Sami Jo Small
Keynote Speaker | Toronto, Ontario
Gold Medal Winning Goalie with the Canadian Women's Olympic Hockey Team
Sami Jo Small Expertise Adaptability & Agility, Health & Wellness, Stress Management, Burnout Prevention, Nutrition & Fitness, Work Life Balance, Health Performance and Mindset & Goal Accomplishment.
About Sami Jo Small
Sami Jo Small is a multi-sport athlete, a three-time Olympian, and a five-time world champion goalie for the Canadian national women’s ice hockey team. Sami Jo Small uses storytelling to exemplify many aspects of developing more successful teams & leave the audience with concrete ways to support the people & the teams around them through her message.
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SAMI JO SMALL BIOGRAPHY
Sami Jo has been speaking professionally since she started with the National Team in 1997. When many of her teammates shied away from the microphone, Sami Jo was quick to share stories about the team. Sami Jo has honed her message about teamwork after more than 20 years in the industry using stories from one of Canada’s most successful teams, the Canadian Women’s Hockey Team. A team then won 4 straight Olympic Gold medals over 20 years. She delves into the personalities on the team and her thoughts on what makes strong teammates and ultimately successful as a team. With her learnings, she has shown audiences all over the world that,
“In life, you don’t always get to choose the role you play, but you always get to choose how you play it.”
Sami Jo has earned the highest designation as a speaking professional, the CSP (Certified Speaking professional) of which there are only just over 500 worldwide and only a handful of former athletes. She began her career as a 13-year-old winning her local Manitoba French-speaking contest, the “Concours D’Art Oratoire” giving a speech on Manon Rhéaume, the first women to play in the NHL. Sami Jo won despite having broken a tooth in half that morning playing sports in the gym. She parlayed that into a role as school president, then class valedictorian, always loving to be at the front of the room.
Her career really began in the industry after earning her degree from Stanford University in the Mechanical Engineer school while focusing on product design. Despite an engineering degree in Silicon Valley in the 90’s, Sami choose to move to Toronto to become a full-time hockey player. She supplemented her hockey income (very little) by doing speaking events and the rest is history.
She’s been speaking professionally for more than 20 years, serving on the board of the Canadian Association of professional speakers and mentoring other Olympic athletes as they transition into the business of speaking.
Sami Jo Small Topic Presentations
Sami Jo Small Toronto, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.
Playing the Role
It's Not About the Medal
Dynamic Duo
Teamwork and Change
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