I Specialize in Performance Excellence for business and sport
I would love to hear your story and the challenges you are facing.
The short version for the busy professional:
I began very early – My 17 year competitive career began at age 7 and included 10 years on Canada’s National Team, 5 World Championships, 3 National titles and the privilege of competing in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. I retired from competitive figure skating as Canadian Ice Dance Champion ranked 8th in the world. I have intimate experience of what it takes to achieve performance excellence.
My academic background compliments my coaching, training and consulting perfectly – My undergraduate degree in Psychology and communications (UofW), with a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology (UBC), positions me to understand human emotion and experience. I have a ready suite of tested methodologies and processes to employ, to help you achieve lasting personal development and growth.
I understand your world of business - I have been training and coaching clients like you since 2001, including some of Canada’s foremost companies and executives. I understand what it takes and the pressures and stresses you go through to meet targets, ROI hurdles and manage people.
I teach at the Smith School of Business (Queens) – Through Third Factor, a leading corporate training organization, I deliver the Coaching for Challenging Conversations for the prestigious Smith School of Business.
I remain at the leading edge of high performance thinking - I stay current with the latest thinking and research into the field of human excellence, through access to ongoing research, training, providing keynote addresses and consulting on Mental Fitness.
I live in Vancouver, Canada and travel from there, throughout North America delivering training, coaching, and keynote addresses.
““Karyn is a premier performance executive coach, teacher, facilitator, and overall purveyor of insight and wisdom. Her background as an elite athlete, extensive academic and professional experience, along with savvy yet real world business perspective makes her uniquely qualified to bridge the complexity of issues confronting leaders today”.
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Olympians Have Coaches.
shouldn't you?
You’re a high performer.
That’s why you’ve accomplished what you have. It’s also why you’re here, seeking more.
You’re a corporate athlete. A competitive athlete.
Different, but the same.
Professionals striving towards goals. You know what you want and you’re under pressure to perform.
Carrying the world of expectation and weight of responsibility.
Yours and others.
You’re not quite meeting these expectations, and getting the results you expect.
Struggling and striving and missing the mark.
I get it.
Performing is tough. Especially when it counts, in those critical moments.
To get the job done, you have to manage your own blocks and challenges.
Lead the team and negotiate the conflicts and politics.
Manage breakdowns in communication.
Prioritize your priorities.
Sustain your energy to keep progressing
And everything else…..
We’re not born knowing how to do all this. These are learnt skills. Sharpened and toughened to mastery, through training and practice.
Horizon Coaching is a niche high performance consultancy.
Its purpose:
To Help You Achieve Your Excellence.
It’s not possible to perform at the highest level without training and support, no matter your industry.
Almost anyone can perform well when things are running smoothly. It’s how well we perform under pressure that matters.
It’s how we handle the inevitable adversity and roadblocks in our lives that differentiate the successful from the rest.
This has been my life long pursuit and study.
I’m Karyn Garossino, the founder of Horizon Coaching
Training and coaching leaders in progressive thinking around performance, grounded in academic rigour, and backed by my own success at the highest level.