Maja Karlsson

Maja Karlsson

A leader who aspires to live a simple and joy-filled life, Maja is passionate about supporting her clients to achieve the same. She understands firsthand the chaos and overwhelm that organizations and personal lives can bring. With Maja’s guidance, you will not only create clarity but also alleviate the disarray caused by too much chaos, pressure, and commitment. When you partner with Maja, you’ll learn to work smarter, not harder, and create space to honor your whole self – not just the part that shows up at work every day.

Based in Kelowna, British Columbia, Maja specializes in helping leaders navigate through complex challenges. Drawing from her extensive experience leading complex teams and projects during the COVID-19 pandemic, she offers practical strategies to overcome obstacles and thrive in turbulent times. Having experienced and successfully recovered from burnout herself, Maja brings a deep understanding of the toll high-pressure environments can take on individuals. She guides her clients to prevent burnout, foster resilience, and achieve sustainable peak performance.

Maja anchors her coaching in the concept of Emotional Intelligence, recognizing the profound difference it makes in leadership effectiveness. With her guidance, leaders develop the emotional intelligence necessary to excel in today’s dynamic business landscape. Maja’s coaching approach empowers leaders to leave behind limiting patterns and embrace their personal greatness.

A Registered Dietitian with a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership and certification as a Professional Co-Active Coach (accredited as a PCC through the International Coaches Federation), Maja brings a diverse skill set to her coaching practice. Her years of experience working in large organizations and the non-profit sector, leading teams, and creating innovative programs have honed her ability to navigate complexity and drive meaningful results.

Clients describe Maja as thoughtful, perceptive, and authentic, valuing her ability to ask the right questions at the right time. Her goal is to create a safe and trusting environment that supports clients to be both courageous and vulnerable as they envision and move towards their best selves.

Don’t wait. Connect with Maja today and imagine the possibilities.

Tidbits About Me
  1. Loves to scuba dive and has seen seahorses, dolphins, sharks and manta rays
  2. Believes in the importance of family and cherishes time with her daughters – two amazingly unique individuals
  3. Has played Ultimate Frisbee for years and found her true love doing so
  4. Lived, studied and worked in Sweden for a couple of years
  5. Is passionate about travel; first trip abroad at age 2, then backpacking through 21 countries on 3 continents
  6. Loves to watercolour paint
  7. Enjoys watching her garden produce…though she is often surprised by what happens!
  8. Loves making jam and giving it away
  9. Is passionate about promoting good health and healthy eating, which means to her, eating food as close to the grower as possible and processing as little as possible
  10. Loves dark chocolate and anything made with dark chocolate
  11. Believes in the healing power of homemade soup – any kind
  12. Had a Social Determinants of Health focus in her Master’s Thesis
  13. Follows the philosophy of “leading from behind”
  14. Reads voraciously!
  15. Has an fantastically supportive husband
  16. Grew up on a Christmas Tree Farm
  17. Loves to do complicated puzzles and digital scrapbooking
  18. Had a life changing experience on a tiny fishing boat on Inle Lake in Myanmar (Burma)
  19. Loves to laugh and spend time with good friends
  20. Believes in sustainability through local food supplies, energy efficient choices and supporting local economies
  21. Was a Certified Diabetes Educator for 10 years, supporting children and adults to successfully manage their chronic condition(s)

Maja also loves life-coaching and has her own life coaching business. If coaching isn’t supported by your organization, and you don’t need corporate integration, but are looking for great coaching that fits a household budget visit: Maja T. Karlsson

Tools Maja Uses
Assessments
Behavioural Profiles
  • DISC
  • EQi
360
  • EQ360
  • SIGMA Radius

Before Maja and I began working together, I was ‘reactive’ and task-oriented. Through coaching, I now see the importance of consciously visualizing outcomes, how to tackle complex, multi-faceted projects with more success and have much better clarity on who I am as a leader. What I found really beneficial about this process was that it was scheduled time for reflection, discussion, discovering new ideas and perspectives and goal setting. I would not have focused in this way on my own.

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