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Charmaine Crooks

Speaker

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Five-Time Olympian, Sports & Business Leader

Charmaine Crooks is a Member of the Order of Canada, Five time Olympian, and Olympic Silver medalist (LA ’84 Athletics) who has been an integral part of Canadian and global sport as a leader, innovator and advocate.

Keynote Speeches

Never Give Up! A Story of Perseverance & Passion

Achieving award-winning performances… on the field and in the office

 

Audience reviews:

  • Two months after the event, participants are still sending me notes, thanking me for the weekend. Your passion about your topics and your dynamic style of presenting left them feeling a renewed sense of empowerment.

    - YMCA of Greater Vancouver
 

Speaker Biography

Five Time Olympian and Olympic silver medalist (Athletics) Charmaine Crooks is a Member of the Order of Canada (C.M), and the Order of British Columbia (O.B.C). She is a community and sport advocate, corporate director, entrepreneur, and professional speaker.

Based in West Vancouver, she founded NGU Consultants Inc (1997), a global consultancy providing advisory services to a variety of sectors. An experienced corporate board director with over 25 year’s leadership and governance expertise serving on public and private boards in the entertainment, technology, sports, manufacturing, prop tech and wellness sectors.

Current non-profits include Canadian Olympic Foundation, The Black Opportunity Fund (Chair Governance Committee), BC Big Sisters Lower Mainland Honourary Board, Peace and Sport and the Canucks Autism Network.

She served on the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) Executive Board and chaired the COC Women in Sport Committee. Charmaine is also the former elected volunteer Chair of Canada Soccer and first women elected in it’s over 100 year history. She was a member of the Committee for FIFA Competitions and was appointed as the first female Match Commissioner at a FIFA Men’s World Cup in 2018. She was recently appointed to the FIFA Olympic Football Committee.

A former elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, she served on the IOC Athlete’s Commission, IOC Press Commission, IOC Culture/Education Commission, New Media working group, IOC 2000 Reform Commission and the founding IOC Ethics Committee.

As one of the founding members of the 2010 Olympic Winter and Paralympic Winter Games (Vanoc), she was the only board director to serve from the initial domestic and international bid phases, through to the successful end of the Games.

Charmaine is inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Athletics Hall of Fame and the University of Texas El Paso Sports Hall of Fame, where she attended on an Athletic scholarship. Numerous awards also include the IOC Women in Sport Trophy” ,and recognition as the first female BC Sports Personality of the Year and the Women’s Executive Business Networks(WXN) as one of Canada’s Top 100 most powerful women.