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What can one of the world’s most accomplished endurance athletes teach your teams?
Sébastien has summited Mount Everest, run across the Sahara Desert, and cycled 21 hours a day for 12 days across the United States in the world’s toughest ultra-cycling race—all while managing type 1 diabetes. From each mind-blowing physical achievement, he pulls relevant parallels between athletics and the corporate world. Sébastien’s unique perspective on leadership and teamwork is galvanizing, inspiring organizations to set and achieve their own awe-inspiring goals.
Alter your organization’s trajectory with one of Sébastien’s motivational keynotes
Mission-Centered Leadership
Supercharge your leaders’ ambition and support them with the tools to take their team to the highest levels of performance. Sébastien’s inspirational leadership keynote will help your leaders create highly engaged teams who will give their all to achieve the mission.
Change, Agility, and Transformation
You’ve given your organization the tools to adapt and conquer — Sébastien provides the fuel. This energetic keynote with insights into his diverse athletic achievements compels your employees to embrace change to get ahead.
Teamwork and Performance
Sébastien knows a thing or two about achieving extraordinary results in challenging environments. This compelling keynote motivates organizations to build united teams that deliver exceptional performance under pressure.
Team Spirit
A dynamic keynote on teamwork delivered as a team. In this inspiring and unique format, Sébastien partners with team-building expert Gabriel Renaud to recount their journey in Race Across America and share how to galvanize a team around one mission.
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Keynote Experience
The immersive experience
Sébastien can turn any motivational keynote into a powerful audio-visual presentation, enveloping the audience with sights and sounds that create a deep emotional reaction — compelling leaders and teams to achieve remarkable goals.
« Galvanizing! Sebastien Sasseville gives a unique perspective and makes us rethink how we move towards our objectives. »
Leadership and teamwork expert. Motivational keynote speaker. Endurance athlete. Type 1 diabetes advocate. Sébastien Sasseville has many roles.
Sébastien’s real superpower isn’t climbing the tallest mountains on the planet or cycling the longest distances without any sleep (although he’s done both). It’s his ability to connect the insights that come out of the harshest physical challenges with the day-to-day obstacles leaders and teams experience in the corporate world.
An experienced speaker with over 1,000 keynotes delivered to Fortune 1,000 organizations across North America, Europe, and Asia, Sébastien’s stories do more than just motivate. They show leaders and teams how to dream big and win big.
« Sébastien Sasseville’s keynote inspired our leadership team at Airbus Canada in Mirabel, catalysing everyone’s potential to reach new heights. It was an unforgettable experience that propelled our organisation towards fresh horizons of success and innovation. »
AIRBUS
The first step is always the biggest step
Here’s how you can book Sébastien Sasseville.
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Schedule an exploratory call
Meet with Sébastien and together determine if he is the right keynote speaker for your organization’s event.
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Share your organization’s priorities
No keynote is ever the same. Sébastien tailors each keynote with the key messages that are important to your organization, leaders, and teams.
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Energize your people
Sit back and enjoy Sébastien’s performance as he shares awe-inspiring stories that compel your people to action.
See Sébastien in action
Motivational Speaker | Sébastien Sasseville
SÉBASTIEN SASSEVILLE | BRAVE STORY
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CLIMBING UP AND DOWN ON EVEREST
Actionable parallels between endurance sports and corporate life
Your Mount Everest may be landing a big client or coming up with an industry-leading innovation. Sébastien’s stories about his athletic pursuits — tailored to your organization’s key goals — are what leaders and teams need to reach their summit. No one wins alone, and Sébastien motivates your people to unite around one mission.
Summiting Mount Everest
On May 25, 2008, Sébastien Sasseville became the first Canadian with type 1 diabetes, and only the third type 1 diabetic in history, to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Running the Sahara Race
In October 2012, Sébastien ran the mythical Sahara Race in Egypt: a 250-kilometer ultramarathon, completed in five days across the world’s largest desert.
Cycling in Race Across America
In June 2022, Sébastien Sasseville became the second type 1 diabetic in history to finish Race Across America in the solo cyclist category.
Running across Canada
On February 2, 2014, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Sébastien Sasseville began a cross-Canada run: a 7,500 kilometer journey, equivalent to 180 marathons in nine months. The run ended in Vancouver, BC, on November 14, World Diabetes Day.
