Carola Hjelt
Carola's journey to becoming a professional coach, trainer, and facilitator has been built through thousands of encounters with leaders and specialists. Her understanding of the importance of excellent leadership, the means to promote it, and the significance of putting it into practice has deepened with each of these encounters.
Carola has a strong belief in the potential and abilities inherent in every individual, and this belief in people's capabilities and good intentions guides her work. Carola’s specialty lies in building trust, whether between two individuals or within larger groups, enabling faster and deeper collaboration.
MAIN AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Business and Executive Coaching
- Coaching Supervision
- Facilitation
- Leadership and Supervisor Development
- Team and Teamwork Development
- Coaching and Building a Coaching Culture
”I really appreciated Carola's warm approach where she created a safe environment for me to openly take advantage of the coaching process. Through her questions and guidance during the process I was able to tackle many different topics which I reflected on and then applied directly into my work.”
CAROLA'S BACKGROUND
Carola has spent her long career working internationally, and her interest in human growth and development has guided her from leadership roles to the field of leadership development.
Working in large organizations has also provided Carola with expertise in organizational development, especially in creating a coaching culture. Since 2019, Carola has been working as an entrepreneur and has operated across various industries, in both the public and private sectors as well as the third sector.
Carola has been on her coaching path since 2012 and is an internationally certified professional coach, who also works as a mentor coach and coaching supervisor. In addition, Carola has trained coaching skills for new coaches preparing for certification.
Carola's way of working is people-centered, encouraging, and empowering. She has a gentle and secure way of helping her clients remove their masks and openly face their challenges. Carola's mission in working life is to make the world a better place by promoting excellent leadership and holistic well-being. In everything she does, she brings joy, warmth, balance, and harmony.
Carola's mission at work is to make the world a better place by promoting excellent leadership and holistic well-being. In everything she does, she brings joy, warmth, balance and harmony.
Examples of Carola's recent assignments:
- Energy sector: Individual coaching process for an executive team member
- Public sector: Group coaching process for experienced leaders
- Financial sector: Leadership coaching for an international group of leaders
- Public sector: Group coaching process to enhance cooperation and team spirit
- IT sector: Individual coaching process for an executive team member
- Coaching Supervision: Supervision process for an experienced professional coach
TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS
- MBA, Henley Business School, 2000
- Professional Certificate of Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision, Oxford Brookes Business School, 2024
- EMCC EIA (Coaching, Senior Practitioner), 2022
- WorkPlace Big Five Certificate, WorkPlace Nordic, 2021
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC), International Coaching Federation, 2020
- Certified Business Coach Master, Business Coaching Institute, 2020
- Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Master, VM training, 2015
- Certificate of Coaching Skills, Neuro Leadership Group, 2012