Good Leaders into Great Teams

I support teams to amplify their impact.

… by partnering with you to co-create solutions to reveal the greatness across your team…. your organisation… the yet-untapped capacity that exists among your individual contributors.

And I start with you — transforming YOU into the great leader you were meant to be in order to revitalize, build, and sustain your team and organisation.

I will challenge you to bring your best self forth so “who you are” is congruent with “how you lead” your teams.

*Using the evidence-based 8-week Mental Fitness Accelerator Program which builds new neural pathways in the brain as seen under MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans — based on the work of Shirzad Chamine, Stanford Lecturer and New York Times Best Selling author, Positive Intelligence —17 of the 18 EQ competencies have been shown to increase, leading to overall higher performance teams and decreased individual stress.

Since 1995 coaching leaders and teams across North America and the Middle East.

Bespoke Retreats

  • Away Days / Teambuilding Days

    I co-design with you and your team to facilitate experiential experiences (outdoors whenever possible) which push members out of their comfort zone into a new hands-on learning environment, to not only re-discover how they show up on their team, but uncover new aspects of each person’s leadership style, creating long-lasting tangible results.

  • Merging Teams: 1 + 1 = 1

    When new teams merged, I co-design activities (interactive games, simulations, role plays, and other structured experiences) which create greater team spirit, cohesion, personal trust, resulting in role clarity and a sense of ONE TEAM. “Tapping the collective wisdom of the ‘system’ rather than telling people what to do, builds shared leadership at all levels of the organization.” - Systems Inspired Leadership.

  • Leadership Retreats, Facilitation, Culture Change

    From facilitating fireside chats in the desert with a leader and his team, to co-leading cultural change initiatives across an organisation, I blend my facilitative coaching and change management expertise to create safe spaces for deep, transformative sharing leading to new insights resulting in deepened relationships with new levels of trust. To start the process, I recommend all members engage in one or two of the several assessments I offer, including the online Systems Inspired Leadership assessment https://www.aoidosleadership.com/systems-inspired-leadership-free-assessement/

Our Signature Programs

  • Leader As Coach: Ask more. Tell Less.

    Our 3-month evidence-based blended learning / behavioural change program yielded consisted results over the 2-year-roll-out: **Karen delivered to 10+ cohorts (12-15 leaders in each) travelling across various locations in Saudi targeting key business hubs (Corporate, Abqaiq, Ras Tanura) as well as remote areas in the desert (Shaybah and Tanajib), incorporating action learning: pre- and post-assessments, interactive, engaging workshops, with application in the business (OTJ assignments), video-taped feedback, teach-backs, 1:1 and group coaching, and support throughout. (Bilingual available when Karen and Ahmed co-facilitate/co-lead).

  • Coaching Across Cultures

    An interactive, get-out-of your-comfort-zone workshop to embrace the cultural diversity across teams, incorporating the Cultural Orientation Framework (COF) and best practices from Philippe Rosinski’s research in “Coaching Across Cultures”.

  • Growth Mindset = Positive Mindset = Mental Fitness

    The 8-week PQ Group Coaching Program (includes the Mental Fitness/PQ app) partners with you to uncover your blind spots and inner critics, weaken your barriers to higher levels of performance, accelerating your mental fitness (EQ, PQ, Growth Mindset). Facilitated and coached by Karen du Four des Champs, PCC, CPCC, OSRC, COF, PQ Coach, with Shirzad Chamine, MBA (on video) Stanford lecturer, NYT best-selling author of Positive Intelligence, and founder of the PQ Program.

Our Coaching Packages

  • Executive Coaching

    1:1 in person or virtual

    Executive Coaching (becoming a Leader 2.0)

    I recommend beginning the process with one or two of the several assessments I offer.

  • Group Coaching

    GROUP COACHING is partnering with a group of individuals who share a common interest, learning experience, or desired skill where the coach and other group members offer support and inspiration to maximize individual abilities and potential. For example, a group of people may come together to be coached on effective leadership skills, but everyone has their own final performance goals for which they are being held accountable. Sizes range from 6-8; 12 is ideal. Groups meet frequently. I recommend beginning the process with one or two of the several assessments I offer.

  • Team Coaching for Intact Teams

    TEAM COACHING is partnering in a co-creative and reflective process with a team and its dynamics and relationships in a way that inspires them to maximize their abilities and potential in order to reach their common purpose and shared goals to best support their stakeholders. Team coaching coaches the team. It is not addressing leader behaviour. Each team member assesses their own EQ leadership competencies by discovering their underlying strengths by taking the Positive Intelligence Saboteur Assessment and PQ Score to gain deeper insight individually, which collectively assesses the team’s strength and identifying areas to focus and grow.

    Additionally, for those teams and organisations who wish to increase their appreciation and understanding of salient cultural characteristics completing the Cultural Orientation Framework assessment provides another layer to increase understanding, empathy, and insight.

“Karen pushed me outside of my comfort zone and made me consider perspectives, challenges or situations in ways I might not have come to naturally.”

— Alexandre Clar, Head of Group Treasury, The Zubair Corporation