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Newly Released Inquiring Minds Want to Grow

What if the secret to unlocking your fullest potential isn't about gathering more answers but asking the right questions?


Step aside, answers. Questions are taking the center stage!
Get ready to set sail on a transformative adventure with "Inquiring Minds Want to Grow: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Inquiry for Growth and Transformation." 

In a world obsessed with answers, this book arrives like a breath of fresh air. It's not just a how-to guide; it's a "why-not" compass that empowers you to rethink your entire approach to personal and professional growth. 

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My books

The Intrapreneur's Manifesto

New Release!!  The Intrapreneur's Manifesto

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The Intrapreneur's Manifesto—a groundbreaking blueprint for transforming organizations. This guide equips you with practical insights to conquer barriers, lead innovation, and unlock your team's creativity. Uncover hidden potential, break free from conventional thinking, and become a harbinger of change. Through real-world stories and proven techniques, this book empowers individuals and organizations to seize control of their destiny. Challenge the status quo, become an agent of evolution, and shape your organization's future. 

Radical Responsibility

New Release!! Radical Responsibility

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Radical Responsibility: Provocative Strategies for Ethical Leadership and Social Impact is a thought-provoking and empowering book that revolutionizes the concept of ethical leadership, offering practical strategies for creating positive societal change. The book challenges traditional notions of responsibility, urging leaders to adopt a radical mindset in addressing complex social issues.

The Inquiry Within

Stay tuned!  To be released soon!

"The Inquiry Within: A Workbook Companion to Inquiring Minds Want to Grow" is your gateway to the uncharted territories of your inner landscape. This interactive workbook is designed to deepen your exploration into self-awareness, empowerment, and transformation, complementing the transformative insights of the main book.

To be released soon!

Team Alchemy

New Release!! Team Alchemy

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Team Alchemy: Cracking the Code of High-Performance Teams is your guide to unlocking team success. Explore leadership, trust, motivation, and effective communication. Navigate conflicts and learn from real-world case studies. Future-proof your team with VR and AI. Transform your team from good to legendary.

Breaking the Busy Trap

New Release!!  Breaking the Busy Trap

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With a unique blend of motivational enthusiasm and practical wisdom, Breaking the Busy Trap: Flipping the Script on Productivity empowers readers to embrace a growth mindset, leverage innovative tools, and adopt unconventional strategies to achieve more while living a fulfilling life. This book is a roadmap to unlocking true productivity and personal growth in the modern world.

The Resilient Mindset

New Release! The Resilient Mindset

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Beneath an organization's surface lies a potent force shaping identity, decisions, and the future—culture. 'Culture Catalyst' delves deep, illuminating unseen dynamics that drive success. Beyond buzzwords, culture defines an organization's DNA, binding teams and steering interactions. This book unravels intricacies, from leadership's role to inclusion's significance, offering actionable insights. A practical guide armed with case studies, adapting culture in a tech-driven landscape. Become a culture catalyst—shape an era of inclusivity, innovation, and growth.

Reverse Mentoring

New Release!!  Reverse Mentoring

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Discover how seasoned professionals can benefit from the fresh perspectives, tech-savvy insights, and cultural fluency of younger colleagues. With a lively and forward-thinking tone, the book delves into the strategies, success stories, and practical tactics that can help individuals and organizations harness the potential of this dynamic approach to mentorship.

Blueprints of Brilliance

New Release!!  Blueprints of Brilliance

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Blueprints of Brilliance: Charting New Territory with the Idea Matrix delves into transforming business challenges into growth opportunities. It guides readers through identifying core issues, envisioning transformative solutions, and engaging stakeholders effectively. This book empowers with practical tools for innovative problem-solving, fostering a mindset that turns obstacles into steppingstones for success. Ideal for leaders and entrepreneurs, it's a roadmap for navigating the complexities of the business world and crafting a legacy of innovation and impact.

The Agile Mindset

New Release! the Agile Mindset

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The Agile Mindset centers on workplace agility principles. It explores adaptable mindsets and methods that help navigate rapid change, embrace uncertainty, and swiftly adapt to new situations. It offers insights into agile frameworks, empowering readers to excel in dynamic work environments.

A Happiness Hacker's Guide to Business Domination

New Release!!  A Happiness Hacker's Guide to Business Domination

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A Happiness Hacker’s Guide to Business Domination delves into innovative strategies and unconventional approaches that business leaders and entrepreneurs can use to not only foster happiness among their employees but also leverage this happiness as a tool for achieving dominance and success in their respective industries.

Talent Momentum

New Release!!  Talent Momentum

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Step into the vanguard of the talent revolution with Donna Karlin's "Talent Momentum, Attracting Brilliance for Tomorrow's Leaders" where conventional wisdom is left at the door and the future of talent attraction and retention awaits. This is not your standard HR rhetoric—prepare for a provocative dive into uncharted waters, where myths are busted, barriers are shattered, and the hiring game is played with a new set of exhilarating rules.

