Karen du Four des Champs, PCC

Karen wears several coaching hats

I wear multiple hats to our work together, coalescing my 67 years of life and professional experience: coach, advisor, trainer, mentor, human; integrating the latest in neuroscience with tools, apps, and techniques to get to the cor* of what's stopping you from building and sustaining momentum moving forward. To navigate the many transitions in your life.

Some transitions are chosen... some are joyful... some devastating... some long overdue... and some arrive without permission. So, What now? That is where I enter. Not with an answer already decided for you. With an invitation: To discover what’s possible.

To explore your mindset. To expand your mindset. To align your mindset with what you truly want.

Because neuroplasticity for the brain is just as important as physical plasticity for our overall well-being, I approach coaching from a mindset framework, addressing: “getting to the cor* of what stops you...” using a systems’ approach: the Operating System of Positive Intelligence PQ®.

The right mindset contributes to a highly-adaptable and resilient individual, leader, team, organization, and coach. That’s why I am first a PQ® Mental Fitness Coach, laying the foundation for accelerating the development of leaders, strengthening teams, coaching clients during transitions, and mentoring other coaches: creating long-term, transformational, sustainable results.

As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF), I have excelled in my role as a PQ® Mental Fitness Coach.

“Karen started her Positive Intelligence training in May 2020, while living in Oman during lockdown, feeling “stuck” — metaphorically and physically—unable to leave as both the country and airport were closed for months.

Through her journey of self-development as a professional, credentialed, and certified coach, she acquired new practical habit-stacking tools and brain activation techniques, called PQ®️ Reps. These innovations—based on the latest in neuroscience—created a transformative mindset, helping her turn previously “stuck” challenges into new, unforeseen opportunities.

(Read her latest Blog post.)

These lessons continue to guide her actions today, August 2026.

She has been bringing this PQ®️ Mental Fitness program to her clients for over 6 years.

And has used the Saboteur Assessment with her clients since 2016.

“Straddling seemingly contrasting worlds, with outward differences in ways of life… cultural norms… religious preferences… climates… time zones… I know from my years of traveling and meeting people from across the globe, each person I have met brings a common desire to bring the best of who they are into the world… to their work… to their teams… to their families.”

- Karen / Kareema (coaching for a decade across the Middle East)

From a small penne exclave, across the border to Canada (literally, the house across the street is in Canada!), Karen now coaches individual and corporate clients, as well as mentor other coaches—globally, remotely, with in-person sessions upon request. She’s been coaching, consulting, training, advising, mentoring, and delivering workshops and trainings since 1995, first across North America, than the Middle East (primarily Saudi, Oman, and Bahrain), and now from her office in Point Roberts, Washington.

“Karen blends theory, application, and practice from various schools of leadership thought, change management, and coaching methodologies.

Together, she works with you and your team to co-create solutions to address your current challenges.”

Karen's is an approved ICF Coach

Karen is proud to be one of over 60,000-plus International Coaching Federation* members ID #009210573I, located in more than 155 countries and territories as an ICF* credentialed executive coach at the PCC distinction (one of 26,789 coaches at this level) leadership development consultant, interactive and engaging trainer, an insightful facilitator, a transformational culture shaper, a powerful keynote speaker, and an ICF Registered Mentor coach, in addition to being a Certified PQ® Mental Fitness Coach.

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For the long story

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 refugee camps located 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 45-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.

After working 6 years as an internal coach in the Gulf Region in the Middle East, including 2 years establishing an internal Executive Coaching office in a large Omani company, Karen relaunched her executive coaching, training, and consulting business globally. She serves clients located globally, across multiple times zones—virtually and in-person—with clients in Australia, Oman, Saudi, Bahrain, Canada, and the USA.

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

“Karen is multi-certified executive, leadership, mental fitness, and mentor coach.

Her ability to work across diverse cultural contexts, such as the GCC and North America, alludes to a nuanced understanding of global business dynamics and leadership needs.

Karen's focus on transformational coaching for top leaders and executives indicates a dedication to driving meaningful change and achieving sustainable results. Her proficiency in facilitating learning events on various topics, including cross-cultural collaboration, change resilience, emotional intelligence, and building a growth mindset, underscores her versatility and breadth of knowledge.

Clients have reported tangible benefits such as increased performance, reduced stress, and greater happiness.”

**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 ~2000 hours of coaching. Completed 1000+ hours of certified coach training.  Passed the Coach Knowledge Assessment (CKA) with a score >90% in 2017. PCC Credential renewed September 2022.‍ Renewed every 3 years as required. 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 6 years of (1000 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. Twice graduate of PQM - PQ Mastery:  March 2023 and May 2026‍

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 Cultural Orientation Framework (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, including Bank of America.

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, and an additional 2+ years with leaders at Opic/OQ, Oman’s premiere Oil Company working both at their HQs in Muscat and at the oil refineries in Sohar, along the Gulf of Oman.

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