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About This Speaker
Miranda Ayim is a three-time Olympian, Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony Co-Flag Bearer for Team Canada, leadership coach, and keynote speaker who helps leaders rethink high performance.
After more than two decades competing and leading in elite sport, Miranda developed a deep curiosity about what truly drives sustainable success. While achievement often looks impressive from the outside, she discovered that many high performers quietly wrestle with the same challenges: relentless pressure, competing priorities, overthinking, and the feeling that success never stops asking for more.
Today, Miranda works with leaders and organizations across North America to help them think more clearly under pressure, lead with greater intention, and perform at their highest level. Blending stories from elite sport with leadership coaching, performance psychology, and timeless insights into human flourishing, she equips audiences with practical frameworks that continue to shape the way they work and lead long after the event ends.
Miranda has partnered with organizations including RBC, Bell, AstraZeneca Canada, the Canadian Olympic Committee, Toyota, and Canada Basketball. Her engaging storytelling, thoughtful perspective, and approachable style make her a trusted voice for conferences, leadership events, and organizations looking to inspire meaningful, lasting change.
Based in London, Ontario, Miranda is passionate about developing leaders who pursue excellence without losing sight of what matters most.
Speaker Fee: $10,000 - $15,000
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Rethinking High Performance: What’s Powering Your Performance? 
We’ve inherited a lot of ideas about what it takes to succeed: work harder, push through, stay disciplined, never settle. While these approaches can produce results, they can also leave high performers operating on pressure, proving, comparison, and the persistent feeling that what they’ve achieved is never quite enough.
This keynote invites audiences to examine the hidden assumptions powering the way they work, lead, and pursue success—and consider what becomes possible when performance is built on a different foundation.
Key Takeaways
• Identify the hidden assumptions and mental patterns shaping how you approach performance and success
• Recognize the difference between performing from pressure and performing with clarity and intention
• Develop practical strategies to navigate pressure, overthinking, and competing priorities more effectively
• Build an inner performance environment that supports both exceptional results and long-term growth
This keynote invites audiences to examine the hidden assumptions powering the way they work, lead, and pursue success—and consider what becomes possible when performance is built on a different foundation.
Key Takeaways
• Identify the hidden assumptions and mental patterns shaping how you approach performance and success
• Recognize the difference between performing from pressure and performing with clarity and intention
• Develop practical strategies to navigate pressure, overthinking, and competing priorities more effectively
• Build an inner performance environment that supports both exceptional results and long-term growth
Leadership Under Pressure: Clarity, Resilience & the Inner Game of Leadership
Pressure doesn’t just test what leaders know, it reveals the habits and patterns they rely on when the stakes are high. This keynote explores the inner skills that help leaders remain clear, adaptable, and intentional through uncertainty, setbacks, competing demands, and the everyday pressures of leading others.
Rather than trying to eliminate pressure, audiences learn how to change the way they respond to it—recovering more quickly, thinking more clearly, and leading with greater intention when it matters most.
Key Takeaways
• Recognize the mental patterns that interfere with clear thinking and effective leadership under pressure
• Use practical tools to regain clarity and focus in high-pressure moments
• Strengthen resilience by improving recovery from setbacks, mistakes, and unexpected challenges
• Make more intentional decisions without waiting for pressure or uncertainty to disappear
Rather than trying to eliminate pressure, audiences learn how to change the way they respond to it—recovering more quickly, thinking more clearly, and leading with greater intention when it matters most.
Key Takeaways
• Recognize the mental patterns that interfere with clear thinking and effective leadership under pressure
• Use practical tools to regain clarity and focus in high-pressure moments
• Strengthen resilience by improving recovery from setbacks, mistakes, and unexpected challenges
• Make more intentional decisions without waiting for pressure or uncertainty to disappear
Legacy Leadership: Leading Beyond the Scoreboard
The most meaningful measure of leadership isn’t simply what we accomplish, it’s what our leadership creates in the people and environments around us. This keynote challenges leaders to look beyond short-term results and consider the culture, relationships, and ripple effects they are creating along the way.
Audiences explore the connection between self-leadership and collective impact, gaining practical ways to lead with greater awareness, strengthen trust, and make choices that align performance with what matters most.
Key Takeaways
• Understand how individual leadership behaviours shape team culture and collective performance
• Build greater self-awareness around how you show up and the impact you have on others
• Strengthen trust and connection while maintaining high standards for performance
• Make more intentional leadership choices that create impact beyond immediate results
Audiences explore the connection between self-leadership and collective impact, gaining practical ways to lead with greater awareness, strengthen trust, and make choices that align performance with what matters most.
Key Takeaways
• Understand how individual leadership behaviours shape team culture and collective performance
• Build greater self-awareness around how you show up and the impact you have on others
• Strengthen trust and connection while maintaining high standards for performance
• Make more intentional leadership choices that create impact beyond immediate results
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