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Yvonne Camus
Build resilience and high-performance teams with Yvonne Camus, leadership speaker and endurance athlete. Yvonne works with organizations to strengthen team performance, workplace resilience, and inclusion under pressure. First rookie team to complete Eco-Challenge; former COO of Canada's largest indoor cycling brand.
Yvonne Camus is a senior executive and endurance athlete who proved that preparation and persistence can overcome impossible odds, even those that defeated the U.S. Navy Seals.
As the sole female member on the first rookie team to complete the Eco-Challenge, the world championship of adventure racing created by Survivor's Mark Burnett, Yvonne defied zero-percent odds of finishing. She has also served as COO of SPINCO, Canada's largest indoor cycling brand, and previously led operations for World Health, overseeing more than 600 employees across multiple fitness companies.
Yvonne's combination of extreme endurance racing and two decades of executive leadership gives her a practical framework for high-performance outcomes. She translates the training, preparation, and execution strategies that carried her team through the world's most gruelling expedition into actionable principles for workplaces. Her approach helps organizations understand how grit and teamwork function under real pressure, not as abstract ideals but as repeatable practices.
Audiences leave Yvonne's talks with a clear understanding of how to build resilience when odds are stacked against them, how inclusion strengthens team performance in high-stakes environments, and how to structure preparation so that execution becomes instinctive rather than reactive. Her stories are punchy, deeply moving, and often genuinely funny.
Book Yvonne to show your team what becomes possible when preparation meets perseverance and zero-percent odds become a finish line.
Yvonne brings two decades of operational leadership and proven endurance racing credentials that translate directly into frameworks your teams can apply when facing long-odds projects or market pressure. Her work scaling SPINCO and completing challenges that defeated Navy SEALs gives her unusual credibility on resilience and high-stakes execution. She'll help your organisation build repeatable practices for performance under pressure rather than abstract motivation.
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Yvonne Camus draws on her experience completing the Eco-Challenge — the world championship of adventure racing — to illustrate how preparation, grit, and teamwork operate under real pressure, translating expedition-tested strategies into repeatable workplace practices.
Yvonne Camus speaks on resilience under pressure, high-performance teamwork, and preparation as an operational discipline. She was the sole female member of the first rookie team to complete the Eco-Challenge, the world championship of adventure racing created by Mark Burnett, finishing against odds that had defeated U.S. Navy Seals.
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