Book Margaret for Your Event

Margaret Hoelzer is a world record holder, Olympic medalist, and nationally recognized motivational speaker. With powerful personal experience and elite athletic achievement, Margaret inspires audiences to overcome obstacles, embrace personal growth, and speak up about difficult topics like sexual abuse. She has spoken at schools, corporate events, youth organizations, and advocacy groups across the country.

Available for keynotes, assemblies, corporate events, and advocacy conferences nationwide.

Speaking Engagements

Margaret has spoken for schools, universities, corporate wellness programs, youth sports organizations, faith groups, and child advocacy conferences globally.

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Speaking Engagement Topics Include:

Motivation

Overcoming Obstacles

Sexual Abuse – Don’t be Afraid to Tell

Control the Controlables

Personal Growth

Experience

National spokesperson, National Children's Advocacy Center

  1. Featured survivor, Darkness to Light's "Stewards of Children"

  2. Former Safe Sport Representative, USA Swimming & USOC

Watch Margaret Speak

Three-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder Margaret Hoelzer talks to swimmers attending the USA Swimming's 2009 National Select Camp about the joys and challenges of being an elite-level athlete.

Margaret Hoelzer: A Survivor Story

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Ten-year-old Margaret began telling her mom how, between the ages of 5 and 7, she thought she might have been sexually abused by the father of one of Margaret's friends.