Chloë McCardel - Sports Heroes - Motivational Speaker and “The Greatest Ultra ...

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2XU: Human Performance Multiplied

Learn the easily transferable mental skills Chloë employs during training, preparation and her marathon swims which have and continue to set her on course for world class success. Chloë clearly demonstrates how these can be adapted and used in your personal and professional life to lift your results to new heights. Read less

Beyond Your Limits: Achieve extraordinary results

Chloë reveals her personal insights into how she works, in practice, to achieve Extraordinary Results from both a big picture and day to day perspective. She shares with you how you too can create these Extraordinary Results in your personal and professional life. Topics include purpose, vision, goal setting, excellence, environment, feedback and more. Read less

Creating Team Synergy for Outstanding Results

Chloë has created, on very small budgets, numerous teams from around the world to support her marathon swims and support many of the 150 swimmers she has coached to swim the English Channel. She shares how she integrates cutting edge leadership theories into her leadership style to enrol and select team members who not only work well together but who also create synergy. Synergy is the concept of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. In teams it is where individuals working effectively together, create a result which is over and beyond what is possible individually. Read less

Resilience and Endurance

Chloë shares her deeply personal experiences of failure on the international marathon stage and how she used these experiences to propel her to further success. Key messages include reframing failures as learning experiences (feedback) and building emotional capital and skills to bounce back after disappointment. Also includes: navigating obstacles, and negative people. Read less

Swimming Through the Glass Ceiling

Chloë shares her trials and tribulations of raising over 1 million dollars in capital and enrolling support to reach success in the trillion dollar international male dominated industry of professional sport. Achieving cut through in an industry which saturates the media with and largely only pays for sporting prowess which glorify mens performance, Chloë shares her drive to get her low profile sport of marathon swimming and womens performance in front of camera and into the minds and hearts of people across the globe. Read less

Chloë McCardel

Motivational Speaker and “The Greatest Ultra-Marathon Swimmer in History”

Chloë is a marathon swimmer and globally sought-after motivational speaker who holds multiple marathon swimming World Records. She has become well-known for pushing the boundaries of marathon swimming and what the human mind and body can achieve.

Described as the greatest ultra-marathon swimmer in history, Chloë was inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 2016 as its youngest member and was awarded the prestigious ‘Poseidon Award’. She was also awarded the 2014 and 2015 Marathon Swimmers Federation ‘Solo Swim of the Year (Female)’ and has received 24 awards and plates from the Channel Swimming Association for her English Channel achievements.

In 2020, Chloë swam her 37^th crossing of the English Channel, beating the Men’s World Record of 34 channel crossings and swimming a total distance of 1,258 kilometres. She has coached over 150 people to swim the English Channel and uses her platform to advocate on behalf of domestic violence victims. She was named one of Marie Claire’s Women of The Year in 2020 for her record-breaking 35^th Channel swim and her advocacy work.

In the following year, Chloë set a new record for swimming the English Channel after completing her 44^th crossing. She swam for 10 hours from Kent in south-eastern England to the French commune of Audinghen, beating her idol Alison Streeter’s record of 43 crossings.

Chloë also holds the record of the longest unassisted ocean swim for swimming 124 kilometres from South Eleuthera Island to the Bahamas and conquering a non-stop triple crossing of the Channel in 2015. This feat took almost 37 hours to complete. She has been recognised by numerous swimming organisations, including the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF), International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF), Marathon Swimmers Federation (MSF) and the Channel Swimming Association (CSA) for her outstanding achievements.

As a globally sought-after motivational speaker, Chloë’s unique insights leave her audiences captivated and inspired by her stories of overcoming challenges and huge accomplishments. Ultimately, she seeks to inspire her audience and lead them onto a path of health and action, pushing them to reach their potential.

Chloë’s work as a speaker has taken her worldwide. She has presented to business, at corporate events, conferences, schools and community events to clients such as Blue Sky Alternative Investments Ltd., Citrix, Intel, Optus and Westpac.

She constantly challenges herself to be stronger physically and mentally. From her personal experiences, she has found that endurance training helped her through those challenging periods, and fitness has become a vital part of her program. Chloë is a firm believer that wellbeing, confidence and perseverance are foundational in chasing our dreams. She knows the trials and tribulations involved in launching into a journey towards a goal and has had plenty of experience with failure. However, Chloë also knows how to channel these experiences into a more powerful drive and is keen to show her audiences how they can do the same.

Chloë’s incredible feats in the water and her powerful messaging have been aired on all the major Australian networks and to international audiences via BBC and CNN.

Testimonial

As one of the greatest ultra-marathon swimmers ever, Chloë McCardel tells a powerful story of endurance and perseverance. Having defied the odds of what humans are capable of achieving, Chloë’s story is brilliantly motivational and encourages us all to be more disciplined in whatever we choose to pursue. She delivers her speeches with a refreshingly positive attitude despite the hardship faced on her path to success. Chloë will inspire and relate to anyone with a goal to achieve.

Westpac Group

Presenting to financial and IT industry leaders, including Westpac, Optus, Veda and Intel, Chloë McCardel had a profound impact describing the extraordinary experiences and unfathomable challenges she has faced and overcome in ultra-marathon swimming. With a uniquely engaging ability to incorporate these experiences back to the corporate world, Chloë will both inspire and motivate you to achieve goals beyond what you thought was possible.

There are very few people on the planet genuinely pushing the boundaries of human endeavour. Chloë McCardel is someone who inspires and astounds her audience with tales of achievement and suffering beyond anything most can imagine, all with a smile on her face. She is an Australian icon.

Blue Sky Alternative Investments Ltd.