Alisa Camplin AM OLY
Olympic Champion, Company Director, High Performance & Wellbeing Expert, 2026 Australian Winter Olympic Chef de Mission
Australia’s first female Winter Olympic gold medallist, Alisa Camplin is an experienced Company Director and globally respected high-performance and wellbeing expert. Drawing on elite sport, boardroom leadership and deep personal resilience, she helps leaders and organisations achieve repeatable, sustainable success through mindset, wellbeing and human performance.
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Alisa Camplin OAM is best known for winning Australia’s first ever Winter Olympic gold medal in freestyle aerial skiing at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, where she famously landed a triple-twisting double somersault just six weeks after breaking both ankles. Demonstrating extraordinary mental toughness, Alisa went on to overcome the pressure of repeat success, winning World Championship gold, holding the World No.1 Grand Prix ranking for multiple seasons, and securing Olympic bronze at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics—just four months after her second major knee reconstruction. Remarkably, her journey from never having seen snow to standing atop the Olympic podium took just eight years.
Beyond elite sport, Alisa has built a distinguished career in leadership, governance and human performance. She was the Australian Winter Olympic Team Chef de Mission for the 2026 Milano–Cortina Winter Games, having previously served as Deputy Chef de Mission for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and as Sport Performance Manager for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. She continues to mentor Olympic medallists, coaches and emerging leaders across sport and administration.
Alisa also enjoyed a highly successful 16-year corporate career with IBM Australia and the United Kingdom, working across sales, delivery, strategy and large-scale transformation. She held senior leadership roles across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland, including Head of Strategy and Transformation for IBM Global Technology Services UK & Ireland.
Today, Alisa works closely with leading academics, behavioural scientists, neuroscientists and organisational psychologists. She has consulted to and coached hundreds of C-suite executives and emerging leaders globally, supporting organisations of all sizes to build repeatable, sustainable success by improving wellbeing, resilience, mindset and human performance.
A deeply experienced Non-Executive Director, Alisa currently serves on the boards and audit committees of several high-profile organisations, including the Australian Olympic Committee and the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia, where she is Deputy Chair. Her previous governance roles include Deputy Chair of the Australian Sports Commission, Chair of the Australian Sports Foundation, and Non-Executive Director of the Collingwood Football Club and the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation (Melbourne).
In 2011, Alisa and her husband Oliver founded the charity Finnan’s Gift following the loss of their first-born son to congenital heart disease. Since its inception, the charity has raised over $3.5 million to support paediatric cardiac care across Australia.
Alisa holds a Bachelor of Information Technology and an Honorary Doctorate from Edith Cowan University. She is a Member of the Order of Australia and the first female Patron of the Collingwood Football Club. Having lived and worked in London, Hong Kong and Singapore, Alisa now resides in Melbourne with her husband and two children.
As a keynote speaker, Alisa draws powerfully on stories from both the Olympic arena and the boardroom. With a fresh, authentic and practical approach, she breaks down performance psychology and shows how high performers consistently plan, prepare and adapt through adversity. More than an inspiring story of courage and resilience, Alisa connects deeply with audiences and equips them with tools that create lasting change—helping individuals and organisations believe that better is not only possible, but achievable.
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Setting up for Sustainable Success
- Harness the power of planning, attention to detail and preparation for success in order to achieve what’s important to you and your team.
- Push beyond your comfort zone with big dreams and a detailed roadmap to achieve them! Ignore the ‘naysayers’ and break new ground with clear intention, deliberate focus and passion.
- Understand how to practically pivot, step through challenges, and re-energise yourself physically, mentally and emotionally.
- Gain insights into how athletes “practice” to master their craft, love learning and achieve excellence.
- Key themes include goal planning and achievement, resilience, scenario planning and risk mitigation, working hard AND smart, and leading others.
Alisa Camplin: Resilience in Action
- Resilience is a “doing” word and a skill that can be learned and strengthened through practise. Alisa shares the practical tools and techniques she’s used to seize opportunities and work through barriers to success in sport, business and life.
- Improve your ability to accept, cope and thrive through the ‘highs and lows’ of life, including how to embrace change, reframe challenges and re-build yourself after adversity.
- Understand how to develop self belief, invest in wellbeing and recovery, evolve your mindset, and work with the right people to proactively strengthen your own resilience and ability to achieve.
- Key themes include purpose and passion, overcoming setbacks, planning and practise, prioritisation, motivation and accountability to lead and perform.
