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.

Portrait-style speaker image of Lornette Daye in an ivory blazer.

40+

Years of Inspiring Impact

500+

Athletes Coached

150+

International Competitors

Global

Impact

Bureau 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.

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