Novembre 5, 2014

The last word to Chandra Crawford and Sylvie Bernier



 

Chandra Crawford, is a music-loving mountain girl born and raised in Canmore, Alberta. In 2005 she founded "Fast and Female," an organization dedicated to the empowerment of girls through sport that reaches 2000 girls annually all over North America.   

 

In 2006 Chandra won Olympic Gold in cross-country skiing and captured the hearts of Canadians when she belted out the national anthem from the top step of the podium.

    

In March 2014 she retired from ski racing after three Olympics and 13 years of international ski racing with the Canadian National Team. Five months later she started her Executive MBA program at the University of Calgary to become a better leader for Fast and Female, enter the world of business, and expand her career options.   

 

To learn more about Chandra Crawford, visit her website.

 

Following her athletic career, Sylvie Bernier earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in International Health Management. For more than 15 years, she was a feature reporter for Salut, Bonjour!, a popular morning television show in Québec, covering subjects relating to family and healthy living.

 

She contributed to Canadian media coverage of the Olympic Games from 1988 to 2004. She has been Canadian Assistant Chef de Mission for Canada the Olympics in Turin, Italy in 2006 as well in London, England in 2012, and was Chef de Mission in Beijing, China in 2008.

 

Since 2012, she has been working as Québec en Forme’s Healthy Lifestyle Ambassador, lending her training and celebrity to influence decision-makers and key community actors to use their power to positively affect youth healthy lifestyle habits.

 

To learn more about Sylvie Bernier, visit her website.