Fee Range for Sébastien Sasseville
$10,001 - $15,000
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Running Across Canada: A Journey of Courage & Impact
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Esprit d'équipe
Quand Sébastien Sasseville, athlète atteint de diabète de type 1, a décidé de prendre part à la Race Across America en solo, il s’est lancé dans la course d’ultracyclisme la plus difficile au monde. Cette traversée des États-Unis d’ouest en est, dans un long contre la montre sans étape de 12 jours maximum, oblige les participants à rester en selle environ 21 heures sur 24. C’est un défi colossal qu’il est impossible d’accomplir sans le soutien d’une équipe.
Esprit d’équipe, c’est un récit captivant et inspirant. L’ouvrage porte d’abord et avant tout sur la collaboration et il est chargé d’outils concrets pour bâtir des équipes fortes et engagées.
One Step at a Time
In this book Sébastien Sasseville shares that he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, the most severe form of the disease, in 2002. Faced with this obstacle, he vowed that the condition would never keep him from living life to the fullest, and today his story is a testament to how challenges can be turned into opportunities.
In less than a decade, Sasseville reached the summit of Mount Everest and completed the legendary Sahara race. As if those accomplishments weren’t enough, he also ran across Canada, a spectacular 7,500-kilometre journey, equivalent to 180 marathons, in nine months. Sasseville has occupied diverse roles in Fortune 500 companies, allowing him to acquire an in-depth understanding of the corporate world and its most pressing business challenges.
Un pas à la fois: Choisir l'obstacle qui nous fait grandir
Sébastien Sasseville apprenait en 2002 qu’il est atteint du diabète de type 1, la forme la plus sévère de la maladie. Cette épreuve que lui impose la vie lui fait découvrir le pouvoir de l’obstacle, qu’il décide subséquemment de choisir activement en vue de grandir. La suite est admirable.
En moins d’une décennie, il atteint le sommet du mont Everest, participe à la mythique course du Sahara et traverse le Canada à la course dans un parcours spectaculaire de 7500 kilomètres en neuf mois équivalant à 180 marathons. Dans ce livre, Sébastien partage aujourd’hui ce qu’il a appris. Fort de son parcours remarquable, il propose des leçons personnelles et professionnelles d’une grande puissance.
Sébastien Sasseville
Athlete, Endurance Speaker on Leadership,
Teamwork, Peak Performance & Resiliency
About Sébastien Sasseville
Sébastien Sasseville is a bilingual keynote speaker based in Quebec City, delivering talks on leadership, teamwork, change management, and resilience.
Living with type 1 diabetes since 2002, he has completed some of the toughest endurance events in the world, including summiting Mount Everest, finishing the Race Across America, competing in the Sahara ultramarathon, and running 7,500 kilometers across Canada.
He has delivered more than 750 keynotes across North America, Europe, and Asia for organizations including L'Oréal, Airbus, RBC, SAP, Amazon, Pfizer, and Walmart.
Before speaking full-time, he spent ten years in sales roles at Fortune 500 companies — experience that grounds his talks in business reality rather than pure motivational storytelling.
He is also the author of three books, including the bestselling One Step at a Time, and creator of PERSPECTIVE, a fully immersive 360° keynote experience built around custom projections, live soundtrack, and lighting design.
Sébastien Sasseville's Expertise
- Endurance athlete, author, and keynote speaker based in Quebec — with 750+ talks delivered across North America, Europe, and Asia
- Conquered Everest, the Race Across America, and multiple ultra-endurance races — all while living with type 1 diabetes
- Bestselling author — with tens of thousands of copies sold across three books
- Bilingual speaker — for companies including L'Oréal, Airbus, RBC, SAP, and Amazon
- Creator of PERSPECTIVE — a fully immersive 360° experience combining custom projections, live soundtrack, and lighting design
- Core topics — leadership, change management, teamwork, and organizational performance
Sébastien Sasseville's Bio
In 2002, Sébastien Sasseville was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes — the most severe form of the disease. Rather than let it define his limits, he set out to prove the opposite was true.
Within a decade, he became the first Canadian with type 1 diabetes to summit Mount Everest. He went on to run across Canada, a 7,500-kilometer journey equivalent to 180 marathons completed in nine months, and later finished the Race Across America, an ultra-cycling event twice the distance of the Tour de France, completed in half the time.
Before any of this, Sasseville spent a decade in sales roles at Fortune 500 companies — a background that shapes how he speaks to corporate audiences today. He doesn't just tell adventure stories; he translates what he learned on Everest and on the road into practical lessons on leadership, change, and what it actually takes to build a team that performs under pressure.
