Lisa "Longball" Vlooswyk
Motivational & Peak Performance Speaker; Eight-Time National Long Drive Golf Champion
How can you stay at the top of your game and perform at the highest level, year after year? Eight-time National Long Drive Champion Lisa “Longball” Vlooswyk, went from being a high-handicap recreational golfer to a professional player, ranked second in the world. In her highly-customized presentations, Lisa shows audiences the keys to achieving peak performance. With valuable lessons drawn from her experiences, Lisa’s insights can be immediately implemented to create success.
Lisa was the first woman to hit a golf ball over the length of three and a half NFL Football fields and currently holds the Canadian Women’s Long Drive Record at 350 yards, 2 feet, 2 inches. Lisa now runs her own Golf Schools in Canada and the United States.
When not teeing-up, Lisa is a golf and travel journalist who writes regularly for several publications. She has also worked as a sports broadcaster for the Canadian Long Drive Series, and has had her own column in Golf Digest Canada, entitled “Ask Lisa Longball.”
As a speaker, Lisa’s clients have included Telus, IBM, Agrium, Bayer Crop Science, SAP, the Canadian Home Builders Association, Sysco, Royal LePage, Circle K, and many more..
- Change | Change Mgmt.
- Communication
- Inspiring Stories
- Marketing & Branding
- Motivational Speakers
- Performance & Productivity
- Resiliency
- Sports Figures
- Team-Work & Collaboration
- Women of Influence
D.E.I. : Finding Success as a Woman in a Predominantly Male Industry +
This talk focusses on Lisa's story as a woman forging her way in a male-dominated industry. In this inspiring presentation Lisa discusses the challenges and adversity overcome, and empowers women to persevere, culiminating in success regardless of industry. --
Drive Determines Distance: Adapt & Capitalize on Change, Reach Your Peak Performance +
In this engaging presentation, Lisa explains how she went from a high-handicap recreational adult golfer to being ranked second in the world and one of the longest hitters on the planet. Drawing on her incredible golfing background, she imparts tips and insights about discovering what drives you, and how being clear and committed to that purpose determines how far you will go and what success you are able to achieve both professionally and personally.
This presentation helps audiences find clarity in the areas of:
- Intrinsic Motivation – Identifying what are you passionate about and what truly DRIVES you.
- Goal Setting – Actionable strategies on how to set goals, challenge your limits and meet and exceed your targets.
- Overcoming Obstacles – You WILL have setbacks and difficulties. Proven steps on how to persevere and thrive in challenging changing times.
- Collaboration – Teamwork and communication are vital to success. Learn the value of surrounding yourself with people who support you and how to support others.
Lisa not only shares humorous stories to help audience members relate and connect with her key messages, she also gives concrete and effective take away strategies that can be implemented immediately to reignite personal drive and productivity. --
E.M.P.O.W.E.R Not Cower: Seven Tips To Be Successful +
We have two choices in every decision we make and on every path we chose—we can either avoid change from fear or complacency or face it head on.
This keynote focuses on action and being decisive based on Lisa’s “E.M.P.O.W.E.R” acronym. She shares tips and strategies to help audiences stay motivated, focused, healthy, resilient and successful.
- E: ENABLE: Stop wishing and start working
- M: MIXING MEN AND WOMEN: Gender roles and communication play a huge part in the work place and in life. Lisa explains what you need to know.
- P: PRESENCE: What image you put out there in person and via social media brands who you are, how you are viewed, and the role you play in your organization.
- O: OWN: Stop blaming others for your situation. Fix it.
- W: WOMEN: Dynamics between women in an organization or personally can be incredibly strong and positive or toxic. Here’s what you need to know.
- E: EQUIP: What are your goals and what skills, advice, support do you need to make them happen? Are you doing it?
- R: RESILIENT: You are going to have set backs. How you deal with them will determine if you grow or flounder. --
Golf as a Key Business/Networking Skill: Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts +
Are you invited to corporate and/or charity golf tournaments with clients, colleagues, customers or vendors? Do you take clients on the golf course for networking or customer appreciation rounds? If so, this is a must see session. Lisa “Longball” Vlooswyk, 8-Time Canadian Long Drive Champion, will go over the “Top 10 Dos and Don’ts” for client golf to help you make the most of your networking time with your client and help promote future business. --
Golf Instruction Tips From The Stage to Help You Impress Your Clients/Customers on the Course +
This is a once in a life time experience to learn golf tips, tricks and techniques from Lisa “Longball” Vlooswyk”, an 8-time Canadian Long Drive Champion.
Golf is a key business and networking skill along with a great active living, family, and social sport. Four and half hours on the course with your client, customer, or colleague is far more valuable than a business lunch and will help build and solidify your key business relationships.
People do business with people they know, like, and trust. After a round on the course there are always, stories and laughs to be shared in the clubhouse, in turn, developing your working relationship.
