Alexandra Orlando: 5 Time Canadian Champion and Olympian on The Drive to Win | Sports to Business - a podcast by TBX Digital Inc.

Alexandra Orlando is the Director of Marketing at Panam Sports, a 5x Canadian National Champion, and an Olympian. She's also a Commonwealth Games record holder with 6 gold medals at a single event and 3x gold medalist at Pan Am Games.



Orlando won every rhythmic gymnastics event at the Canadian National Championships in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007.



She won all six rhythmic gymnastics events included as part of the gymnastics program at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.[2] She joined Graham Smith (1978, Edmonton), Susie O'Neill (1998, Kuala Lumpur) and Ian Thorpe (2002, Manchester) as the only competitors to win six gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games.[3]



After her sports career, Alex made a successful transition to corporate as a sports analyst at CBC, Senior Manager at Rogers Communications, and then taking on the role of Director at Panam Sports.



Some of the things we discuss in this episode:

       - Alex's career growing up and story behind almost becoming the youngest athlete to ever go the Olympics

       - Failures, adversity, and drive behind her world success and record-holding performances

       - The motivation behind always striving to improve in a single person sport

       - Transition to business and how being humble is the best strategy

       - Representation gap today across all major industries and what we need to do to make positive strides

       - How to thrive in a fast-paced, disruptive culture, by simply aligning your team to the mission

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