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Book Jennifer Botterill, Peak Performance Speaker
About This Speaker
Jennifer Botterill is one of Canada’s most successful athletes. A member of the Canadian Women’s Hockey Team for 14 years, she is a three-time Olympic champion. Jennifer is an NHL broadcasting analyst. When she is not sharing her knowledge and expertise of sport on air, she is empowering others to pursue excellence as an engaging keynote speaker and peak performance coach.
An honours graduate of Harvard University, Botterill is the only two-time winner of the Patty Kazmaier award, which honours the top player in women’s college hockey. Botterill debuted for the national team in 1997 and was named to the first-ever Canadian Olympic women’s hockey roster in 1998. Throughout her collegiate career and beyond, Botterill amassed 17 gold medals for Canada. She is a four-time Olympic medalist (with three gold medals), a five-time World Champion, and a twice-named MVP of the World Championships.
Jennifer Botterill is a professional hockey analyst and has appeared on national networks in both Canada and the US. She kicked off her broadcast career in 2011 covering the Women’s World Championships for TSN. Since then, she has also worked with MSG Network, providing analysis for the New York Islanders, and with CBC on Hockey Night in Canada and as part of their Olympic broadcast team. Jennifer has done extensive coverage of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Botterill has works with Warner Bros. Discovery’s NHL on TNT coverage and is very excited for this 2026–2027 NHL season. She was also part of NBC’s first-ever all-women NHL broadcast team, and covered the 2026 Olympic Games with NBC.
Jennifer Botterill was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2025. Jennifer’s remarkable contributions to the sport of hockey were further recognized with her induction. This honour celebrates her exceptional career as one of Canada’s most accomplished athletes, highlighting her outstanding achievements on the international stage and her lasting impact on the game both on and off the ice.
Botterill is also the author of Why Not You, a new book focused on pursuing excellence and reaching your potential. The book is a Canadian nonfiction bestseller, further extending Jennifer’s impact beyond the world of hockey and into the areas of leadership, performance and personal development.
In addition, Botterill is the CEO of Excel in Life Inc. and Journey to Excel Inc., where she continues her pursuit of excellence while inspiring and coaching others.
Jennifer Botterill received the Order of Manitoba in recognition of her commitment to giving back to her community. Jennifer is the mom of three kids and has supported charity organizations, including the Special Olympics, KidSport, Children’s Wish Foundation, SickKids Hospital, Can Fund, and the Canadian Cancer Society.
Speaker Fee: $5,000 - $10,000
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Why Not You? How to Excel in Life & Business 
Jennifer shares how to reach new levels of excellence in your personal and professional life, and the importance of setting high standards for yourself. She provides tools and techniques for the audience to apply on a daily basis, developed through her career. By sharing shares techniques to help with preparation, she discusses the critical importance of time management. Jennifer asks “Why not you?” to inspire the audience to boldly pursue their goals that may have felt just out of reach.
Sustainable High Performance
Jennifer engages people on how to approach life with a new standard of high performance, and shares strategies on how to not only make it to the next level, but to excel when you get there. She provides techniques to perform at this high level on a consistent, daily basis. Jennifer identifies tools on how to facilitate sustainable high performance in a variety of settings.
Resiliency: Thriving in a Changing Environment
The path that we face isn’t always what we may have imagined, and 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. She shares stories and messages that have helped her on her evolving path through life, sport and business, and provides examples on how we need to do things differently to get better results that we have in the past. Jennifer shares ideas on how to be productive and efficient in every way, and teaches her audience 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.
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