The team
Two coaches, two backgrounds — education and software — and one shared passion for Argentine Tango.
Karin Butt
Building upon more than thirty years of experience in teaching, Karin is our expert in teaching, organising educational institutions and coaching teachers. She led several elementary schools in Germany, where she was responsible for directing and coordinating educational, administrative and counselling activities.
Her areas of work include the development and evaluation of educational programmes to ensure conformance to state and school-board standards, as well as working with teachers on improving their performance and with students and parents on educational and behavioural issues. In the past she supported and monitored exchange programmes between universities and other educational organisations in the UK and in Germany.
An eye-opening experience that changed her way of motivating people was a seminar on Inner Game Coaching with Christian Maier. Through her interest in tango music she has also become an enthusiastic tango dancer, which influences her view of life and work in the way Ricardo Vidort put it: “When you dance tango, you must give everything. If you can't do that, don't dance!”
Shamsuddin Butt
Starting out as a psychologist, Shamsuddin spent more than thirty years in the software business.
Having seen many projects and having held leadership roles as project manager, head of development, coach to heads of development and start-up company director, he is familiar with the difficult task of leadership, especially in the rapidly changing software industry.
A Postgraduate Certificate in Coaching and Development, where he learned from British coaches such as Sue Slocombe and Charles Brook, added to his psychological skills and provided many new insights. His passion for Argentine Tango made him think about using its subtle wisdom about human contact for people-oriented work off the dance floor.