Dominique Maltais

Speaker, two-time Olympic medalist in snowboard cross and firefighter

Meet Dominique Maltais

Two-time Olympic medallist, bronze at Turin 2006 and silver at Sochi 2014, World Cup champion 2006-2011-2012-2013-2014, bronze medallist at the 2011 World Championships and runner-up at the 2013 World Championships, Dominique Maltais is one of the world’s top snowboarders. Professionally, she was a female firefighter with the Service de sécurité incendie de Montréal from 2002 to 2005. In 2024, Dominique Maltais was inducted into the Quebec Sports Hall of Fame.

A sought-after speaker, her personality, determination and athletic background enable her to share her experience with passion and enthusiasm. Having Dominique Maltais at your conference means injecting a big dose of “success” into all your participants.

Speaking topics of Dominique Maltais:

Olympic Athlete | Motivation, Success & Personal Growth

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Testimonials

Ce fut un plaisir d’accueillir Dominique! Tout était parfait! Elle était très bien préparée et son histoire est vraiment inspirante. Tout le monde était captivé et suspendu à ses lèvres. Et que dire de sa générosité : voir et toucher sa médaille et son globe de cristal était vraiment un privilège!

Les thèmes qu’elle a abordés (la résilience, être une femme dans un monde d’hommes) sont très bien ressortis car très bien illustrés. Mais là ou elle nous a vraiment rejoint, c’est en témoignant de ses valeurs. Valeurs qui ont renforcé nos convictions: croire en soi, vivre ses passions, oser, travailler en équipe, se dépasser… Son caractère très humain et approchable a permis à toutes et tous de vivre, ne serait-ce que quelques minutes, le rêve Olympique!

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Keynotes

environ 60 minutes
French and English
Rencontre de personnalisation incluse
Available in-person and virtually

In her presentations, Dominique Maltais shares her experience as an Olympic athlete and a professional in high-pressure environments. Motivation, resilience, and personal growth are at the heart of her talks, inspiring audiences to believe in their abilities, seize opportunities, and push beyond their limits.

Discover her conferences and see how they can energize and motivate your audience.

Living Your Passion on the Board

In her talk, Dominique talks about her two passions, being a firefighter and a skateboarder. At the same time, she explores the key elements of success. Against a backdrop of incredible images, you will be challenged to reflect on themes such as: going all out, seizing opportunities, living serenely through team changes, believing in yourself, staying confident and positive, questioning yourself, bouncing back after a big disappointment, physical and mental training and being ready when you need to be.

Without being moralistic and with a lot of enthusiasm, Dominique Maltais, speaker, excels at making the links between Olympic sport and professional life. Positive emotions guaranteed!

A Woman in a Man’s World

Dominique Maltais is no slouch. She has proved this time and time again, hurtling down snowboard cross slopes the world over. Beyond her Olympic career, in her everyday life Dominique Maltais is a firefighter.

This is no mean feat, as firefighting is often associated with male dominance due to the extraordinary physical abilities required. In fact, in Quebec, women firefighters represent only 4% of the entire profession.

Being a firefighter is not the only job where women are in the minority. But that’s changing!

Throughout her talk, which will also include a look back at her snowboard cross career, she will talk about how much she enjoys working with men.

On the menu:

Focus on training to acquire the necessary skills.
Tips and tricks for integrating into an existing team.
The importance of sticking with the positive leader.
Proving yourself with pride.
It’s all worth it.

Other suggestions:

Integrity in a male-dominated group
The importance of indifference and open-mindedness in the integration process
Seizing the right opportunities to make your mark

If you work in a field where women need to make their mark, Dominique’s talk “Une femme dans un monde d’hommes” (A woman in a man’s world) is sure to inspire you.

Technical requirements for Dominique Maltais:

Micro-casque

Petite table (pour déposer notes et bouteille d'eau)

Ordinateur PC / Le conférencier apporte sa présentation sur clé USB

(PowerPoint presentation)

* Le conférencier apporte son adapteur USB-C - HDMI

Sorties audio-vidéos (vidéos avec son)

Le conférencier apporte sa télécommande à distance

Connexion Internet

Moniteur de retour (si possible)

About Dominique Maltais

It was in Petite-Rivière-St-François, in the early 80’s, that little Dominique was born. Having grown up at the foot of the Massif of the same name, it was only natural that she should develop a taste for skiing at a very young age. From the age of six, she put on her skis and raced down the slopes all winter long.

At the age of eleven, she tries the new sport of snowboarding. Disaster! On her first run, she went down on her buttocks and arrived at the bottom crying. Her strength of character forces her to get back up and adapt to this new way of skiing.

From then on, at the slightest hint of snow, she went to the Massif and snowboarded from morning to night. Having always practised freely without competing, she decided to compete and it is from this moment that she chose a discipline, snowboard cross.

In 2002, she decided to fulfil a childhood dream of becoming a female firefighter. She enrolled in the CDNF, gave it her all and obtained her diploma. Hired by the city of Montreal, she worked full time as a firefighter until 2006. Following her successes in the World Cup and the Turin Olympics, she decided to put her job as a firefighter on hold to pursue her dreams of Olympic medals.

In 2006-2007, she missed much of the season due to injury, but still has her sights set on another podium finish at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. However, a bad fall in training prevented her from qualifying for the heats just half an hour before.

With Dominique Maltais, speaker, let’s erase and start again! She gets back to training, personalized training to improve her starts, speed and technique. Her efforts and determination were rewarded, and the following seasons were crowned with success.

She won two World Championship medals (bronze in 2011, silver in 2013), won gold at the 2012 Winter X Games and won five crystal globes in a row as World Cup Snowboard Cross Champion. She is the world’s number one snowboarder and won a silver medal in Sochi 2014.

Currently, Dominique pursues her two passions. She’s an operations and prevention captain with the City of Baie-Saint-Paul’s security department, and still snowboards in the slightest hint of a storm!

Palmares to date:

Intronisée au Temple de la renommée du Panthéon des sports du Québec en 2024
12 years on the national team
77 World Cup starts
39 World Cup podiums
15 World Cup victories
More than a hundred competitions total national + international
5X crystal globes
2X Female Athlete of the Year in Quebec
Several X Games participations + victory in 2012
3 participations in the Olympic Games
2 Olympic medals: 2006 bronze and 2014 silver (only snowboarder)

Clips and Interviews with Dominique Maltais

Excerpt from her conference

presented at our 2017 Speakers Showcase

Entrevue avec Dominique Maltais:

La passion

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