We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Carmen Ohling. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Carmen below.

Carmen , thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

⭐VISION:

To be the one to show the world how truly great life can be.

⭐MISSION:

To significantly improve the lives of over 1 million leaders and entrepreneurs by amplifying their gifts, voices, lives, and businesses through high-level collaboration, personal growth, and learning.

Carmen Ohling has dedicated over 15 years to training, leading, and supporting individuals and corporate teams toward achieving high levels of personal and professional excellence. Diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at 25, Carmen transformed her life, eliminating self-imposed limitations, burnout, and unfulfillment.

During her corporate career, Carmen often faced burnout and overwhelm, discovering that the key to combating these issues was not simply taking time off but changing how she showed up during her time “on.” This realization spurred a decade of research, testing, coaching, and leadership, culminating in a powerful framework:

Calmness
Curiosity
Clarity
Courage
Confidence
Collaboration

This framework is built on the principle of intentional daily living without rushing and encompasses the following principles developed for the Amplified Life Company’s work with corporate clients and executives:

⭐Personal development is the foundation of dynamic leadership, meaningful relationships, optimal health, and extraordinary business outcomes.

⭐You can only reach your dreams and goals to the level your body can sustain.

⭐Disciplines and systems are the keys to the freedom you seek in your life.

⭐The primary barrier to your next level of success is your current level of success.

⭐Your network is your net worth; it begins where your skillset ends and is the catalyst for your next level.

Over the years, Carmen and the Amplified Life Team have discovered that solutions to both personal and professional challenges often start with self-reflection. Each new season of life and each new level of success, fulfillment, and character-building require continuous personal development.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

We break our work down into three areas:

1️⃣Workplace Development,
2️⃣1-1 Coaching
3️⃣Speaking.

While each of these complements the other, and often works in tandem there are three main challenges we help solve in each of the areas.

1️⃣Workplace Development

Challenge: Employee Burnout and Overwhelm

Solution: We provide strategies and frameworks to help employees manage stress, avoid burnout, and improve overall well-being. This includes workshops and training sessions focused on stress management, resilience building, and creating a healthy work-life integration.

Impact: Reducing burnout and overwhelm leads to increased productivity, higher employee satisfaction, and lower turnover rates.

Challenge: Lacking Leadership Skills

Solution: We deliver leadership training programs that focus on developing essential leadership qualities such as emotional intelligence, charismatic communication, and transformational leadership behaviors. These programs are designed to enhance the leadership skills of executives and managers, enabling them to lead their teams more effectively.

Impact: Improved leadership results in better team performance, more effective decision-making, and a stronger organizational culture.

Challenge: Lacking a compelling vision or positive culture

Solution: Through our signature frameworks and principles, we guide companies to co-create a positive and supportive organizational culture. This involves fostering strong relationships, promoting collaboration, and encouraging personal and professional growth among employees.

Impact: A positive culture enhances employee engagement, promotes innovation, and contributes to the overall success and sustainability of the organization.

2️⃣1-1 Coaching Clients

Challenge: Lacking the self-awareness and skills to get to the next level of growth desired

Solution: One-on-one coaching sessions focus on personal growth, helping clients overcome self-imposed limitations and achieve their full potential. This includes developing high-performance habits, gaining clarity, working through personal challenges, and developing the skills necessary to become an even more dynamic leader.

Impact: Clients experience greater self-awareness, increased confidence, and improved personal fulfillment so that they can show up as their highest and best each day with the teams that they lead.

Challenge: Overworked and overcommitted

Solution: Coaching clients receive guidance on managing their time and energy effectively to achieve a better integration of their personal and professional lives for their current season of life. Techniques include energy management, boundary setting, gaining clarity, and creating sustainable routines.

Impact: Improved work-life integration leads to better mental and physical health, more fulfilling personal relationships, and sustained professional performance.

Challenge: Feeling stuck in a current role or success level

Solution: Coaching sessions provide clients with strategies and support to advance their careers. This includes leadership development, skill enhancement, and navigating career transitions.

Impact: Clients achieve their career goals, gain promotions, and develop into more effective and impactful leaders.

3️⃣Keynote Speaker

Challenge: Attendees leave inspired but lose motivation a few days after an event

Solution: Through Carmen’s keynote speeches, she not only inspires audiences but motivates them into action through dynamic storytelling and providing actionable insights. Her stories and experiences resonate with listeners, encouraging them to pursue their own goals with determination and resilience. Whether it’s about leadership, personal development, or managing stress, she provides actionable advice that participants can use to improve their lives and careers.

Impact: Audiences leave feeling seen, heard, and energized, with a plan to take action in their personal and professional lives right away. Attendees gain valuable knowledge and skills that lead to tangible improvements in their work and personal lives.

Challenge: Attendee engagement is low due to a fixed mindset

Solution: Carmen emphasizes the importance of a growth mindset in her speeches, encouraging audiences to embrace challenges, learn from failures, and continually strive for improvement. She provides frameworks and principles that help individuals develop this mindset.

Impact: Promoting a growth mindset leads to a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and resilience within organizations and among individuals.

We empower teams, individuals, and audiences with high-performance-based training experiences, guiding them to greater self-awareness, resilience, team cohesiveness, and adaptability to change. Fostering a deep culture of high performance and innovation. We love helping companies bridge the gap between key leaders and emerging leaders too!

Any thoughts, advice, or strategies you can share for fostering brand loyalty?

We are committed to going the extra mile with each client and prospective client. We pride ourselves on taking an unreasonable level of excellence to the client experience.

A few of the key elements we focus on are as follows:

1. We take our time. We don’t rush the sales process or relationship-building process. We want to truly understand the needs of our clients, and we want them to be value-aligned with our company. This means it may take a few months from our first initial conversation to the solutions delivery and we are happy to be on this journey with each client.

2. Internally, we have the systems, disciplines, and processes in place to work from a place of high energy and expertise, truly “practicing what we preach” and are a living breathing example of the work that we do. We have an internal culture of excellence, collaboration, and growth.

3. Lastly, we deliver. We are experts in our field, and we don’t try to go outside of that scope. We add the little touches that other companies overlook, and we always are learning, growing, and getting better in our delivery, solutions, communication, and teamwork. Time and time again our clients tell us they are in awe of our collaborative approach, and the fact that we do not compromise our values.

What’s worked well for you in terms of a source for new clients?

In-person events and speaking; there’s truly nothing like it! Speaking from the stage and being in the energy of aliveness at events is the number one way that we connect with new clients. Being with us in person allows prospective clients to see firsthand how we can impact their lives and in turn, their teams.

Each year host an annual event, The Amplified Life Growth Summit, multiple in-person workshops, and are hired to host live corporate retreats and training events.

This year’s Growth Summit is happening September 20-21 2024 in Bend, Oregon and you can join us by going to https://carmenohling.com/amplify-your-life-world-conference/ or texting the word “amplify” to 503-386-2981.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://carmenohling.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carmenohling/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarmenOhling
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmen-ohling/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4FRaMdekPgWJjNHLe5RijA
• Other: Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-amplified-life-podcast-with-carmen-ohling/id1522511028

  Amplify Your Life Growth Summit: https://carmenohling.com/amplify-your-life-world-conference/

  Superpower Quiz: https://carmenohling.com/superpower/

  Daily Inspiration: text “inspire” to 503-386-2981