Karen V. Bading

 

 

 

Karen V. Bading is a trainer and consultant for Nordic Training Internatinal (NTI) since 2003. She also created Infrasonics Coaching and Consulting to develop business leaders who want to expand their definition of good work and lead satisfying, balanced lives; leaders who, in the words of Peter Senge, "think with their hearts and feel with their minds".

 

Karen is a certified trainer of TimeMentor and MERKIS simulation products. She also delivers different NTI Management courses. Karen is a certified ontological coach with Newfield Network, a certified Syntax Consultant, and a trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. She speaks nationally on a variety of topics including storytelling for leadership and change. Karen has 30 years experience with learning and change in both public and private sectors. Clients include Agilent Technologies, EDS, Rockwell-Collins, Hewlett-Packard, MCI, and the Los Angles Educational Partnership.

 

Karen has always been fascinated with the stories of individuals and organizations: how things are and how they got to be that way. Most of all, she listens for how the story could come out better, for possibilities even more effective, collaborative, fair and satisfying. Including not just words, but also movement, energy and emotions, Karen’s coaching, designed learning, and large and small group facilitation all aim to shift the story to bring out the best in individuals and organizations.

Fast paced and funny one moment, heart centered and quiet the next, and always in formed by a quick intelligence, Karen delights in moving individuals and groups past their perceived limits into new stories of achievement and satisfaction.

Karen has a Bachelor’s Degree in English (stories), a Master’s Degree in Counseling (more stories), certification in NLP and Syntax (changing the stories). She is currently working toward Newfield Network certification in Coaching for Personal and Professional Mastery (changing the storyteller and the story).