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Dr. Rolf Wagschal is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant and Executive Coach who has a passion for helping to build people and team cultures in ways that foster optimism, collaboration, self-awareness, and a growth mindset. Based out of Toronto, Canada, his work is focused on assisting high-performance athletes, executives, and teams succeed.

For almost 20 years, he has been involved in assisting high performance individuals and teams find unique and customized solutions to the myriad challenges they face daily from the locker room to the board room. His professional training was rather eclectic, with a graduate education that included a focus on counselling and psychology, and culminated with a PhD in Kinesiology from Temple University with a focus on Behavioural Science. He credits that combination for giving him the tools to be able to effectively consult with a consistently diverse population of clients in order to help them achieve their performance goals.

His primary professional focus has been working within sport, and over the course of his career he has worked with just about every kind of athlete one can imagine. Rolf spent 7 years working within the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Sport Institute Network (COPSIN), during which time he provided both traditional mental performance consulting services to Olympic and Paralympic athletes, in addition to overall wellness consulting as part of Game Plan – a Total Athlete Wellness program.

Building off his work in the world of elite sport, Rolf applies the lessons learned with Olympic athletes to help leaders, teams, and organizations in the corporate world excel. This has included time working within the People Advisory Service at EY, as well as private consulting work and executive coaching within the business community. Rolf is also a Team Performance Coach with the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, where he helps develop the business leaders of the future.

Rolf is a Professional Member of the Canadian Sport Psychology Association and Certified Mental Performance Consultant. He is also certified to administer the TAIS, MBTI, and FIRO-B individual assessments, and the Rocket Model Team Assessment. In his spare time he can be found spending time with his family, engaging in his hobby as an avid woodworker, or mountain biking in the Don Valley in Toronto.

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