Professional Affiliations:

Owner, Stelfox Performance Consulting

Biography: 

Kara is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant® (CMPC) and a former competitive athlete in sprint kayaking, wrestling, and several other sports. Kara offers mental skills training and biofeedback training for performance enhancement in sport and business.

Sports in which Kara has worked include hockey, Olympic freestyle wrestling, sprint kayaking, ringette, squash, soccer, equestrian, synchronized swimming, and Olympic lifting. The athletes Kara has worked with ranged from the youth provincial level to the World Cup and Olympic levels.

As a corporate trainer with Third Factor Inc., Kara spent 5 years facilitating numerous workshops on building personal resilience in the workplace to business audiences in Canada, the U.S., and England.

Overall, Kara's aim is to help her clients gain an edge by building their self-awareness and improving skills such as focus, emotion regulation (e.g., performance anxiety), effective debriefing, motivation, and dealing with setbacks. Kara believes that people achieve their best performances by consciously connecting with each step of the performance process, and her primary objective is to help her clients live closer to their potential every day!

Additional Training:

Biofeedback practitioner (trained through coursework offered by the Biofeedback Foundation of Europe), completed mindfulness teacher training through the "Foundations of Mindfulness Interventions & the M4 Program" course at the Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic

Language(s): 

 English, French