dr. Karine rashkovsky

Award-winning solopreneur, speaker, and executive coach.

Communication Excellence

Presenting and interviewing as a leader: Building your presence, persuasion skills, and the ability to inspire.

Health & Wellness

Achieve balance while optimizing your health, healthspan, fitness, and aesthetics.

Establishing Meaning

Find/re-negotiate your purpose, achieve flow, and master your neuroplasticity.

Proud to have worked with:

Turn purpose into prosperity.

Dr. Karine Rashkovsky, PhD. is a seasoned, sought-after advisor, speaker, executive coach and career facilitator. She brings passion, professionalism, theory and practice to her coaching: motivating, inspiring, and enlightening her clients. Pursue your excellence in: communication, wellness, and purpose with Karine’s expert guidance.

Academic degrees and certification: 

  • PhD in Education Policy, a Masters in Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning (OISE, UofT)
  • ICF (International Coaching Federation – the gold standard of professional coaching) accreditation certificate.

Karine is also a senior research associate with York University’s Faculty of Education, currently part of an award-winning SSHRC Insight Grant team on educational policies, protocols, and practices (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada)

A good coach can change your career. A great coach can change your life.

How it works.

Karine’s Executive Coaching rests on a holistic trifecta of pillars: communication excellencehealth & wellness, and establishing meaning. Receive professional coaching and development in one or more of these areas. Looking for an event speaker? Hire Karine to speak, MC, keynote, or join a panel.

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Make an inquiry

Fill out the form below and let Karine know if you're looking for support for a team, your business, or yourself, and/or hire Karine to speak at your event.

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Complimentary Consultation Session

Before getting started, you will undergo a complimentary consultation with Karine to design the working partnership and establish objectives.

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Face-to-face or virtual coaching sessions

Frequency and duration of sessions and program determined in the "Discovery Coaching Session"

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Live your best self!

Post-completion: come away with clarity and confidence in your professional and personal life.

A little more about Karine.

Dr. Karine Rashkovsky’s career as an award-winning entrepreneur, educator, and speaker spans nearly two decades. Complimenting her private-sector success is her long-standing impactful contributions in the academic, NFP, and public arenas. After a successful eight-figure exit from her first venture, Karine has dedicated herself to helping other leaders realize their potential through her signature holistic-executive coaching approach.  

 
Karine’s passion for people’s development and wellbeing uniquely catalyzes and empowers leadership transformation for executives, managers, business owners, teams, up-and-coming talent, and academics. Her measurable-results approach focuses on three foundational pillars of achievement: 
Pillar 1
Communication Excellence
You can walk the walk but can you talk the talk
Many people have the know-how (ex. expert computer scientists, brilliant engineers, fantastic accountants) and their skills, knowledge, and talents allow them to truly “walk the walk”… but in our competitive world that is not enough to get recognized, move ahead, and achieve success; indeed, being able to speak so people listen and affect change is what makes or breaks people’s personal and career aspirations. Karine’s coaching produces effective, persuasive, and successful communicators – at work and beyond.
 
‘The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.’ —  George Bernard Shaw
  • Gain the skills, techniques, and confidence to master and perform well at any presentation, interview, networking event, negotiation, and pitch.
  • Improve your abilities on stage, in the boardroom, with subordinates, with superiors, and in formal or informal settings (in-person, online, groups, and 1-1).
  • Manage first impressions, build your confidence, build your relationships, and make lasting positive impressions.
  • Learn the art and science of persuasion and human psychology.
  • Receive guidance through the neuroscience behind public speaking success.
  • Written communication support and editing for presentations and graduate/post-graduate applications available.
  • Gain the skills, techniques and confidence to create your own effective communication style OR reduce an accent, integrate culturally-appropriate humour and wit, and be an inspiration to others.
  • Learn how to apply key learnings from the science of brain plasticity and neurolinguistics to your speaking toolbox. Boost your charm!
  • Receive in-depth assessment and re-assessment tools, progress reports, and personalized reviews.
  • Review your before-and-after recordings with coach-guided, fine-grain detailed analyses; step-by-step personalized improvement instructions and follow-up tools provided.
  • Gain access to excellent resources and cutting edge toolkits to continue your learning, progress, and mastery (top notch books, leading podcasts, apex peer-reviewed science journals, practice exercises, and summaries as needed). 
Pillar 2
Health & Wellness
Physical wellbeing and mental health are essential to success. After all, health is wealth, right? Many executives work around the clock and relegate body and mind to the “to do later” list (a list that may not ever get the attention it deserves). Karine has spent years building up research-backed plans, programs, and resources to provide clients with successful shortcuts and life-hacks to wellness. She makes it easier for you to have it all: success and health & wellness.
 
