Meet Karina
Accredited Senior Coach Practitioner
Hello, I am a Senior Coach Practitioner accredited with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) with over 7 years coaching experience.
I have over 40 years in the Healthcare Profession and Global Pharmaceutical Research and Development. I have led both matrix and line teams to successfully deliver a range of projects and change initiatives. My roles have constantly changed. As a Director I have had the opportunity to evoke change with team members and other people across the company, and this has been deeply satisfying. For several years I also co-designed and lead a 6 month development program called the 'Deep Dive' for scientists across the division. This program took a coaching approach to transformational change.
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It is this backdrop of science that has led me over the last 10 years to study (and become increasingly fascinated by) the role our minds have in all aspects of our life, including:
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Leadership of self.
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Leadership of others.
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Our choice of careers and progression in our career.
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Our health, wellbeing and resilience.
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Our ability to be in a 'right relations' with others.
I am particularly interested in new breakthroughs in neuroscience and neurobiology that are shedding light on how our bodies are integral to healing trauma, accurately understanding the present, and essential for initiating lasting change.
Uncovering my own strengths and passions has led me to coaching. I am a Trained Professional Coach and I am currently undertaking a Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching programme. This approach is holistic and embraces the inner and outer worlds of the coachee (or client) and supports lasting change.
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I firmly believe (and celebrate) that each of us is unique, and has something to give to this world. However, sometimes our minds get in the way! I work with my coachees so that they can create new insights and understandings, hold new empowering beliefs about themselves, to find their will to change and have the courage to explore new behaviours and actions in service of their goals. Everyone has the potential to be the best version of themselves and to live a fulfilled and happy life.
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I live in Hertfordshire, UK - but we are just a zoom click away from each other! I am married with 3 children and dog. I love anything that connects me with those real 'glimmers' of a joyful life: a long walk with a great view, the sound of the sea, a coffee with a friend, connecting with nature, baking a cake, seeing something I've grown from seed actually flower, or a glass of red wine!
What are your 'glimmers?'

Coaching credentials

Post Graduate Certificate (PGC) in Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching
Jan - Oct 2024

The Power of Embodied Transformation
March - July 2023

Positive Power and Influence
March 2022

Professional Coaching Diploma - Part 1
March - August 2021