Culture Catalyst

New Release! Culture Calalyst

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Beneath an organization's surface lies a potent force shaping identity, decisions, and the future—culture. 'Culture Catalyst' delves deep, illuminating unseen dynamics that drive success. Beyond buzzwords, culture defines an organization's DNA, binding teams and steering interactions. This book unravels intricacies, from leadership's role to inclusion's significance, offering actionable insights. A practical guide armed with case studies, adapting culture in a tech-driven landscape. Become a culture catalyst—shape an era of inclusivity, innovation, and growth.

The Power Persuasion Blueprint

New Release! The Power Persuasion Blueprint

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The Power Persuasion Blueprint: a radical shift in corporate presentations. It envisions presentations as transformative experiences, turning audiences from passive listeners into engaged participants. This method involves mastering storytelling, humanizing data, employing visual design, utilizing technology, and refining delivery. The goal is clear—to craft presentations that inspire, persuade, and create lasting impact.

A League of Your Own

New Release! A League of Your Own

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A League of Your Own: Discovering Your Distinctive Advantage celebrates trailblazers who defy norms, embracing individuality and rebellion in the professional realm. They inspire by challenging standardized roles, unlocking unique potential, and shattering conventions. The book urges readers to uncover their core strengths, forging a path guided by values and ambitions. It showcases leaders who harnessed their distinctive traits, challenging industry norms to achieve greatness. This work invites us to question, learn, and be unapologetically ourselves in a world that rewards conformity.

Disruptive Collaboration

New Release! Disruptive Collaboration

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Disruptive Collaboration unveils how collaboration propels innovation and transformative organizational change. It details strategies for diverse, inclusive, cross-functional collaboration, harnessing team collective intelligence to conquer intricate issues and craft breakthrough solutions.


The Art of Addressing Situations in the Moment

The Art of Addressing Situations in the Moment

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Being able to speak up in real time to whatever unfolds is one of the most important skill sets you could ever learn. In this fast-paced world, we must make each second — never mind minute — count. Through the pages of this book, I will unpack situations, so you can use the rationales to address multiple contexts and how two minutes can change the status quo of a relationship, situation, or career. 

The Power of Coaching

The Power of Coaching

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When global leaders like Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, states getting a coach was "The best advice I ever got", you know coaching isn't going away any time soon.

If becoming a coach is your dream, this book will help you get all your ducks in a row.
In this book you’ll explore what coaching is, how you get started, what you need to decide whether or not to give up your day job in order to make a difference and the reality checker questions and answers you need to make those decisions.

Leaders Their Stories Their Words

Leaders: Their Stories Their Words
Conversations with Human-Based Leaders

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Have you ever wondered why some leaders stand heads above the crowd? What their secrets are and why their staff, colleagues, students and peers revere them so much?

Leaders: Their Stories, Their Words is an anthology of one-on-one conversations held between Donna Karlin, global executive and leadership coach, and the different leaders she invited to tell their stories.

Each leader was encouraged to share their personal history reflecting their transformative experiences. The stories of their amazing journeys de-mystify the experiences of seasoned and successful leaders.

Decoding AQ with Ross Thornley Featuring Donna Karlin on Adaptability and her approach to Coaching. Click here to listen in.


CUTV NEWS RADIO INTERVIEW

Jim Masters, Television and radio personality/host, correspondent/reporter, writer/producer for the award-winning CUTV News and CUTV News Radio interviews Donna Karlin, Founder of the No Ceiling, Just Sky™ Institute. Click here to listen in.

CUTV NEWS RADIO INTERVIEW

Doug Llewelyn, writer and producer, and interviewer for the award-winning CUTV News and CUTV News Radio interviews Donna Karlin, Founder of the No Ceiling, Just Sky™ Institute.
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HARVARD INSTITUTE OF COACHING PODCAST

Coaching the "Shadows": Supporting Senior Leaders through Volatility and Turbulence.
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PODCAST WITH DES WALSH

Donna was honoured to be featured on Des Walsh's Leadership Blog, speaking on Shadow Coaching for Effective Leadership. Click here to listen in.

Articles and Features

News Canada: September Issue: Make This Year's School Resolution an A+
The Star Phoenix: Take a load off: the digital backpack
Canadian Government Executive Magazine; Creating a High Performance Culture
Welland Tribune: How to keep balanced with so much digital clutter
The Boston Globe, Business Filter: Scheduled to Death?
New York Times: Skilled Traveler? Good Coach
Canadian Government Executive Magazine: Rising Stars
Vanguard Canada Magazine; Defense and Security Magazine: Rising Stars
Fast Company Magazine; Fast Company Now: What Would Your Life Look Like If...?
The National Post: High Cost of Mismanaged Meetings
Sales Promotion Magazine: Blogging For Dollars

Online Presence

Microsoft Business Center: Size Doesn't Matter: Unified Communications on a Limited Budget
Truth Force: Mobilizing Truth for Integral Sustainable Development: What are you going to give up?
The Globe and Mail: Email Overload
El Universo: Entrenador de vida ofrece ayuda a los viajeros frecuentes
Fast Company Fast 50: Company rated 9 out of 10 by Fast Company
Readers
The Training Report: Living Your Day Twice: Working With an Executive Shadow Coach
businessListening.com: Shadow Coaching® Gives Executives an Up-close Look at Themselves
businessListening.com: Don't Hate Meetings. Make Them More Effective

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