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Official Bio
Vanisha Breault is a Canadian executive leader, keynote speaker, author, and leadership developer known for her ability to connect deeply with people while challenging them to think differently, lead courageously, and embrace meaningful change. She commands stages and boardrooms alike with authenticity, conviction, and strategic insight, inspiring audiences to navigate adversity, confront hard truths, and lead with purpose.
For over twenty years, Vanisha has worked at the intersection of leadership, mental health, addiction recovery, community development, and organizational transformation. Her experience spans executive leadership, strategic planning, organizational development, governance, fundraising, and systems change. Whether working with individuals, teams, or organizations, she is passionate about helping people uncover the beliefs, behaviours, and patterns that keep them stuck. Known for her ability to balance compassion with accountability, she creates space for honest reflection, courageous conversations, and meaningful growth, helping people confront what is holding them back and step more fully into who they were created to be.
As Founder and former CEO of the Terminator Foundation, Vanisha pioneered Activity-Based Recovery Therapy (ABRT), an innovative model that integrated movement, mindset, and recovery while helping spark a national conversation around youth addiction and mental health. Her memoir, Ordinary Courage, chronicles her family's journey through trauma, addiction, and recovery, offering a powerful testament to resilience, hope, courageous truth-telling, and the lifelong faith in Jesus Christ who remained her rock through every season of life, walking with her through her darkest moments and giving her the courage to face the truth, heal, and move forward.
At the heart of Vanisha's work is a belief that transformation begins when people are willing to tell the truth, face themselves honestly, and take ownership of the life they want to create. She believes that courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to move forward despite it. Grounded in faith and guided by a deep belief in the dignity, worth, and potential of every person, her work is rooted in the conviction that meaningful change becomes possible when truth, accountability, grace, and courage come together.
Today, Vanisha speaks to corporate leaders, healthcare professionals, educators, entrepreneurs, and changemakers across Canada. Through keynote presentations, leadership development, coaching, and consulting, she equips individuals and organizations with the tools to navigate complexity, strengthen culture, develop leaders, and create meaningful and lasting impact.
Her leadership and contributions have been recognized nationally, including the King Charles III Coronation Medal, the Women of Inspiration Difference Maker Award, and the Canadian Mental Health Association's Nadine Stirling Memorial Award. She has served on provincial and national advisory boards, contributing to policy development, strategic planning, and systems-level initiatives in mental health, addiction recovery, and youth support across Canada.
Vanisha is currently completing her Master of Arts in Leadership at Royal Roads University, where she continues to deepen her understanding of leadership, organizational systems, and sustainable change. She lives in Calgary, Alberta, surrounded by her growing family, and remains committed to helping people and organizations lead with courage, live with purpose, and become all they were created to be.
