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BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Karyn Trader-Leigh, Program Director of Coach Craft International

Dr. Leigh is the Program Director of Coach Craft. She is an experienced Human Capital and Talent Development leader with more than 30 years of experience supporting organizations, nurturing and advancing leaders.

Karyn is certified as a coach and international trainer by the ICC-International Coaching Community, using the Lambent methodology. She focuses on executive and leadership coaching, the design of coaching systems to support the development of emerging leaders, and coaching practices as a leadership style for high performing organizations. She is trained in Action Learning Team Coaching and certified in Integral coaching. She is passionate about the development of human capacity and  leveraging cultural and social intelligence across human interactions.

Her article Identifying Resistance in Managing Change; a case study in the U.S. State Department, has been recognized by the publisher for being downloaded globally 5000 times. She brings a breadth of experience from work with government and private sector, NGO’s and multilateral institutions, such as: IMF, United Nations, NASA, Army Research Laboratory, Foreign Service Institute (State Department), University of North Carolina (UNCA), Idaho State University (ISU), Taia Peace Foundation. She has consulted in Eastern Europe, lectured in the Peoples Republic of China, presented papers in Britain, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and The Czech Republic. Karyn has lived and worked in post-conflict environments in West Africa.

She previously served as a Director of Human Resources, Employee Relations Director, and Director of Training and Organization Development in Aerospace and IT organizations, Program Director and Researcher for the Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies and Associate Professor, Hampton University School of Business.

Karyn serves on the Board of Global Camps Africa focused on HIV Vulnerable youth in Soweto, S.A. and serves on the Board of Child Steps International, poverty reduction and development in  Liberia. She has provided pro bono coaching to Women Veterans (Officer and Enlisted) transitioning from the US ARMY and incarcerated pre-release women in Fairfax County.

Academic 

Doctorate in Organization Change, Pepperdine University,

MA, International Transactions School of Public Policy, George Mason University,

Post Graduate Organization Development Pepperdine University

Ethnic and Conflict Management Training from Central Eastern University, the Czech Republic, member of International Coaching Community (ICC), International Coach Federation (ICF), International Leadership Association (ILA) and the Institute for Coaching Professional Association (ICPA).