Rachel is a fantastic coach and has had great impact on my management style. I found her coaching style highly enjoyable as she asks questions that encourage thinking. I’ve since tried to adopt her methods and it’s proving a very efficient way of fostering development in my team. She helped me focus on my strengths as a manager and showed me how to utilize those strengths to bring out the best in my team members. Thanks Rachel, I hope we get to work together again.

Before working with Rachel I really struggled with time management. No matter what I tried I couldn’t find a way to prioritize my tasks in an effective and efficient way. I was able to accomplish everything at work that I needed to, however it came at the cost of long hours, and time away from home and family. After working with Rachel, I have the tools to prioritize my tasks in a real way, and actually plan and manage my time. Additionally she has helped me take a hard look at how I am developing the people that report to me.   Her insight and mentoring has also helped me improve as a coach and mentor for my people. Being able to effectively and efficiently manage my time, and lead my team, has allowed me to be more productive and have more impact at work, in less time. This gives me more time at home with my family, and has enabled me to volunteer more. Anyone looking to develop and grow him or herself would be well served by working with Rachel Karu. She is an excellent professional mentor in my opinion. She has helped me get on a road to becoming a better leader, direct report, father, husband, mason, Shriner, and a better man in general.

Rachel has been instrumental in me gaining a better awareness of myself and has guided me in my professional development. She has a pure, honest approach in wanting to see those that she coaches succeed.  She brings a genuineness that makes coaching comfortable.  Rachel’s humor brings moments of joy and clarity during the process. I believe that her involvement in my growth is evident by the strengthening of my team. 

I was a client of Rachel’s and found her approach to Manager Development to be very unique. Her style was unconventional, out-of-the-box and overall really effective – she was promoting of a very honest and critical atmosphere that made the time worthwhile, to-the-point and enjoyable. I can say with confidence that I’m better at my job, and better aligned to excel in my career, because of Rachel.

Thank you, Rachel. I am truly grateful for having had the opportunity to work with you in the past six months. While your role was primarily addressing my professional development, it is evident that your approach to coaching inevitably works in a holistic way on the whole person. Your coaching and feedback has been very helpful and I believe I am better for it. I am not only “doing” things better, but I feel that I am ‘being’ better as well. In the past three months I have achieved results at work that are without precedent. I have also received many positive comments about the way I am addressing challenges, and how I communicate key issues. I appreciated the fact that your approach, while quite clearly honed by many years of experience, was not a “cookie-cutter” approach, but well tailored to my specific needs. You challenged me and pushed me just the right way, and gave me simple but effective tools to work with. Thank you again! 

Rachel brought me to a whole new level of self-awareness.  With patience and compassion, she guided me toward greater understanding of my motivations and ways of relating to others.  She helped me fully embrace constructive feedback from colleagues and use it to hone my performance—and feel more whole in the process.  What an asset she has been to our agency! 

Rachel is a gifted coach with a keen sensitivity and understanding of her clients’ needs. Her wise, gentle, yet directed style has supported my professional and personal growth through the years.  I’m blessed that I have Rachel alongside me in this journey called life.

I really enjoyed attending “The Outstanding Administrative Professionals” course taught by Rachel Karu. The modules and workshop were so nicely structured and streamlined, full of developmental insight and tools – and they were fun too. In fact, we got so busy that before we knew it, the workshop was over. Rachel exposed us to these tools to use in our daily, routine lives and woke us up! The skills I learned were empowering and I’m applying them at work and at home as well.I hope Rachel returns so that those who were unable to sign up for the course can do so to enhance not only their administrative skills, but their personal lives too.

As an HR Manager, I am trained to listen, solve the conflicts of others, and create a motivating environment for our employees. Rachel worked with me to identify my career and personal goals, learn how to integrate those goals into my current position, and most importantly, how to satisfy my own values to create a positive work balance environment. The coaching experience opened my eyes to the areas in my professional and personal life that needed more attention in order for me to be fulfilled. The experience also brought to light ways I could better manage my own team, my boss, and colleagues by changing to focus of change to myself rather than trying to change others. 

