ABOUT OUR FOUNDER

Holly Rasky

As a legal and public affairs professional with extensive experience leading people and teams in highly regulated industries, I takes a “long game” approach to business: how we act today, will impact our personal and corporate brand in the long term. As a result, I approach problem solving with integrity, sound judgment, creativity – and a healthy dose of optimism.

My career has allowed me the opportunity to work in law, politics, government, an NGO and one of the largest multinational healthcare companies in the world. My family continues to wonder how this happened since I entered university as a music major in New York with dreams of becoming a concert pianist. As my very pragmatic father used to say, “you can be a starving artist with no piano, or a rich lawyer with a piano.” 

Somewhere along the way, I realized that using my left and right brain is the best of all possible worlds.  Perhaps this explains why I consistently bring creativity, vision and pragmatism to all that I do.

And yes, I continue to play the piano. 

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ABOUT ME

As a legal and public affairs professional with extensive experience leading people and teams in highly regulated industries, I take a “long game” approach to business: how we act today, will impact our personal and corporate brand in the long term. As a result, I approach problem solving with integrity, sound judgment, creativity – and a healthy dose of optimism.

My career has allowed me the opportunity to work in law, politics and business. My family continues to wonder how this happened since I entered university as a music major in New York with dreams of becoming a concert pianist. As my very pragmatic father used to say, “you can be a starving artist with no piano, or a rich lawyer with a piano.” Perhaps this explains why I consistently bring creativity, vision and pragmatism to all that I do.

And yes, I continue to play the piano.

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HOLLY RASKY

celebrating 19 Years of public affairs leadership

2006 - present

6ix Degrees

Founder & Chief Strategist – full service public affairs firm and on-call interim executive.

THINGS I AM REALLY PROUD OF


♦ FOUNDING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR  of the WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP KNOWLEDGE HUB , housed at the  DIVERSITY INSTITUTE, TED ROGERS SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, TMU

• built an enduring national bilingual think/do-tank focused on leading transformational change to the eco-system supporting the advancement of women entrepreneurship in Canada.  Ten university hub and dozens of partners.


♦ CO-CREATOR of TELEHEALTH ONTARIO (now Health811)

• Pitched, developed, and negotiated concept on behalf of the Ontario Pharmacists’ Association, developed legal and policy framework with MOHLTC.


♦ SENIOR POLITICAL STAFF to the MINISTERS OF LABOUR and EDUCATION  for Ontario  


♦ DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS for the national charity,  KIDS HELP PHONE 


♦ PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AT SENECA COLLEGE’S CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM 


♦ LAWYER, ADJUDICATOR and JUDICIAL LAW CLERK 

• Specialized in public law, with a focus on  labour, employment, and mental health law. 

Education

LL.B./J.D. - Queen's University, Canada

Hons. BA - Sarah Lawrence College, New York

Visiting Scholar, McGill University, Canada

CERTIFICATES

Member, Law Society of Ontario, & the Society of Adjudicators and Regulators

Program on Negotiation Certificate, Harvard Law School, Harvard Negotiation Institute

Leadership Certificate, Banff School of Management

Skills

Strategic Problem-Solving 100%
Leadership 100%
Communications 100%
Connecting: People and Ideas 100%
Sense of Humour 100%

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