‘Mens sana in corpore sano’ — a healthy mind in a healthy body (Roman poet, Juvenal).
Benefit from personalized and curated delivery of cutting-edge longevity studies and science research that support significant evidence for particular regimens you need:
  • Anti-aging habits (ie. diet, sunlight, exercise, sleep, supplementation + more)
  • Anti-aging boosts and lifestyle changes (ie. oxygen therapy, red-light therapy + more)
  • Health testing and tracking for personalized, data-driven baseline identification and improvement opportunities (ie. genomics, pharmacogenetics, biological “age” clock, VO2 max, DEXA bodyscan + more)
  • Disease prevention and abatement: reducing inflammation, boosting immune system function, ‘What to insist your doctor tests you for that you may not know to ask’ (bloodwork, genetic screening + more)
  • Science-based regimens to look your best: curated science-backed products and protocols
  • Meal-plans, tracking, and what you eat vs. when you eat (ex. Leangains/IF, macros tracking, LCHF, Warrior Diet — choosing what’s right for you)
  • Hormone optimization (men and women)
  • Skin and hair: wellness and beauty (PRP, PCI percutaneous collagen induction therapy & MN, sun-damage reversal, etc.)
  • Muscle, tone, and strength improvement and maintenance (sport and exercise for longevity vs. performance)
  • Improving one’s golden ratio (research shows physical appearance affects career success)
Pillar 3
Establishing Meaning
Work with Karine to establish/re-establish your purpose and refresh your zest for meaning-making in your life – whether it be in career, academics, or personal. Figure out your superpower and gain your GPS for life. Receive guidance on achieving your ikigai 生き甲斐: life purpose, motivation, or finding joy through purpose. Your ikigai may change over time, so it is important to re-evaluate it from time to time and nurture the neuroplasticity required to get your goals met and experience flow.
 
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche.
  • Work through exercises that nurture your neuroplasticity and foster permanent life changes
  • Learn about the power (and science) of discomfort and how to harness it to maximize well-being
  • Learn the science (theory and practice) behind successful habit-forming practices and receive guidance in establishing your own success-driven habits.
  • Foster a growth mindset and bolster productivity and goal achievement through neuroscience-backed strategies.
  • Identify your blind-spots and rewire your brain away from that which hasn’t served you well.
  • Understand existentialism (to be is to do) and the need for action as the lynchpin of happiness
  • Achieve psychological states of flow that lead to everyday tasks becoming exceptional
  • Improve global life satisfaction and positive psychological functioning
  • Attain a deep understanding of ikigai, flow state, and personal best
  • Be guided through valuable exercises that help you design and define personal perspective.  
If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you. Prepare to be challenged.

Recognition

Why you'll love working with Karine.

“I’ve worked closely with Dr. Karine Rashkovsky over multiple years – on both her and my academic and teaching projects – and the experience has been transformational each time. In addition to her contributions to presentations and speaking engagements, team research projects and grants, Karine has also been most helpful with health and well being recommendations that have proven to be incredibly beneficial to me, making a visible difference in my quality of life. Karine is a highly perceptive, resourceful, knowledgeable, and insightful individual:  she thinks creatively, and her foresight regarding professional work environments is uncanny. I have found that Karine brings kindness and commitment to all she does: she goes the extra mile without being asked and she makes people feel comfortable, supported, and inspired. In short, she is a consummate professional and would be a 100% valuable asset to have by your side as an executive coach!”

Dr. Sandra Schecter

Professor, York University

“Dr. Karine Rashkovsky has been serving the City of Vaughan for over two decades as an award-winning educator, business leader, policy academic, and volunteer. Having a mentor like Karine is important, she is an individual you can count on and who brings integrity to all she does. Her work is of the highest distinction and excellence – she has been recognized by and honoured with the Order of Vaughan Award for her contributions to the city and her commitment to positive change in people’s lives and in shaping Canada’s future.”

Maurizio Bevilacqua

Mayor of Vaughan

“As an entrepreneur I am so fortunate to have had Karine’s coaching to make me a better public speaker. She has an incredible gift for teaching complex topics of communication and with her help, I was able to successfully navigate pitch meetings and negotiations for my tech startup, the Society App. As someone who routinely speaks in front of large audiences as the Interfraternity Council President of UCLA, I am always grateful to lean on Karine’s wealth of knowledge to help me in any situation.”

Ernst Ma

President UCLA Interfraternity Council, Head of North America at Society® App, William F. Sharpe Fellow

“I have had the pleasure of working with Karine for over eight years. Hands down, Karine has had the greatest impact on my career achievements and successes in life. As someone who has been fortunate enough to have numerous interviews with Ivy league university graduate programs – programs requiring numerous and rigorous interview stages – I felt a lot of credit was owed to Karine when I was accepted to many of these prestigious programs. Her enthusiasm as an advisor, her knowledge of human behaviour and psychology, and her attentiveness to detail while coaching me 1-1 make her mentorship so incredibly valuable. She has also significantly helped me increase my confidence as a speaker overall. Thanks to Karine’s practical and helpful recommendations, her patience, and her wealth of knowledge and experience, she has helped me reach an incredible level of comfort with presentations, empathy-oriented negotiation, speeches, and interviews. Perhaps most importantly, Karine notices areas that need growth with laser-sharp precision, her assessments are spot-on, and she is supportive in her approach with me when working to polish up and refine these areas to the highest level.

I consider myself very lucky to have had the wonderful opportunity to be coached by Karine!”

Emily Kapustin

Chancellor’s Scholar and Research Executive

Karine with Jay Heinrichs
Dr. Karine Rashkovsky hosted New York Times bestselling author Jay Heinrichs - best known for his award-winning book Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion. The book has been published in 14 languages and four editions with more than 500,000 copies in print; it’s one of the top ten books assigned at Harvard.
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Let's get in touch.

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“In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.” – Lewis Carroll

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