Now a bestselling author of three books and a speaker who has delivered more than 750 keynotes across North America, Europe, and Asia, Sasseville brings that same message to organizations like L'Oréal, Airbus, RBC, and Amazon: the summit isn't the point — showing up for the next step, and the people beside you, is.
For planners looking for something beyond a standard stage talk, he also created PERSPECTIVE, a fully immersive keynote experience combining custom projections, a live soundtrack, and lighting design.
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Sébastien Sasseville's Presentation Topics
Traveling from his home base in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Sébastien Sasseville presents in a variety of formats beyond the traditional keynote, including workshops, fireside chats, and moderated Q&A sessions. No two presentations are the same — with each one is shaped around the specific audience, industry, and event he's speaking at.
From Mount Everest to the Sahara: Thriving in Change to Win the Long Game +
Top performing organizations are in a constant evolution — continuously transforming and most importantly, always moving forward. Change is a culture, not a project.
From Mount Everest to the Sahara, from running across Canada to the toughest ultra cycling event in the world, Sébastien Sasseville has had to learn how to maintain peak performance while in rapidly changing environments to survive and conquer. He is one of the most accomplished endurance athletes in the world and delivers an awe-inspiring session on change, agility, and transformation.
Sasseville will walk organizations through the keys to creating corporate agility and achieving successful transformation — embracing discomfort and building resiliency — while showing leaders how to inspire forward-thinking and build high-performing teams.
Supported by breathtaking visuals, this unique presentation lifts spirits, bolsters engagement, and inspires audiences to take that first step in meeting any challenge. Sasseville’s keynote is a practical guide to winning the long game and learning how to pivot quickly in order to thrive in perpetually evolving environments.
Your team will be motivated to:
- Take a first step.
- Accept changing the “how” to serve the “why”.
- Change the story we are telling ourselves.
- Set bigger goals.
- Focus on learning.
- Accept imperfections and continue moving forward.
- Change to win (not catch up).
- Eliminate unintentional complacency.
- Build endurance and resilience.
- Become comfortable with counterintuitive actions.
- Change their mental posture and become enthusiastic about challenges.
- Uncover the power on consistency and transform one step at time, every day. --
Together to the Top: Building Unstoppable Teams +
“To sit on the summit isn’t success, it is to be part of success.” — Sébastien Sasseville
When you are roped together with your teammates on Everest, there are no silos, and you learn very quickly that you are co-dependent. If you don’t do everything in your power to make others successful, you aren’t going anywhere.
Sébastien Sasseville has built, led, and inspired high-performing teams to accomplish astonishing achievements. This includes a successful ascent of Mount Everest and more recently the Race Across America, the toughest ultra-cycling event in the world. He had a team of 10 people supporting him 24/7 while he cycled 4,800km in 12 days.
Top performing teams have a lot in common. In this awe-inspiring talk on teamwork supported by breathtaking imagery, thrilling stories, and scientific research, Sasseville outlines the principles that enables teams to collaborate efficiently and reach peak performance to separate themselves from their competition and reach the top.
Teams will learn how to:
- Serve one shared goal.
- Operate as one team.
- Communicate to create performance
- Create a culture of extreme accountability
- Build a learning culture
- Increase interpersonal knowledge
- Relentlessly work on culture
- Foster diversity and enable each team member to use their strengths
- Understand the links that make them co-dependent and co-responsible
- Be guided by your mission, vision, and values
- Receive and give feedback
- Create psycho-social safety
- Serve the mission first
- Keep everyone engaged.--
The Mission: A Leadership Story +
“You don’t have to tell people what to do when you start by giving them something to believe in.” — Sébastien Sasseville
An accomplished athlete, Sébastien Sasseville has built, led, and inspired high-performing teams to accomplish astonishing achievements. Today, he helps leaders build compelling missions to generate engagement, win the long game, and deliver extraordinary results in extraordinary times.
Ultimately, your ability to lead is directly connected to your ability to inspire. In his motivational, moving, and dynamic talks, Sasseville shares leadership lessons learned from his high-pressure journeys and shows leaders how to lead with purpose, create engagement, and cultivate environments where all team members can deliver their best work.