Working with Rachel has helped me become more focused in every aspect of my life.  Through Rachel’s guidance, I have been able to determine what’s really important to me by defining my values and keeping those values in mind as the guiding principles in my life. I’ve always been a hard working and highly driven individual with high expectations of myself and others.  I’ve realized that my expectations were often too high and at times very unrealistic. Rachel has helped me work smarter and not necessarily harder by guiding me to focus on what’s really important and meaningful to me. I’ve developed a foundation for personal and professional effectiveness and am now able to achieve greater balance between work, leisure, significant other, family, friends, and the other priorities in my life. I am now more satisfied with my life as a whole. As a result of working with Rachel, I truly feel that I’m living up to my full potential and achieving more both personally and professionally. Rachel is a true confidante. She’s warm, compassionate, listens with empathy, and gives me honest feedback. She has helped me be more accountable to myself and my intentions so that I can find greater success and fulfillment in my life.

Rachel ignited a change process at Palomar Displays when our leadership team attended her workshops. Rachel worked closely with us to customize and focus on specific areas that provided common grounds for us to improve our processes and performance both as a team and individually. We are now benefiting from these positive changes. Our teams really enjoyed her style and organization and the attendees felt privileged to participate. Thanks Rachel!

RAE Development’s seminars are a must for any executive woman who is serious about furthering her development professionally and personally in a synchronistic and efficient manner.   Every workshop has given me an arsenal of foundational tools that provide me with a high degree of self confidence, balance, clarity, and productivity in every area of my life.

I have known Rachel Karu for many years. She was initially the Manager of Training and Organization Development at Easton Sports, Inc. and has been continued consulting with Easton Sports. I have seen Rachel perform several important roles: Facilitator, Coach, Trainer, Organization Development and Human Resources professional. Rachel is a creative professional devoted to assisting individuals in achieving their potential personally and professionally. She has the unique ability to conceptualize the big picture while possessing the organizational and attention to detail skills to implement a plan and deliver results. In a relatively short period of time Rachel was able to develop and deliver a corporate university, implement organizational competences and partner in the creation of new performance management system. These programs are still running effectively today. Rachel’s interpersonal skills assist her with communicating effectively at all levels ranging from executive to production worker. Her compassion for people comes across loud and clear. Rachel is able to adapt her style to her audience while always creating an atmosphere that invites participation and if fun. I highly recommend working with Rachel for any training and development projects.

Rachel Karu participated in the creation and delivery of Mattel’s corporate university.   As part of this process she effectively facilitated a planning day and numerous pilot sessions with various levels of leaders throughout our organization in order to seek feedback and build ownership for the new program. Rachel has been facilitating leadership-training sessions with Mattel for over one year.  She creates a fun, interactive environment.  Her energy is contagious and she is able to get people excited about their professional and personal development. Rachel is strong at comprehending the big picture while maintaining a keen attention to detail.  She understands how to modify material to meet the organizational culture as well adjust her approach to meet various learner’s styles and needs. Rachel has a strong client service orientation and is willing to go the extra mile to build a win-win partnership.  She continually provides valuable feedback to assist us with our continuous improvement.  Our leaders are benefiting greatly from working with Rachel.

Dear Rachel, I just wanted to let you know how much we have appreciated the management training curriculum and the Manager’s Toolkit you have helped us to develop and deliver over the past several years.  You have taken the time to listen to our needs, and have been remarkably flexible in customizing these professional development opportunities for our organization.  Your facilitation of these sessions and the materials which you prepared have met with high marks from managers, particularly those with less practical experience in coaching and counseling employees, orienting new employees, and preparing effective performance appraisals.  Providing our managers with tools they can actually put into immediate use, and creating an environment in which we were able to practice skills such as the Relationship Roadmap and the Coaching Process model, have resulted in performance and productivity improvements and more effective communications among employees at all levels. Thank you very much for working with us.

I am pleased to offer these comments regarding the training provided by Rachel Karu. Through her efforts, the organization’s management team has been provided workshops on a variety of topics skills including communication, coaching, managing performance problems and facilitating performance evaluation discussions. Rachel has successfully demonstrated her expertise as a facilitator and experience as a knowledgeable professional with every workshop delivered. The positive feedback provided by the participants is an indication that their workshops have been impactful and beneficial. It has been a pleasure to work with Rachel. Thank you.

