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Janet Evans
High Performance
Goal Setting
Olympics
Janet Evans is an International Swimming Hall of Famer and peak performance speaker. She works with teams to develop competitive mindset, long-term career strategies, and high-performance leadership, backed by four Olympic gold medals and the Sullivan Award.
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Athlete
Olympian
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Inspirational Female
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Mindset
TEDx
Janet Evans redefined what was possible in competitive swimming, holding world records across three freestyle distances that stood for nearly two decades.
Janet won four Olympic gold medals and one silver across the 1988 Seoul and 1992 Barcelona Games, breaking seven world records over her career. She is a member of both the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, and received the Sullivan Award in 1989 as the country's top amateur athlete. Today she serves as Chief Athlete Officer for LA28.
Janet's path from 15-year-old world record holder to Olympic flame bearer at Atlanta 1996 to comeback athlete at age 40 gives Janet a rare vantage point on elite performance. In her current role shaping the Los Angeles 2028 Games, she brings practical knowledge of what athletes need to compete and succeed at the highest level, ensuring her insights are grounded in lived experience.
Audiences leave with a clearer framework for building resilience across long careers, a realistic look at how major sporting institutions actually operate from the inside, and concrete strategies for staying competitive when the odds shift against you, drawn from Janet's own documented athletic and professional history.
Few speakers can connect personal championship experience to the organizational future of the Olympic movement. Janet does both.
Topics, sessions and talks
Janet Evans won her first Olympic gold at 15 and held world records across three freestyle distances for nearly two decades. In this keynote, she opens up the system behind those results: the training discipline, the competitive preparation, and the mindset that allowed her to perform under the highest possible stakes across multiple Games. Powered by her inspirational storytelling, Janet offers a structured breakdown of what elite performance actually requires and how those principles translate directly to building championship cultures in organizations.
Janet Evans made her Olympic comeback at the age of 40. In this session, she explores what that decision required: the physical preparation, the psychological reset, and the willingness to be a beginner again after two decades at the top. She draws on that experience to address the questions most leaders and teams face: how to sustain performance across career phases, how to adapt when your environment changes, and how to approach long-term goals with the patience that elite athletics demands.
As Chief Athlete Officer for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, Janet Evans is shaping how a global event serves the athletes who compete in it. In this session, she draws on both her athlete experience and her current executive role to explore the organizational challenges of operating at scale: how to align thousands of stakeholders around a shared goal, how to make decisions under time pressure, and how to build systems that perform consistently when the entire world is watching.
Janet Evans brings four Olympic gold medals and nearly two decades of world records to any conversation about sustained elite performance, and her current role shaping LA28 from the inside gives that experience real organizational weight. For a client focused on long-term competitive culture or navigating a major institutional moment, she is one of the few speakers who can speak to both the athlete mindset and the machinery behind a global sporting event.
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Janet Evans structures her sessions around a breakdown of the systems behind documented results — training discipline, competitive preparation, and psychological reset — drawing on her own athletic record and current executive role to translate elite performance principles into organisational frameworks.
Janet Evans speaks on elite performance systems and championship culture, career longevity and long-game thinking, and large-scale organisational leadership through her role shaping the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. She won four Olympic gold medals across the 1988 and 1992 Games, broke seven world records across three freestyle distances, and currently serves as Chief Athlete Officer for LA28.
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