Alisa Camplin is Australia’s first female Winter Olympic Gold Medallist and a respected leader across sport, business and high performance. Alisa achieved her Olympic gold in Freestyle Aerial Skiing at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, completing a triple twisting double somersault just six weeks after breaking both ankles. She went on to win the World Championships, hold the World Number 1 Grand Prix ranking for multiple years and return from major injury to win Olympic Bronze in Turin in 2006.
Alisa brings a rare combination of elite athletic experience, corporate leadership and governance expertise. She served as Chef de Mission for the 2026 Australian Winter Olympic Team, following previous leadership roles at the Beijing 2022 and PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Games. She continues to mentor Olympic medallists, coaches and emerging leaders in high-performance environments.
Before her full-time focus on human performance and leadership, Alisa built a successful 16-year corporate career with IBM across Australia and the UK, leading teams in sales, delivery, strategy and transformation. Today she collaborates with globally recognised academics, behavioural scientists and psychologists, coaching executives and senior leaders to achieve sustainable success through resilience, mindset and wellbeing.
Alisa is an experienced Non-Executive Director and currently serves on the Boards and Audit Committees of several prominent organisations, including the Australian Olympic Committee and the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia, where she is Deputy Chair. Her previous roles include Federal Government Commissioner for the Australian Sports Commission, Chair of the Australian Sports Foundation and Director of the Collingwood Football Club and the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.
In 2011, Alisa and her husband Oliver founded Finnan’s Gift in memory of their first child, Finnan. The charity has raised more than 3.5 million dollars for paediatric cardiac care in Australia. Alisa holds an Honorary Doctorate from Edith Cowan University, is a Member of the Order of Australia and the first female Patron of the Collingwood Football Club.
Alisa’s story demonstrates that success comes from clarity, discipline and adaptability. Her keynotes blend high-performance psychology with practical tools that help audiences lift themselves, improve their resilience and take purposeful action. Corporate audiences value her authenticity, energy and ability to translate elite performance principles into strategies that build capability and drive results.
Talking Points
Setting up for Sustainable Success
Harness the power of planning, attention to detail and preparation for success in order to achieve what's important to you and your team.Setting up for Sustainable Success
Push beyond your comfort zone with big dreams and a detailed roadmap to achieve them! Ignore the 'naysayers' and break new ground with clear intention, deliberate focus and passion.
Understand how to practically pivot, step through challenges, and re-energise yourself physically, mentally and emotionally.
Gain insights into how athletes "practice" to master their craft, love learning and achieve excellence.
Key themes include goal planning and achievement, resilience, scenario planning and risk mitigation, working hard AND smart, and leading others.
Resilience in Action
Resilience is a "doing" word and a skill that can be learned and strengthened through practise. Alisa shares the practical tools and techniques she's used to seize opportunities and work through barriers to success in sport, business and life.Resilience in Action
Improve your ability to accept, cope and thrive through the 'highs and lows' of life, including how to embrace change, reframe challenges and re-build yourself after adversity.
Understand how to develop self belief, invest in wellbeing and recovery, evolve your mindset, and work with the right people to proactively strengthen your own resilience and ability to achieve.
Key themes include purpose and passion, overcoming setbacks, planning, practise, prioritisation, motivation and accountability.
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Alisa Camplin - Keynote Speaker Showreel
Australia's first female Winter Olympic Gold Medallist, Alisa Camplin, possesses that rare story-telling ability that inspires, entertains and transfers knowledge. Tens of thousands of people have been motivated, laughed and cried, and walked away with a toolkit of practical, implementable skills to create their own success after listening to one of Australia's premier female speakers.Alisa Camplin - High Flyer: Aerial Skiing Olympic Gold
Defying the odds, and with greater courage and character than you'd ever imagine, be prepared to laugh and cry as you hear the real story behind Alisa Camplin's unbelievable journey to Olympic Gold.Alisa Camplin - Telstra International Kickoff 2019
Olympic Champion and Resilience, Wellbeing, and High-Performance Keynote Speaker, Alisa Camplin, engages and teaches the Telstra International Kickoff audience how to do an Olympic Gold-winning aerial jump.Alisa Camplin Virtual Speaking Session in Her Home Studio 2020
Fully committed to engaging, motivating, and educating audiences about resilience and wellbeing for personal and professional growth and development during these trying times, Olympic Champion and Resilience, Wellbeing, and High-Performance Keynote Speaker, Alisa Camplin, delivers seamless, professional, high-energy and impactful 45- to 60-minute virtual keynote speeches, panels and intensive Q&As to individuals and organisations via MS Teams and Zoom to the delight of all her clients.Alisa was one of the best speakers we have hosted at these events her presentation was unique and certainly inspiring. She was professional and arrived early to chat with our guests, whic ... keep reading ESV Group
Alisa Camplin spoke at a Melbourne Convention and Visitors Bureau (MCVB) Member Event we held at the Circus Oz Spiegeltent in Docklands. Alisa was an expert speaker who captured our audience and took them on a journey through the highs and lows of her sporting, professional and personal life. Alisa was easy to listen to, relatable and inspiring and many of our guests have commented to me in the days since the event about what an excellent motivational speaker they found her to be. Prior to the event Elisa was great to deal with, very approachable and flexible. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her to others.
Alisa was well prepared and extremely engaging.
Alisa was brilliant as always.
The audience loved her. She is very enthusiastic, engaging, positive, interactive and a very nice person to deal with. Our internal stakeholders were so happy with her that they are now looking at booking her again.
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