Jennifer Botterill

Olympic Gold Medalist | Hockey Analyst, Hockey Night in Canada

Business Strategy Athletes Female Business Leaders Female Speakers

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Jennifer Botterill is a consummate professional who brings a high-performance mindset to every opportunity. As one of Canada’s most celebrated athletes, she is a three-time Olympic Gold Medalist who has successfully translated her on-ice success into a career in broadcasting and business. Today, Jennifer Botterill is a top hockey analyst for the NHL’s biggest events. She holds the unique distinction of being the only NHL analyst on the main panel for national networks in both Canada (Sportsnet) and the USA (Warner Media/TNT). In 2025, the Hockey Hall of Fame inducted Botterill into the Player Category.

A legendary hockey career began her legacy of excellence. Jennifer Botterill was a member of the Canadian National Women’s Hockey Team for 14 years. During that time, she amassed four Olympic medals (including three gold) and five World Championships, where she was twice named MVP. Her collegiate career at Harvard University was equally historic. She graduated with an Honors degree and became the only two-time winner of the Patty Kazmaier award for the top female player in U.S. college hockey.

Since retiring from the ice, Jennifer Botterill has become one of hockey’s most insightful media voices. She is a prominent analyst on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada and appears regularly on Sportsnet’s and TNT’s NHL coverage. A true trailblazer, she was also part of NBC’s first-ever all-women NHL broadcast team. Her sharp analysis and deep knowledge have made her a respected and influential figure in the world of sports media.

Beyond the broadcast booth, Jennifer Botterill is a dedicated entrepreneur and business leader. As CEO of two successful companies, Excel in Life Inc. and Journey to Excel Inc., she provides performance coaching to empower others. Furthermore, she serves on the Board of Directors for CCM Hockey, bringing her invaluable experience to the iconic brand. She continually gives back to her community through charity work and as an ambassador for Right to Play.

As a keynote speaker, Jennifer Botterill draws on her incredible journey to deliver powerful and engaging presentations. She shares practical strategies for achieving sustainable high performance, thriving in changing environments, and leading with resilience. Overall, she leaves audiences inspired to pursue their own excellence in business and in life.

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Speaking Topics: Jennifer Botterill

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.