Sami Jo Small
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Leadership
- Mental Health
- Peak Performance
- Personal Growth
- Resilience & Adversity
- Teamwork
- Business Growth
- Athletes & Sports
- Career Development
- Certified Speaking Professionals (CSP)
- Conference
- Finance & Insurance
- Funny & Comedy
- Healthcare
- Inspirational
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. She 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.
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Sami Jo Small Topic Presentations
playing the role
- Keynote Presentation
Focuses on helping you help the individuals in the crowd be motivated and inspired to help those around them. She’ll help your group become a better “team”, whether that’s in the workplace, at home or in relationships, and inspire the group to want to work harder for a common goal.
it's not about the medal
- Keynote Presentation
Sami Jo uses storytelling to point out to audiences a way to develop additional eminent groups and leaves participants with concrete ways in which to support the individuals and also the surrounding groups.
In usually dynamic business environments, she’ll show audiences a way to keep the course and the way to target the large image while still taking care of details. Through distinctive stories of perseverance and drive, she encourages audiences not solely to search out recommendations from others but to additionally share their data and experience as mentors.
Sami Jo can share stories from her life to demonstrate that we have a tendency to all have a price in numerous alternative ways and area unit all capable of tributary and finding value.
dynamic duo
- Keynote Presentation
Sami Jo is married to one of Canada’s most successful Paralympians, Billy Bridges. He just recently returned from his 6th Paralympic Games in Beijing.
Speaking together, they offer a unique take on teamwork sharing different perspectives on the same goals. As the all time leader in points in all the world in the sport of sledge hockey, Billy adds a unique perspective. Growing up with Spina Bifida and being in a wheelchair has meant he has had to overcome many obstacles in pursuit of his goals.
teamwork and change
- Keynote Presentation
Through her keynote address, Sami Jo focuses on helping the individuals in the crowd to be motivated and inspired to help those around them. She’ll show your group how to become a better “team”, whether that’s in the workplace, at home, or in relationships. She’ll also inspire your team to want to work harder for a common goal.
This keynote is great for groups from all industries; Sami Jo has experience working with many diverse groups over her speaking career.
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Leadership
- Mental Health
- Peak Performance
- Personal Growth
- Resilience & Adversity
- Teamwork
- Business Growth
- Athletes & Sports
- Career Development
- Certified Speaking Professionals (CSP)
- Conference
- Finance & Insurance
- Funny & Comedy
- Healthcare
- Inspirational
- Motivation
- Olympians & Olympics
- TED & TEDx
- Youth Leadership & Students
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