Early Start
After moving from Jamaica to Canada at ten, Lornette explored every sport she could. Track and Field became the passion that shaped her discipline and confidence.
About Lornette Daye
Purpose, performance, and impact.
Certified Toastmasters Speaker, Olympic-level Athlete & Coach, Canadian National Sprint Champion, Author, and Transformational Speaker with over 40 years of experience inspiring individuals, teams, and organizations to achieve excellence, resilience, and purpose-driven success.
40+
Years Speaking, Coaching & Mentoring
500+
Athletes Mentored and Coached
150+
International-Level Competitors Guided
Global
Perspective From Canada to the World
Biography
A credible voice for resilience, identity, faith, leadership, and community change.
Former National Track Champion (100m & 200m) | National Coach | Diversity Award Winner | Motivational Speaker | Thought Leader
Lornette Daye is a former track athlete, national coach, Diversity Award Winner, author, and motivational speaker whose credibility is grounded in elite athletic achievement, lived resilience, decades of mentorship, and measurable community impact.
Her athletic background includes multiple national and Western Canada Games titles in the 100m and 200m sprints, along with provincial and city championships. Her career as an elite athlete took her across Canada, the United States, and Europe, including Poland and Germany.
As a Black athlete in the 1970s, Lornette experienced tremendous adversity, including housing insecurity and discrimination. Those challenges became part of the foundation for her message on resilience, identity, faith, courage, and helping younger athletes rise through similar struggles.
Across decades as an elite competitor, national coach, entrepreneur, mentor, and author, Lornette has built the authority to speak to schools, organizations, churches, women, youth, athletes, founders, and community leaders who need practical tools for confidence, resilience, and purpose.
Timeline
A journey of discipline. A life of impact.
Elite Athlete
That passion became performance. Through discipline and focus, Lornette earned provincial and national titles, turning natural speed into a career shaped by resilience and purpose.
Coach & Mentor
Even while competing, Lornette made time to encourage others. As a coach, she spent more than two decades helping athletes grow in sport, school, confidence, and wellness.
Expanding Impact
After athletics, Lornette brought the same drive into corporate, nonprofit, and community work, helping organizations, families, and young athletes move forward with practical support.
Global Transformation
Today, as a certified speaker, Lornette uses her story to reach the whole person, helping audiences leave with greater clarity, courage, and belief.
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Lornette at the 1985 Canada Summer Games, winning the 200 metre sprint.
Lornette's athletic career is one of numerous accolades, winning high school championships, multiple Canada and Western Canada sprint events (including the one above), as well as regional competitions. Competing across Canada, the United States, and even Europe, her commitment to excellence took her far.
Mission
Unlock potential. Strengthen communities. Develop leaders.
Her mission is to help people rise through challenge, remember their worth, and move forward with purpose. True success is measured not only by personal accomplishments but by the lives we touch, the communities we strengthen, and the leaders we develop.
Professional Keynote Speaker
Olympic-level Athlete & Coach
Canadian National Sprint Champion
Certified Transformational Speaker
Author
Youth Leader & Mentor
Project Manager
Certified Toastmasters Speaker
Former National Track Champion (100m & 200m)
National Coach
Diversity Award Winner
Proud One Woman Member Speaker
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