partner is all we need to enable us to once again move forward with confidence.

My own life has been full of change and the challenge of finding my way in new and unfamiliar territory. Learning, growth and transformation have been central to my survival, well-being and success. I owe a great debt to a few gifted coaches who have been instrumental in my journey.

My background

Raised in Virginia (U.S.A.), at 23 I moved to San Francisco. Passionate about food and wine, I ran a small local restaurant and catered events. Later, intrigued with healing and medicine, I entered the biotech & pharmaceutical industry as a scientific recruiter. As my career progressed, I moved to generalist, business partner, specialist and managerial/leadership human resources roles at local and global levels for three international companies.

Qualifications
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC), certified November 2018, International Coaching Federation
- Leadership and Coaching with Horses, completed December 2016, Connected Leadership
- Hogan HPI, HDS and MVPI, certified March 2015, Psychological Consultancy Limited
- ValuesOnline, accredited August 2015, ValuesOnline
- Being In Movement Hands-on Methods, completed August 2015 with Paul Linden and Mark Walsh
- Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI), certified November 2014, the Hay Group
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Step II, certified July 2012, OPP
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Step I, certified August 2011, OPP
- Ontological Coach, certified January 2011, Newfield Network
- Strategic Human Resources "Beyond HR", completed 2007, U.C. Marshall
- Change Management, certified 2007, ProSci
- Strategic Talent Management, completed 2006, ICEDR and London Business School
- Roche "Engage" Executive Leadership Program, completed 2006, IMD (Roche)
- Proteus Leadership Development Program, completed 2005, London Business School
- Roche "Insights" Executive Leadership Program, completed 1999 and 2000, London Business School (Roche)
- Roche Hi-potential Development Program, completed 1999, Columbia University (Roche)
- Personal Insights Inventory (PII), certified 1994, InColor Insight
- B.S Organizational Behavior, 1996, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

e-mail: karen@TakeWing.ch
phone (international): +41 79 410 71 95
phone (within Switzerland): 079 410 71 95
location: Basel region, Switzerland