Catriona Le May Doan, O.C.

Speaking topics

Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

• The Journey to Excellence: Leading Through Change, Pressure, and Continuous Improvement

  Every organization faces the same challenge: How do you stay at the top when competitors are watching your every move? How do you embrace change when it threatens everything you’ve built? And how do you inspire your team to push past self-imposed limits when the pressure is highest?

  Catriona Le May Doan knows what it takes to perform under extreme pressure. As the first Canadian ever to successfully defend an individual Olympic gold medal, she’s experienced both devastating failure and record-breaking success.

  But her most valuable insights come from the 12 million minutes between those defining moments — the daily decisions, the strategic pivots, and the team dynamics that separated last place from Olympic gold.

  In this engaging presentation, Le May Doan brings her Olympic medals into your room while sharing practical frameworks your team can apply immediately.

• Personal Excellence: Achieving Your Full Potential

  Catriona will share her insights on achieving goals and her career highs and lows. You can achieve your full potential through passion, a winning attitude, commitment, and teamwork. Her years as a speed skater have taught Catriona how to deal not only with obstacles, but also with success.

  What does it take to be the best? What does it take to stay there?

  The journey of Catriona LeMay Doan will take you there and inspire you to reach farther than you thought possible.

• Managing Expectations

  Changing situations means changing expectations – and mounting pressures to meet those expectations, both from within and from the outside world. Dealing with pressure and the fear of failure (and fear of success) is a reality for so many. Catriona will share with you, and help you learn from her own experience, as someone who dealt with changing expectations in the public eye.

• Breaking New Ground

  What does it mean to be the first person to accomplish something? When no one has ever been in the same situation as you before? Quite simply, a lot of responsibility. As the only Canadian to defend a gold medal at any Olympic games, Catriona will tell you about the stresses, tell you how you can help pave the way for others to follow like a true leader.

• Women and Careers

  Catriona Le May Doan can tell you about being an Olympic Champion Speed Skater and an Olympic broadcaster, about being tirelessly involved with her beloved community and those in it, about being a spokesperson for the SpinaBifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Canada, Co-Chair of the Special Olympics Canada Champions Network, and, most importantly, about being a woman and mother.

  Women are constantly pulled in many different directions. Find out how balance of work, life, and motherhood is possible while working towards own goals.

• Leadership with a Purpose

  Catriona’s career has taken her from standing on top of the Olympic podium, to promoting community sport, being a broadcaster and an athlete mentor for the 2018 Olympic Games. In each of these leadership roles the purpose and definition of success is different. Being a great leader is helping others to achieve their full potential. Sometimes we lead from the front and pave the way for others to come after us. Sometimes we guide from the back – as mentors and support. Either way, being a leader is committing that we will try to go farther than we thought possible and along the way, showing others that success is a discovery that has many adventures! Catriona will bring her stories of success and the leadership lessons she has learned along the way in achieving excellence.

• Corporate Hosting

  For all your corporate banquets and award evenings, have an Olympian/broadcaster who can engage with and entertain individuals, in both English and French.