A member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and the Guinness Book of World Records, and a recipient of the Governor General’s Medal, McBean, concurrent to her Olympic career, also managed to finish a degree in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario. She is also actively involved in helping to promote the safety, health and activity of Canada’s youth as well as many sport and athlete development groups.
In her keynotes, Marnie McBean does for corporate audiences what she does for top-level athletes: she draws on a lifetime of personal excellence to help teams achieve their goals. In a frank, effortless manner, she shares the goal-setting techniques she used to become one of Canada’s most successful athletes ever. These techniques — rigorously tested and proven — set a path for the preparation, communication and teamwork that are essential to winning in any competitive environment. With anecdotes and hard-earned wisdom, she connects with audiences as a real person, and leaves them with a framework for success that transcends sports — one that can be applied to any competitive endeavour. Her role in the preparation and execution of the Vancouver Games was a crucial one; and she takes just as seriously each of her keynotes, in which she helps your team do what she has done, time and again: turn potential into outstanding performance.