Leaders will explore how to:
- Create a compelling mission
- Build a culture of performance, accountability, and collaboration
- Inspire their teams to deliver their best work
- Lead with purpose
- Put on their oxygen mask first
- Develop a position of service
- Always serve the mission first
- Understand the importance of their role
- Use vulnerability to inspire their teams
- Build psycho-social safety in their teams
- Generate engagement
- Build a learning culture
- Self-motivate and motivate employees. --
Also from Sébastien Sasseville:
The Immersive Keynote Experience
Wow your audience with something new and totally unique! +
Each of Sébastien Sasseville’s topics and keynote can be transformed into an immersive experience. This unique keynote format is supported by music, immersive projections around the room, lighting, and sound effects.
What is an “Immersive Keynote Experience”?
- Images and videos projected around the room.
- Real stories supported by music, sound effects, and lighting to create a blast of emotions and an awe-inspiring experience.
- An immersion into some of the most impressive landscapes and endurance events on earth, including Mount Everest, the Sahara Desert, the toughest ultra-cycling event in the world, and a run across Canada.
The enormous power of this experience inspires audiences to take action, set bigger goals, change their mindset, and believe that they can succeed.
This keynote style is for creative organizations and planners looking to create a memorable experience. An extensive AV set-up is preferred, but multiple versions of this experience are available and customizable to your budget, room size, and equipment. --
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Frequently Asked Questions About Sébastien Sasseville
Who is Sébastien Sasseville? +
A bilingual endurance athlete, bestselling author, and keynote speaker who has summited Mount Everest, completed the Sahara ultramarathon, and finished the Race Across America — all while living with type 1 diabetes. He now speaks on leadership, teamwork, and resilience. --
What does Sébastien Sasseville speak about? +
His core keynotes cover change management and organizational agility (From Mount Everest to the Sahara), team performance (Together to the Top), and purpose-driven leadership (The Mission), all drawing on lessons from his endurance expeditions. --
Is Sébastien Sasseville a bilingual speaker? +
Yes. He delivers keynotes in both English and French, making him a fit for bilingual Canadian audiences and events. --
Does Sébastien Sasseville offer anything beyond a standard keynote? +
Yes — his "Immersive Keynote Experience" adds custom projections, a live soundtrack, and lighting design to any of his talks, built for planners looking for something beyond a typical stage presentation. --
Which companies have booked Sébastien Sasseville? +
Past clients include RBC, Pfizer, Sobeys, Bell, SAP, L'Oréal, KPMG, and Hewitt. --
How much does it cost to book Sébastien Sasseville as a keynote speaker in Canada? +
Sébastien Sasseville's current speaking fee range is $10,001–$15,000, with final pricing confirmed through K&M Productions Speakers & Shows based on event format, location, audience size and customization. Contact K&M Productions to check date availability and arrange a pre-event call. --
Is Sébastien Sasseville represented by a speaker's bureau in Canada and how is the contract handled? +
Sébastien Sasseville is represented by K&M Productions Speakers & Shows Canada who coordinate bookings and handle the contract-agreement with the client. Keynote speakers in Canada often work through a bureau to take care of their contracts and payments while they look after the creative and content aspects of their topics and presentations. Bureau representation ensures consistent communication between the client and the speaker as well as an "insurance policy" for your conference in the unlikely occurrence of speaker illness or cancellation. --
How do I contact Sébastien Sasseville to check availability and begin the booking process in Canada? +
Sébastien Sasseville is contacted through K&M Productions Speakers & Shows to confirm availability and event details. Event planners and meeting planners typically schedule a pre-event call to clarify format, objectives, and expectations. The booking process begins once the event requirements are sorted. Written confirmation follows contract-agreement execution. --
This speaker profile was last updated by K&M Productions on August 27, 2026.
What Clients are Saying About Sébastien Sasseville
Powerful! Sébastien Sasseville delivers a unique perspective and makes us rethink how we progress towards our goals.
–L'Oréal
Wow, Sébastien, your stories are so relatable and inspiring. We’ve just wrapped up a quick series of team huddles with the various stakeholders and our core planning team and everyone is just abuzz about that keynote. You really took us on an emotional journey — awe, fear, inspiration, and encouragement for the future. So very applicable to what we’re going through individually, as a company and as a society right now.
–Walmart Canada
HUGE thank you from the ATS Team for the fantastic session that you delivered on our behalf! We shared with you our brief, you delivered against that 100% with an engaging and emotional story — in your words you showed not only the capacity to lead but also the capacity to inspire!
–Amazon UK
Your presentation was exactly what I and the team were looking for! It struck the right balance of inspiration, lessons learned, and hope/confidence that we can do hard things. I appreciate the way you wove in the themes from the morning’s presentations and what we had discussed in the prep session. It made a difference in helping the team connect your talk to their reality.
–Loblaws