Lisa will conduct an entertaining and educational swing clinic from the stage that will guarantee all audience members from beginners to single digit handicaps to have takeaways to help them improve their game immediately. Feeling more confident on the golf course will lead to accepting or extending more business golf invitations..--
Golf Extras: On the Course: Power Tips Golf Clinic +
8-Time Canadian Long Drive Champion, Lisa “Longball” Vlooswyk will give a one hour Power Tips Clinic to attendees.
Lisa has performed this clinic on the PGA Tour and Champions’ Tour to rave reviews. It is fun, entertaining and, most importantly, educational. Lisa will offer a boatload of tips, tricks and techniques to not only improve your game but also add distance to your drives.
Beginner golfers to single digit handicap players will all find valuable takeaways that will immediately improve their game. Lisa will provide a valuable Tip Sheet for attendees to take home to review the top tips from the clinic. This is a clinic your attendees will be talking about long after the conference is over.
**In addition to Lisa’s Power Tips Clinic, Lisa could play a hole with each foursome/or a shot, and give tips to each guest. If there is a major sponsor, Lisa could also play all 18 holes with key players, offering a once in a lifetime experience to play with a professional world class golfer. --
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Out of all of the speakers that we have engaged over the past number of years, I have never had so many individuals comment to me afterwards how much they enjoyed the key note segment.
Firstly, Lisa’s energy was infectious. She can’t help but captivate the audience via her stage presence. Her stories and messages were compelling to every person in the room which included: Millennials, seasoned employees and the upper echelon (GMs, VPs, Senior Account Managers) of our professional vendor community. I was also impressed by the level of research that Lisa had undertaken prior to arriving at our Conference. She had taken the time to learn about our group, my personal leadership philosophy and the values that we pride ourselves upon as we build our Western Canada team business culture. She truly went above and beyond. Just fantastic!
–Vice-President of Operations, Mac’s/Circle K Convenience Stores Western Canada
Out of all of the speakers that we have engaged over the past number of years, I have never had so many individuals comment to me afterwards how much they enjoyed the key note segment.
Firstly, Lisa’s energy was infectious. She can’t help but captivate the audience via her stage presence. Her stories and messages were compelling to every person in the room which included: Millennials, seasoned employees and the upper echelon (GMs, VPs, Senior Account Managers) of our professional vendor community. I was also impressed by the level of research that Lisa had undertaken prior to arriving at our Conference. She had taken the time to learn about our group, my personal leadership philosophy and the values that we pride ourselves upon as we build our Western Canada team business culture. She truly went above and beyond. Just fantastic!
–Vice-President of Operations, Mac’s/Circle K Convenience Stores Western Canada
We were most fortunate to host Lisa during our PGA Champions Tour event in October, and she was outstanding during her motivational speech to the Rock Barn Ladies Golf Association and her “Long Drive Golf Clinic.” The audience was spell bound with her enthusiasm, humor, inspiration and phenomenal delivery skills. She is a joy to work with and when she comes to an event to present, she is not an in and out presenter. She wants to be an integral part of the event experience and totally integrates herself into all of the activities. She was the talk of the event! She participated in our Official Pro-Am and was a highlight of the 448 amateurs and the 81 Professional Golfers who participated. We highly recommend Lisa as a keynote presenter if you are looking for motivational messages, have a golf component within your program because she gives a tremendous golf exhibition as well, or if you are seeking to share and showcase an individual who has set goals, is driven and has concrete achievements to showcase due to determination and hard work.
–PGA Tour Champion’s Tour Greater Hickory Classic
Lisa was one of the Keynote Speakers at our National Conference this past November and she was absolutely one of the highlights of the event! Lisa’s energy and passion on the stage was infectious! I was extremely impressed with the research Lisa did on the event and the lengths that she went to personalize her presentation to connect with our audience. Lisa was our first speaker of the conference and our delegates raved about her message and engagement with the audience for the rest of the conference. The standing ovation Lisa received was very well-deserved. I would, without hesitation, highly recommend Lisa as a Keynote Speaker for any organization who is looking for a Speaker who will be entertaining, impactful and memorable.
–Chief Operating Officer, NGCOA Canada
Lisa is an engaging and enthusiastic speaker who takes the time to get to know her audience and personalizes her message for maximum impact. She showed a genuine interest in Advocis, our members and the financial planning industry.
It is easy to see how her work principles can be applied in any business and be rewarded with positive results. She addresses not only her successes but also failures in a very entertaining and inspiring way. It’s a pleasure to listen to someone who is so passionate about what they do. After the formal presentation she stayed to talk to audience members, pose for pictures and spend time with our guests.
Thank you, Lisa for the valuable contribution you made in making our Christmas Luncheon a success. The life stories, enthusiasm and time you shared with us was fantastic and appreciated!
–Advocis