Dr Klenert is a dedicated career and leadership coach with over 25 years of developing leaders for the professional work setting. Her award-winning PhD coaching research focuses specifically on understanding socio-cultural barriers and enablers in an African context, and how these can be overcome or used effectively in accelerating leaders in the workplace. The approach she uses, provides contextually tailored coaching that addresses challenging intersectional barriers between personal aspirations and dynamic societal norms and traditions.  She has developed a collective coaching practice framework to address socio-cultural barriers. She is a coach practitioner and a certified systemic constellations mapping coach. She is a leadership development academic with experience of working internationally and in Zambia.

She is a Senior Lecturer in leadership development at Oxford Brookes University and teaches on postgraduate university provision on Masters and MBA programmes focusing on leadership capabilities for diverse industries. She has five years’ experience directing a university and industry mentoring programme designed to support the employability of graduates transitioning into the workplace.

Her current and past leadership roles include:

• Board Secretary – Oxford Cultural Collective Trust UK
• Past Interim Programme Lead – Oxford Brookes University UK
• Advisory Board Member/Examiner – Cesar Ritz Colleges Switzerland
• Hotel Manager – Hotel and Tourism Training Institute Trust Zambia
• Technical Adviser Irish Aid Project Zambia (capacity development)