Catriona Le May Doan
Bilingual Olympic Speed Skater and World Record Holder
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This bilingual dynamo’s smile lights up the platform before she speaks. She is articulate, engaging and gracious as she encourages people to achieve their full potential.
Books
Profile
Catriona LeMay Doan is the fastest woman on ice. After carrying the Canadian flag into the 2002 Olympic Winter Games’ opening ceremonies (her fourth Olympics), Catriona defended her Olympic title by winning a gold medal and achieving a world-record holding time in the 500-metre event. Catriona is the first individual Canadian to defend a gold medal at any Olympic Games and has broken the world record in speed skating eight times. In 1998 at the Nagano Olympic Winter Games, Catriona won her first Olympic gold medal in the 500-metre distance, then added a bronze medal in the 1,000-metre event. She has been named Canada’s Female Athlete of the Year twice, in 1998 and 2001, and in 2002, received the Lou Marsh Award as Canada’s Athlete of the Year.
An engaging and articulate speaker, Catriona challenges her audiences to achieve a higher level of personal excellence by employing the focusing techniques that create winners. Catriona captured her Olympic experience in her best-selling book, Going for Gold.
Clients Comments
“Catriona was awesome! Great presenter, great role model, great Canadian! She was very gracious in the time she committed and spent with our group and she received three standing ovations. They loved her!” Investors Group
Topics
- GOING FOR THE GOLD: The OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE
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Catriona will share the strategies and tactics that she applied to her sport, and how they can be applied universally. She shares her insights on achieving goals and the process during which one experiences trials and triumphs. It is only with characteristics like passion, a winning attitude, commitment, and teamwork that you can achieve your potential. Twenty-three years in the sport of speed skating taught Catriona a great deal. She learned to deal not only with obstacles, but also with success.
Catriona’s journey included numerous obstacles, yet with the help of her team, she learned to overcome anything. She has seen first hand what can be achieved when a team works together and appreciates each other’s strengths and weaknesses. That the potential is limitless when a team unites and rises to face challenges together.
Catriona Le May Doan has done what no other Canadian athlete has ever accomplished—she won an Olympic Gold medal and then successfully defended her Olympic Gold title.
This two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and five-time World Champion is one of Canada’s most successful and highly decorated athletes. She is the first and only Canadian individual to defend a gold medal at any Olympic Games. Her unwavering commitment and drive towards her goals is an inspiration for fellow athletes and Canadians in any situation. A part of the Vancouver Olympic 2010 bid team, Catriona spent three years on their Board of Directors. During the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics she joined Brian Williams and Lloyd Robertson in the broadcast booth as Co-Host of the Opening Ceremony and also served as Analyst for Long Track Speed Skating alongside Rod Smith.
Catriona is an articulate, engaging and bilingual presenter. Her story is an inspiration, and her ability to explore with audiences the method of achieving personal excellence while challenging and motivating people to achieve their full potential is unmatched.
- Personal Excellence: Achieving Your Full Potential
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Catriona will share the strategies and tactics that she applied to her sport, and how they can be applied universally. She shares her insights on achieving goals and the process during which one experiences trials and triumphs. It is only with characteristics like passion, a winning attitude, commitment, and teamwork that you can achieve your potential. Twenty-three years in the sport of speed skating taught Catriona a great deal. She learned to deal not only with obstacles, but also with success.
Catriona’s journey included numerous obstacles, yet with the help of her team, she learned to overcome anything. She has seen first hand what can be achieved when a team works together and appreciates each other’s strengths and weaknesses. That the potential is limitless when a team unites and rises to face challenges together.
Catriona realized her dream of winning an Olympic gold medal, and further realized that remaining at the top was even harder. She will leave her audience with a clear understanding of what it takes to get to the top and stay there in a competitive environment.
What does it take to be the best? What does it take to remain the best? Catriona highlights the role of leadership and the need to continually raise the bar to stay on top and overcome obstacles.