Liz is a captivating speaker who empowers her audience through wisdom, actionable strategies, and powerful stories.

Liz is a 3x Olympian (London, Rio, & Tokyo), holds the National Javelin Record at 64.83m (212.7 ft), won 11 Canadian Championships, and competes on the international professional circuit. She retired in 2022, then had epiphany about emotions, posture, and power production that inspired her to train for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

A Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology provided a foundational for her natural curiosity: for the last 16 years, she’s explored, tested and expanded on the most effective ways to boost performance. This has included deep dives in nutrition, visualization, resilience training, meditation, physical rehabilitation, yoga, sleep, psychology of habits, breathwork, movement practice, and emotional induction.

During the pandemic, Liz started sharing her insights and strategies through Airbnb’s Online Experiences: Win the Morning became a hit with companies around the world (including Shopify, Instagram, EY, Spotify, and multiple Google teams) acrueing over 200 5-Star reviews.

Liz’s events are science-based, have powerful story telling, and use teaching strategies that facilitate retention and integration:

  • Right Your Rocket: this is the upgraded version of Win the Morning, and is teaches high performers “minimum effective dose” strategies that prime optimal physical, mental, and emotional states. Liz shares the story of her morning routine helped her make her first Olympics - despite being hit by a hammer throw.

  • Gratitude: Amplying Personal and Team Performance: Learn the physiological effects of gratitude, how to shift your emotional state in minutes, and a reframe that will forever change the way you communicate. This event is based on the epiphany that pulled Liz out of retirement and commit to 4th Olympics.

  • The Power of Daily Wins: Long periods of deep work can make us feel like we’re on a plateau - or worse, in a rut. Learn how to set, aknowledge, and celebrate daily wins re-sensitizes yourself to feel incremental progress, rekindle motivation, and identify as someone who is steadily moviing forward. Through the story of shattering her own Canadian Record after a 10-month back rehab, Liz shows how the biggest leaps forward are often due to consistent, daily effort adding up.

A brief bio:

Liz is from Vancouver, BC and bases there between training camps and competitions. She developed her arm pitching for the Vancouver Wildcats Rep Fastball Team, and was a “natural” when she first threw a javelin in gym class at Kitsilano High School. Liz went on to win 4 NAIA Championships in Javelin for the University of British Columbia.

She put her education on hold and moved to Lethbridge, Alberta in 2011 to train full time with coach Larry Steinke: it paid off in a new Canadian Record, making the 2012 Olympics, and becoming an Olympic Finalist.

Liz had a potentially career-ending back injury, but rehabed with the help of Dr. LJ Lee and came back to break the Canadian Record again, and win the 2015 Pan American Games. Rio was looking promising until a spinal chord injury occured in a training accident: she made the team, and placed 16th, but it wasn’t the outcome she’d hoped for, and recommited to one more Olympics.

The next few years included injuries, coaching changes, relocating to Vancouver, elbow and ankle injuries, heartbreak, a deep dive into meditation, a Silver Medal at the 2019 Pan American Games, the pandemic, an appendectomy, and taking over writing the training program. Despite having the best warm up of her life before the Tokyo Olympics, things didn’t go as planned in the stadium: she tripped on her first throw, mistook someone else’s green marker for her own on the second, and then was cooled down 25 minutes later for her 3rd throw.

Liz decided to do one more year of track, but to with a different set of goals: to have as much fun as possible, compete in Finland and Czech Republic, be warm as often as possible, and to train with other world class javelin throwers. Not only did she have the time of her life traveling and connecting with other throwers, Liz threw the exact some distance (to the cm) as the year before - even with an injured foot, sick and coughing, and in the pouring rain.

With a full heart, she retired in the fall of 2022 and decide to fully commit herself to speaking events and writing a book about high performance habits. She got rid any distractions, cut out tv, and limited social interaction while she attempted to analyze and integrate her 20 year carreer.

A week long retreat at her cousin’s cabin gave her the space to have an epiphany the biggest limiting factor in her performance: her emotional state. She had trained herself to move relative to the posture of frustration and it had limited her ability fully coordinate and extend her body in the throw.

Liz could no longer retire in good conscience: she committed rewiring her body and mind relative to gratitude and other high level emotions, have the performance of her life at the Paris 2024 Olympics, and teach others how to use this concept to reach their own goals.

3-Time Javelin Olympian and Motivational Speaker

Liz is from Vancouver, British Columbia, and lives globally for training camps and competitions. She is available for online events, and can travel for speaking engagements.

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