Travels From New South Wales
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chloë McCardel
Ultra-marathon Swimmer and Motivational Speaker
Chloë McCardle is a marathon swimmer and a globally sought-after motivational speaker. Her unique insights are chronicled in her talks; she shares enthralling stories of overcoming challenge and of huge accomplishment. Chloë seeks to inspire. To lead her audience onto a path of health and action. To push people to reach their potential.
In 2020, she swam her 37th crossing of the English Channel, beating the Men’s World Record of 34 channel crossings. That’s a total distance of 1,258km of swimming. Chloë uses her media coverage to shine a light on and advocate for women experiencing domestic violence. She was also one of Marie Claire’s 2020 Women of the Year.
“Many might think that what I do needs superhuman strength but at one point in my life I was very vulnerable and suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD). Endurance training has helped me through those challenging periods in my life. I hope my efforts will inspire others – whoever they are and whatever their circumstances – to stay strong and resilient in these difficult times.”
Core to Chloë’s program is FITNESS. She’s constantly challenging herself to be stronger and more powerful – on a physical and mental level. She knows, having had firsthand experience, that wellbeing, confidence and perseverance are foundational in chasing our dreams.
The strength on both a physical and mental level required to achieve sustained success over many years, that Chloë is so familiar with, translates in parallel fashion to the world of business. The trials and tribulations involved in launching into a journey towards a goal are very recognizable to Chloë; she has had plenty of experience with failure, but she knows how to channel these experiences into a more powerful drive. Her passion and determination are widely relevant to most people – whether it be a business goal, an athletic dream or a personal aspiration, Chloë’s advice is invaluable.
Chloë’s work as a speaker has taken her all over the world. She’s presented to businesses, at corporate events, conferences, schools and at community events. Her clients include Blue Sky Alternative Investments Ltd., Citrix, Intel, Optus, Westpac, and Veda.
Chloë provides a unique keynote presentation for each client. She is capable of presenting to audiences small and large and will take time to collaborate to ensure her presentation aligns with the key messaging of your event.
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.