Ashish Singh

Ashish Singh is an author, Certified Life Coach and marketing leader. He founded The Calm Mind, an award-winning Toronto-based coaching practice, in 2018. His work rests on one belief: we should not have to wait for a breakdown before learning how to handle pressure. And when life knocks us off course, we should know how to find our way back. Ashish has been coaching for more than a decade, first alongside his corporate career and, since 2018, through The Calm Mind. He also brings 19 years of brand and marketing leadership across India and Canada, spanning consumer goods, food and beverage, travel and hospitality. He understands firsthand what it is like to appear capable at work while struggling to switch off mentally. His path into coaching was also personal. Having experienced anxiety and overthinking, he found that working with a life coach during a difficult period helped him regain perspective. That experience shaped his belief in helping people develop the tools to handle pressure before it becomes overwhelming. Through The Calm Mind, Ashish works with professionals who feel mentally overloaded by pressure, overthinking or change, helping them find calm, see what matters to them and act on it. For organizations, he has developed The Calm Advantage™, a workplace programme designed to help professionals handle everyday pressure and change with greater perspective and more deliberate responses. His work draws on mindfulness, breathwork and coaching, brought together in Medit-Action™, the approach he developed to connect awareness with action. It helps people: – Step back from automatic reactions. – Separate facts from fears. – Distinguish their own priorities from outside expectations. – Choose their next step with intention. He uses storytelling and everyday situations to make these ideas relatable and relevant to daily life. For Ashish, calm is not a retreat from ambition. It is the ability to recognize pressure earlier, think more clearly and respond deliberately rather than react automatically. When setbacks happen, the goal is not to become unaffected. It is to reduce bounce-back time, the time it takes to regain perspective and decide how to move forward. Ashish is the author of The Northern Light Within: Bloom in Winter • Shine in Every Season, recipient of the Literary Titan Gold Award. He holds an MBA and has completed Yale's The Science of Well-Being. He has been recognized among TrustAnalytica's [inquire] Toronto Life Coaches from 2023 to 2026, and The Calm Mind received the 2025 Consumer Choice Award for Life Coaching. Find calm. See what matters. Act on it.