Empowering Yourself to Create Your Best Performance: Karen Furneaux at TEDxMSVUWomen

Karen Furneaux is a 3-Time Olympian and 2-Time World Champion and winner of over 50 World Cup Medals! Karen is a 2-time Finalist for Canada's Female Athlete of the Year and 4-Time winner Nova Scotia Female Athlete of the Year and has been honoured with Queen Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Medal, the 2013 recipient of the Progress Women of Excellence Award for Health and Wellness as well as the Charles Yatzman Award for Sports Person of the Americas. Karen completed her Masters of Science Degree from Dalhousie University in Kinesiology, with specialization in Sport Psychology. She holds multiple certifications, and has undergone extensive Team and Leadership training through Cornell University. In 2010, Karen founded a pro-active corporate health and wellness company, I Promise Performance, Inc., which guides companies and its employees to create and sustain a high performance environment through wellness programming. She has been communicating the importance of goal setting and stress management for more than 10 years. Karen's mission is to teach Nova Scotians and fellow Canadians the skills and daily habits necessary to perform at one's chosen profession while also achieving balance in life, creating a personal best performance.

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