Karen du Four des Champs, PCC

Karen du Four des Champs, PCC

Karen is a Certified Mental Fitness Coach and ICF* credentialed executive coach at the PCC distinction, leadership development consultant, interactive and engaging trainer, an insightful facilitator, a transformational culture shaper, a powerful keynote speaker, and an ICF Registered Mentor coach.

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Scroll down to read Karen’s unusual non-traditional career trajectory, which yielded rich experiences, unique insights, and fresh perspectives; bringing past professional roles and life lessons into her current work with clients.

In her early 20’s Karen started working with an NGO partner of the US State Department, followed by 2 years with UNHCR, both based in Peninsular Malaysia—and that was prior to obtaining her University Bachelor’s degree. Back in the 80s they weren’t called “gap years,” but to this day, her “almost 4-year break” from academics—including 6 months solo backpacking throughout SE Asia and the South Pacific—was the best education from the ‘School of Hard Knocks’ she received. Karen learned resilience, problem-solving, and perseverance in spades.

Her 40-year-career has spanned industries, sectors, and countries. In addition to working with NGOs, non-profits, the financial sector, the tech industry, engineering, being an entrepreneur in tourism, and more recently serving clients in oil & gas, she spent 6 years in the Criminal Justice system managing a team of 20 legal advocates.

The bulk of her career has been 40 years in various roles across the “HR field”—from facilitating, learning & development, HR generalist, HR manager, performance management, talent management, and organizational development — with her focus over the past decade working in globally competitive companies delivering: coaching, facilitating, speaking, upskilling leaders, mentoring other coaches, and transforming workplace cultures towards more inclusivity, higher trust, and happier, engaged team members.

Karen’s diverse industry experience, together with working interculturally, is what makes her uniquely qualified to coach any leader from any sector across multiple continents, crisscrossing time zones, serving over 40 nationalities.

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After working 6 years as an internal coach in the ME—including 2 years establishing an internal Executive Coaching office in a large Omani company—I relaunched my executive coaching, training, and consulting business globally. We serve clients located all over the world, virtually and in person.

From 1:1 coaching … to large scale culture and employee workshops and change management solutions

“With offices across the Middle East and outside Seattle, I coach executives and leaders 1:1, in groups, in teams, as well as facilitate training, co-designing/developing/delivering customise leadership programs—always bringing an intercultural mindset to individuals and groups—while implementing solutions that drive your culture initiatives.**” - Karen in her USA office

**Karen was lead on a multi-year employee and culture engagement assignment as part of a large workplace culture re-framework due to a M&A— traveling to various in-country locations across Oman, Germany, Singapore, and USA, to solicit feedback, interview employees, implement employee-engagement surveys, and facilitate in-person focus groups—resulting in concrete, tangible recommendations made to senior leadership for employee buy-in of the new organisation’s proposed values, behaviours, and culture integration priorities.

Providing coaching to leaders since 1995.

Professional Certified Coach Credential (PCC), awarded in 2018 by the global regulating body, the International Coaching Federation which sets the international competencies, standards, and rigors for our profession. Delivered and documented ~1000 hours of coaching. Completed 600+ hours of certified coach training.  Passed the Coach Knowledge Assessment (CKA) with a score >90% in 2017. PCC Credential renewed September 2022. ICF Registered Mentor Coach since May 2021.

Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) Awarded December 19, 2017. Completed over 200 coach specific training and certification hours from The Coach Training Institute (CTI)—the world’s largest and oldest in-person coach training school in the world—attending culturally diverse learning cohorts in Dubai and Los Angeles.

Certified Mental Fitness Coach (CPQC) with the world’s leading Mental Fitness training company. Karen began as a “Pioneer” in this positive psychology methodology blending neuroscience with cognitive behavioural psychology and performance science and and has completed over 4 years of (117 hours of CCEs) of intensive coach training into the PQ Coach Model, PQ Framework, and PQ Operating System founded by Stanford lecturer, CEO Coach, and former CTI CEO, Shirzad Chamine MBA, author of the NY Times Best Seller Positive Intelligence. Graduate of PQ Mastery, 29 March 2023 (Six month program: Oct 2022-March 2023).

Trained in the Cultural Orientations Framework (COF) assessment tool and its applications, (52 hours CCEs) working with individuals and teams, at the intensive interculturalism training in Singapore (November 2019) with Professor Philippe Rosinski, author of Coaching Across Cultures, Global Coaching and founder of the COF.

Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC™), an integrated and robust systemic approach based on RSI (Relationship Systems Intelligence™), used for working with teams and groups. Completed ORS@Work in 2019.

Trained Action Learning (AL) Coach, a team and group coaching methodology from the World Institute for Action Learning (WIAL), a process that involves small groups working on real problems, taking action, and learning as individuals, as a team, and as an organization.

Worked as an “On-the-job” (OTJ) Performance improvement coach with leaders in Fortune 500 companies across North America from 1995-2014.

Worked as a leadership coach for 4+ years with leaders at Saudi Aramco, traveling across the Arabian Peninsula, including remote areas like Saudi Arabia’s Empty Quarter, Shaybah.

Mentored by a Master-level MCC Coach Supervisor. (“Every good coach should have a coach.”)

     - Karen du Four des Champs, PCC, CPCC, ORSC, COF, CPQC Coach