Jennifer Botterill
One Of Canada’s Most Successful Female Athletes & NHL Broadcaster. This sentence is invisible .
It’s all about potential for Jennifer Botterill. One of Canada’s most successful athletes, Jennifer is the president of two companies, a peak performance coach, and a keynote speaker who can run corporate retreats for professional development.
People know her best for her Olympic accomplishments. She spent 14 years on the Canadian Women’s Hockey Team and attended four Olympic Games. She has three gold medals and a silver medal to her credit and is a five-time World Champion. She was named most valuable player at the World Championship tournaments twice.
Yet, Jennifer has other accomplishments. She completed her degree with honours at Harvard University, where she played hockey and was team captain and works as a broadcaster for Hockey Night in Canada. Her television experience includes TSN, MSG Networks, Sportsnet and CBC. She also worked for NBC as an in-studio analyst for its historic first all-women’s broadcast team.
Her sports and professional role opened up opportunities in development and mentorships. Jennifer is an ambassador for Right to Play, worked for projects with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) as well as working with many charities such as Children’s Wish Foundation, the Hockey Canada Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society.
Jennifer can provide a powerful impact as a dynamic speaker. She is sincere and authentic while providing meaningful and entertaining content. The things she talks about can be applied by those in the audience immediately. Her speeches are insightful, encouraging and thought-provoking as she strives to teach everyone how to reach their full potential.
Why Not You? How to Excel in Life and Business
Jennifer focuses on how to reach new levels of excellence in your personal and professional life. She addresses the importance of setting high standards for yourself in every capacity. Jennifer provides tools that her audience can start to apply on a daily basis. She encourages an approach for sustainable excellence and provides techniques on how to perform at your best on a consistent level. Jennifer shares techniques to help with preparation and she discusses the critical importance of time management. She helps people to strive towards their ideal performance state and to take a ‘no regrets’ approach to each day. Jennifer wants every person to think about the lasting impact that they would like to create in their lives, and she will help them to achieve this.
Reach new levels of excellence in Leadership
Jennifer focuses on how to reach new levels of excellence in leadership. She addresses the importance of setting high standards for yourself, and how you can elevate the performance of others. Jennifer provides tools that her audience can start to apply on a daily basis. She encourages an approach for sustainable excellence and provides techniques on how leaders can help their teams perform at their best on a consistent basis. Jennifer shares techniques on how leaders can help others to thrive through change and show the potential to achieve more. Jennifer also shares tools for leadership preparation and time management. Jennifer encourages her audience to think about the lasting impact that they would like to create in their lives, and shares tools to create this influence.
Resiliency Thriving in a Changing Environment
The path that we face isn’t always as we may have imagined. Jennifer addresses the benefits of adapting to change. We have a choice to make every day, and Jennifer demonstrates how we can learn to shift our perspective to make the most of our environment. Jennifer shares stories and messages that have helped her on her evolving path through life, sport and business. She provides examples on how we need to do things differently to get better results than we have in the past. Jennifer shares ideas on how to be productive and efficient in every way. She teaches how to control potential distractions and how to maintain a strong level of focus. She encourages people to strive towards new excellence – in any environment.
Teamwork The Journey to Success
Jennifer has decades of experience in various team settings! She recognizes the value of teamwork and shares lessons that have been the most valuable. Jennifer demonstrates the benefits of bringing out the best in those around you. She helps teams and organizations to create a positive culture. Each person has an attitude that has the potential to be very contagious. She knows that it can be extremely helpful to create healthy competition and to embrace a positive rivalry in many situations. Each role within a team is equally important, and Jennifer teaches how to shift your perspective to help the group to succeed.
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Women In Business Reaching new levels of excellence
“Jennifer was amazing! She was engaging, a great storyteller, and her message was extremely well aligned to our event. We could tell she took the time to understand who we are as an organization and drew parallels so well on how we can all find balance and strive for excellence in our everyday.”
Canadian Medical Protective Association
“Jennifer Botterill spoke exceptionally well to Deloitte’s Next Generation CIO Academy. She was engaging, honest, thoughtful and funny. The audience was extremely absorbed in her message, and Jennifer presented us with numerous words to live by. Many in the audience even took notes on her presentation, a strong vote of confidence from a group of senior leaders. In short, I would not hesitate to have Jennifer back to engage broader audiences.”
Deloitte
“Jennifer Botterill – our keynote speaker at four events, each with a different audience and all very successful! Jennifer is a proud and patriotic, family-centred woman with a ready laugh who demonstrates an open desire to interact with the guests/attendees. Her energetic and goal-oriented style is authentic, sincere, and positive. Jennifer has an admirable ability to connect her presentation and personal successes to the audience with only a short briefing meeting in preparation for presenting. She delivers an impactful presentation that resonates with the attendees both on a professional and personal level – living in the moment but never losing sight of your goal; the critical importance of teamwork; the focus on others – that of making people around you better; the joy of celebrating others and sharing success; the magnitude of being supportive; and the significance of honouring the past – what and who got you to where you are.”
Proresp Inc.
“Inspiring” “Captivating” “Dynamic” “These were the words used to describe Olympian Jennifer Botterill after her speech to over 300 surgeons at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. You could have heard a pin drop in the room as the Canadian women’s hockey star delivered a talk on perseverance, teamwork, and following your dreams. Afterwards, the long lineup of people wanting an autograph or photo with Jennifer and her Olympic medals seemed to last forever and serves as a testament to her riveting speech and powerful impact on the audience. “When she spoke of the joy that she felt when she saw her teammates receive their gold medals after the Olympic hockey final game, I understood what it meant to be part of a real team and to lift up those around you so we can all perform at our best”. She is an accomplished speaker who graciously connects with an audience and delivers a message of teamwork, effort, and dedication. Jennifer, thank you for being a part of our meeting and inspiring our group to work together and go ‘faster, higher, stronger’.”
Canadian Society Of Otolaryngology-head And Neck Surgery
“Jennifer’s ability to connect her personal experiences of effort, dedication, overcoming challenges, sharing successes, and most of all working together as a team to accomplish goals and dreams was amazingly well received by our entire Franchisee network. A testament to her acceptance and appreciation was delivered in an extended standing ovation that was our group’s way of saying “Thanks!” Jennifer’s pre-presentation work, analysis and effort to ensure the parallels of her message would connect to our audience was extremely appreciated and without question, has left a meaningful impact on our Franchisee group, that many still reference to me over a year later! Her on stage presence, comfort, and pleasant demeanour are qualities that certainly enhance her excellent communication skills in a package that certainly “makes it all work”. She is one of Canada’s greatest female hockey players of all time, an accomplished professional speaker and communicator and best of all one of the most pleasant and genuine people you could ever possibly be associated with.”
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