Catriona Le May Doan
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Expertise in
- Change Management
- Health and Wellness
- Leadership
- Peak Performance & Productivity
- Personal Development & Growth
- Resilience & Adversity
- Team Building & Teamwork
Speaker Types
- Academic
- All Staff Meeting
- Annual General Meetings
- Associations & Unions
- Athletes & Sports
- Awareness Days
- Bilingual & French
CATRIONA LE MAY DOAN BIOGRAPHY
Catriona Le May Doan was the fastest woman on ice, and the first Canadian to defend a gold medal at any Olympic games. Having held the world record in the 500 metre speed skating event for ten years, Catriona is a world champion athlete and an inspiration to every crowd she addresses. At ease speaking in both official languages, Catriona motivates audiences to dream bigger and reach farther than they ever thought possible.
Catriona Le May Doan was the world’s dominant female sprinter of the 1997-98 season. In November 1997 she became the first woman to break the 38-second barrier in the 500m, skating it in 37.90 seconds in Calgary. She lowered the mark five more times over the next four years, eventually setting the record at 37.22 seconds in December 2001, which stood until March 2007. At the 1998 World Single Distances Championships, she won gold in the 500m and silver in the 1000m. She was also crowned World Sprint Champion and was the overall World Cup champion in the 500m and 1000m.
That dominance continued through the next quadrennial, as she won the 500m world title in 1999 and 2001 with a bronze medal in 2000.
With her impressive resume, Catriona Le May Doan was named Canadian flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony at Salt Lake City 2002, her fourth Olympic Games. She skated to another Olympic record that would not be broken until Sochi 2014 winning her second straight gold medal in the 500m. She was named the 2002 recipient of the Lou Marsh Award as Canada’s Athlete of the Year and earned her third career (1998, 2001, 2002) Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canadian Female Athlete of the Year.
In addition to being a world champion athlete, Catriona Le May Doan is a talented motivational speaker. She is an articulate, engaging and bilingual presenter, exploring with her audiences the method of achieving personal excellence while challenging and motivating people to reach their full potential
Catriona is actively involved in community and charity associations including The Saskatoon Foundation Catriona Le May Doan Endowment for Children and Youth. She is a spokesperson for the SpinaBifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Canada and is involved with Special Olympics Canada. She was on the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Organizing Committee Board and is a board member of the Canadian Sport Institute Calgary and a member of the Canada Games Council.
In the media, Catriona Le May Doan has covered five Olympic Games. She co-hosted CBC’s primetime show countdown to Beijing; joined the CTV Olympic broadcast team for the Vancouver 2010 Games, which earned her a Gemini Award for Best Sports Analyst; and for the London 2012 Olympic Games, Catriona was co-host of the Olympic Morning Show.
Catriona Le May Doan has received three Honorary Degrees from the University of Calgary, the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina and gave the convocation speech to their graduating classes. Catriona was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Olympic Committee’s Sports Hall of Fame and appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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 Le May Doan will share with you, and help you learn from her own experience, as someone who dealt with changing expectations in the public eye.
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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.
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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.
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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 Le May Doan will bring her stories of success and the leadership lessons she has learned along the way in achieving excellence.
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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.
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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.
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Corporate Hosting
For all your corporate banquets and award evenings, Catriona can engage with and entertain individuals, in both English and French.
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Catriona has appeared for us at a number of corporate and non-corporate functions across North America. Catriona Le May Doan is a dynamic and energetic speaker who delivers a universal message that resonates with all audiences. She is a true Canadian icon who is professional, charming, and gracious. We require speakers for a number of different events and she is, by far, requested the most often.
Catriona Le May Doan was outstanding and received a standing ovation from the 600 conference attendees. Her presentation was everything that I could hope for in a keynote speaker – engaging, humorous, topical, humble and accommodating. I would highly recommend her to any organization interested in hearing from one of Canada’s best.
Focus 1 Consulting Ltd
Catriona Le May Doan was awesome! Great presenter, a 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.
Nestle
A wonderful presentation, she was very engaging – and the material was well suited to celebrate the milestone and recognize our first female President of the Association.
Chief Administrative Officer
Association of BC Land Surveyors
Catriona Le May Doan was excellent – put her in the top ten of all speakers I have heard. Her passion, articulation and message were received with enthusiasm and admiration by our national group.
Executive Director
Saskatchewan Association for Resource Recovery Corp. (SARRC)
IN THE MEDIA
PODCASTS
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MEDIA INTERVIEWS
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Catriona Le May Doan CAN DELIVER CUSTOMIZED PRESENTATIONS WITHIN THE FOLLOWING AREAS OF EXPERTISE & TOPIC THEMES
Expertise in
- Change Management
- Health and Wellness
- Leadership
- Peak Performance & Productivity
- Personal Development & Growth
- Resilience & Adversity
- Team Building & Teamwork
Speaker Types
- Academic
- All Staff Meeting
- Annual General Meetings
- Associations & Unions
- Athletes & Sports
- Awareness Days
- Bilingual & French
- Campus & University Speakers
- Canadian Conferences & Summits
- Chrarities & Foundations
- Community Engagement Events
- Conference
- Consultant & Coach
- Hall of Fame
- Healthcare
- Hybrid Workplace
- Inclusive Leadership
- Inspirational
- Interactive & Experience
- Key Note
- Motivation
- Olympians & Olympics
- Online Meetings & Virtual Meetings
- Social & Cultural
- Town Halls & Retreats
- Virtual
- Women
- Women of Influence
- Workshop & Training
- Youth Leadership & Students
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