Om Jeff Staggs og Karen Humle

Jeff Staggs
Jeff Staggs, MCC, is President of Business Coaching International and a Master Certified Coach by the International Coaches Federation. He is also an NLP Master Practitioner and has a background in clinical psychology.

A professional coach for the last twenty-one years, Jeff has continued to refine and develop his two areas of passion in coaching: Working with senior executive leadership, and training and mentoring coaches.

Jeff specializes in coaching senior executives and their teams, both in the U.S. and internationally. He has designed and delivered individual and group coaching programs and team building to Fortune 500 clients both in the U.S. and internationally. In addition to his work with executives Jeff works with professionals who want to create more fulfillment, sustainability, and success in their lives using the Better Way to Live & Work program™.

Besides his business practice, Jeff is passionate about training and supervising coaches. Jeff has been a leader in the field of coaching and is a founding member of the International Coaches Federation and the Minnesota Coaches Association. He is an ICF Assessor and was also active on the team responsible for writing the ICF credentialing standards and more recently, the MCC examination process. He has supervised well over a hundred coaches in both the US and internationally and has trained numerous coaches as a staff member for the Coaches Training Institute and through NLP coaching programs in the US & UK. He was also the chair of the 2008 ICF Conference in Montreal Canada.
Jeff designed and delivered the first coaching program to be fully integrated into an MBA program for Capella University and has a patent pending for his work. He is the co-designer of Breakthrough Coaching and Feedback an innovative training program that gives executives and managers practical skills for developing people and creating results through others. He is also the principle author of A Better Way to Live & Work™ – a coaching program designed to empower Professionals to re-create their lives and work from the inside out.

Jeff lives in Minneapolis Minnesota with his two boys, Wyatt & Rowan and numerous pets. Beside his passion for coaching and spending time with his family, Jeff loves cooking, canoeing, expressing his Nordic heritage through cross-country ski racing, and spending as much time in the wilderness as he can.

Karen Humle
Violinist Karen Humle is educated at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and has studied in London and Berlin.

Karen has previously worked in several of the major Danish orchestras – including 10 years in the Royal Danish Orchestra at The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.

Some years ago she began working with a new form of classical improvisation, and this led to a radical change in her work.
Karen uses intuitive improvisation to create a musical image that reflects the multiple layers of a given situation, of words and processes or simply the prevailing atmosphere and she calls this: Musical portraits.

This is a unique way to express or characterize the essence and values of a person, a group or an organization. The Musical Portrait offers a platform for unthreatening and acceptable feedback or analysis and as such may serve as a catalyst for personal, social or organisational change.

Karen founded Violinconsult in 2006 and thereby created a new approach to how people and businesses can work with inspiration, innovation, development and change. Today, Karen Humle still works as a violinist, and she has recently released the CD “Intentions – Improvisation for Violin and Piano” with pianist Ulrich Staerk. She is also an artistic associate at The Centre for Art and Leadership at The Copenhagen Business School (CBS)

Karen lives with her husband Frederik, who is a doctor, and their three boys in the northern part of Copenhagen. Besides spending time with her family Karen loves gardening and studying esoteric philosophy.

You can read more about Karen at www.violinconsult.dk