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Waneek Horn-Miller
Strengthen resilience, Indigenous reconciliation, and inclusive leadership with Waneek Horn-Miller, Olympic water polo co-captain and mental health advocate. Waneek works with organisations to build workplace wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, and trauma-informed leadership, delivering powerful storytelling recognized globally including TIME magazine.
Waneek Horn-Miller is a Mohawk athlete, advocate and storyteller whose life's work sits at the intersection of Indigenous rights, Olympic sport and community resilience. Waneek made history as the first Mohawk woman to compete in the Olympics, co-captaining Canada's water polo team at the 2000 Sydney Games. She appeared on the cover of TIME magazine and has become one of Canada's most recognized voices on reconciliation and Indigenous perseverance.
Waneek's story carries a weight that few speakers can match. At 14, she was stabbed by a Canadian soldier during the Oka Crisis. Ten years to the day of that attack, she walked into the Olympic arena as team co-captain. That journey, from trauma to triumph on a global stage, gives her a rare authority when she speaks about mental health, recovery, and what it actually takes to reclaim your own narrative. Her audiences see the proof of that resilience firsthand.
Those who attend Waneek's sessions leave with a grounded understanding of reconciliation as a living practice, practical insight into overcoming adversity without minimizing its cost, and a renewed sense of what collective strength looks like when it is put into action.
Book Waneek Horn-Miller to give your audience a story they will carry with them long after they leave the room.
Waneek pairs Olympic-level achievement with first-hand experience of trauma and recovery, giving her a distinct voice on resilience and Indigenous reconciliation. For organisations building trauma-informed leadership or marking reconciliation initiatives, her story offers credibility and practical takeaways for staff.
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