Rachel, having had a few days to reflect, I just want to highlight what made the training workshop that you conducted so worthwhile. We really appreciated your open communication and enthusiasm for the material.  It certainly energized the group and the fact that there were no ‘wrong answers’ kept participation at a high level. Everyone felt comfortable openly communicating. Additionally, you displayed a mastery of the Key Principles throughout the training session and did an exceptional job of enhancing individual self-esteem.  You knew and understood your audience and listened to individual professional challenges and successfully guided the person to a positive solution.We look forward to having the opportunity to work with you again.

I invited Rachel to make a presentation to our office as part of our Lunchtime Seminar Series durig the holiday season beacuase our employees had requested information on Finding Balance in their Lives. Rachel’s presentation, particularly The Balance Wheel, helped the participants recognize those areas of their lives that were not in balance with their values.  One participant said: “I have certain career aspirations and personal goals that are not being fulfilled and participating in this seminar helped me focus on what I need to do to make them happen.” Rachel made it a point to include all members of the group in the discussion and facilitated the exploration of those areas that could be enhanced. Rachel’s presentation style was lively and entertaining and encouraged all to participate—even those who started out by being shy and retiring.  She created a safe environment in which to do some inner work.

Our Sales Team saw tremendous value in Rachel Karu’s “Trusted Advisor” session.  The presentation was creative and interactive.  Rachel effectively communicated several new ideas and tactics that can be utilized on a daily basis to improve personal and business relationships.

I wanted to communicate my strong recommendation for Rachel Karu as a new AND Effective Vistage Speaker. Rachel presented to my Key Executive Group last December and and did an excellent presentation. Rachel presents on “Coaching Skills” for the line manager who wants to develop his staff in an effective and motivational way. She is HIGH energy, strong out-going personality, engaging, AND she knows her subject well. When my members raised questions or asked about their real-life situations, Rachel was able to respond in a meaningful and insightful way. I believe that her presentation would be excellent for both CEO And Key groups. My members were able to readily identify several specific actions that each of them could implement the next day in terms of coaching and training their staffs. You will be fully pleased when Rachel presents to your groups.”

Dear Rachel, I just want to say a HUGE thank you for joining our team to make last night a great success. You added so much with your incredible energy, warmth and information. Your workshop was so well thought out; professional, interactive and full of practical tools for everyday life as well as for volunteering at the Friendship Circle. You were so warm and friendly to everyone, and had amazing energy throughout your workshop and the whole event. I thoroughly enjoyed your presentation and gained practical skills for my day-to-day life. I have received great feedback from our volunteers; for example, ‘Wow! Rachel was so interesting and practical.’ ‘I’m so excited to use the different techniques Rachel spoke about and let us practice with each other.’ ‘Rachel was so clear and easy to understand. She really broke things up so it wasn’t too much overwhelming information at once.’ ‘I loved the song at the end!’ Best wishes and the Biggest Thanks again for your super presentation, time, and for your outstanding generosity.

Rachel has created something truly innovative and new!  In combining her singing and theatrical talent with her superlative command of business and corporate subject matter, Rachel delivers a stunning one woman show with a life changing message for everyone in the room. Rachel uses her extraordinary vocal artistry and talent to connect intimately with her audience and doesn’t so much “tell” us her message…but lives it before our eyes! Rachel has set a new Gold Standard for event and conference presentations.  She combines the best of event speaking with superb singing and theatrical artistry to deliver a ”wow” factor of 10!  Rachel knows that music reaches deep within  us to move and inspire us…How perfect that she uses her glorious singing voice to touch us and change our lives.

I  wanted to extend my sincere appreciation for singing the Anthems Sunday night.  You were great! I haven’t heard such a wonderful rendition of both songs in a long time. Thank you very much for being such an important part of our evening.

Thank you so much for a lovely evening at our law firm’s 30th anniversary party.  You and your band were incredible.  You have an amazing voice and your wide vocal range was evident throughout the evening as your played standards, pop, soft rock, and disco.  You were well aware of the crowd’s mood and you were respectful of the professional tone of the evening but still got people up and dancing with a wild rendition of “SHOUT.” We were very lucky to have you at our event.  Thank you for creating a fun atmosphere and for sharing your beautiful voice with us all evening!  We are so grateful.