Meet the Magenta Coaches
Louisa Barnum
As a resource, coach and teacher I work primarily with senior leaders and management in an organization or business. I specialize in people — and particularly their inner growth. I believe that when you unlock and free your people via better knowledge and capabilities, your business will survive and thrive even with the increasing economic pressures and social fragmentation you’re facing in the business world.
Indeed, its the only thing that is going to see you through.
Business is people. Not nature, not systems; definitely not force of habit. Specifically, its how people think. Everything flows from there, both the good and the bad.
If you can transform how you and your people think, you have the key to transforming your business outcomes.
I am a former professional classical musician (violin and voice). The lessons I learned from the intense discipline of practice and constant performance both as an instrumentalist and vocalist gives me a highly unusual but practical knowledge of how capacity is systematically built.
I have been coaching leaders for more than 15 years. During my coaching training with the International Coaching Academy in 2007 I started working with leaders and their teams. In 2013 I co-founded Magenta Studios, a consultancy and training company with my husband Jeff Barnum running multi-stakeholder social change projects around the world, as well as with businesses working to improve their culture and develop a broader impact in line with their mission. In 2021 Rachel Hazlett-karr joined Magenta, Jeff Barnum stepped back to focus on being a full-time artist, and we changed the name to Magenta FM. Rachel and I built a podcast and created numerous courses together. Even though she has also stepped back from the day to day at Magenta to pursue her career in real estate and raise her children, she is available for coaching. I highly recommend her as a coach!
These days I am part of a globally based research team on developing cultural and social renewal work in business contexts inspired by Rudolf Steiner's indications about a three-folding society. Bringing culture to life in business is my way of helping the world.
I have been a serious meditant and student of Anthroposophy for 30 years. This is the true source of my understanding of what human beings are, and what growth and transformation looks like practically. This study, practice, and the very special teachers along the way (Rudolf Steiner, Dennis Klocek, Georg Kuhlewind, Valentin Tomberg, among others), have helped me create everything I bring to my clients and in my writing. I owe my unique perspectives and teachings to them.
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Rachel Hazlett-Karr
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Hello, I’m Rachel. I am an entrepreneur, real estate agent, business leader, and general go-getter. I have done a lot of healing, inner work, and spiritual growth to overcome intense adversity that I faced when I was young. Now, I help leaders or aspiring leaders or entrepreneurs, like you, grow toward your potential, your vision, and your goals.
When I was working to become a leader and bring my big ideas to life, the hardest obstacles weren’t getting funding or perfecting my idea… the biggest challenge was wrestling with inner issues like lack of confidence, avoidance of certain tasks (i.e. procrastination), communicating in indirect ways, and fear of rejection or failure.
I began a serious journey of inner work and spiritual practice. Through this first-person transformation and deep study of consciousness, Zen, and esoteric Christianity, I have learned a great deal about the nature of the human being, and about healing. And I am still learning, every day, how to become freer, more empowered, and ultimately, more loving. But I now understand much better how to navigate my weaknesses and wounds and find redemption in even the most unfortunate (i.e. pathetic or ugly) parts of myself.
At Magenta we have developed practical tools to help leaders learn how to navigate their own inner terrain so that they are not swimming in confusion or helplessness or self-hatred.
These tools come out of our personal experiences and the spiritual traditions we have studied and worked in. The only way that I’ve been able to heal and transform difficulties ranging from intense trauma to deeply engrained patterns has necessitated a spiritual worldview. Given that my approach is best suited for leaders (or aspiring leaders) who have a spiritual worldview or are open to the idea of God or a higher power at play in the universe.
My focus is on your goals, your vision, and your highest potential. I would love to help you learn how to unpack the limiting mindsets and old habits that are keeping you stuck and help you take your power back in your life. The world needs each one of us living our purpose!
