The winner of three Olympic gold medals — five medals in total — Tessa Virtue is the most decorated figure skater in Olympic history. Today, as an executive advisor with Deloitte, she works with the firm’s senior leaders and their clients to unlock potential and empower sustained high performance. Virtue combines her lived experiences as an athlete with her academic background in positive psychology to share researched-backed tools, coping mechanisms, and strategies to help both individuals and teams flourish.
Virtue skated into the hearts of people worldwide when she became the youngest ice dance champion in Olympic history at the 2010 games alongside her on-ice partner, Scott Moir. They followed up this gold-medal performance with a silver medal at the 2014 games and back-to-back gold medals at the 2018 games. Virtue is also a three-time World Champion and has won three Four Continents Championships, eight Canadian Championships, and six Skate Canada International titles with Moir. The pair were also guest analysts for CBC during the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Since retiring from skating in 2019, Virtue has earned an MBA from the Smith School of Business and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She joined Deloitte in 2021 to help them develop a new approach to work that empowers individuals to feel and perform at their best and elevate the performance of teams, business units, and organizations.
A strong advocate for female empowerment, Virtue is the face of women’s training at Adidas Canada. She is also a long-time member of the Special Olympics Canada Champions Network. In recognition of her work and athletic achievements, Virtue was made a member of the Order of Canada and inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.
