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About This Event:
Corporal Retired Lealand Muller wants to bring awareness to persons with disabilities and accessibility, and highlight the benefits of sport for those facing mental and physical limitations. Audience members will be inspired to push past any mental and physical limitations that may exist in their lives.
Speaker accommodation for this event is being generously provided by Fairmont Chateau Whistler.
This event is also generously supported by Whistler Blackcomb’s Epic Promise.
About Speaker Lealand Muller:
Corporal Retired Lealand Muller is from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was an army vehicle technician for eight years and was posted to Shilo, Manitoba. In 2018, Muller sustained a catastrophic injury while tobogganing that left him paralyzed from the waist down. No longer able to serve in the military and left with many unknowns of what the future may hold, he fell into a dark depression.
Searching for hope and answers, Muller was awarded the opportunity to wear the Canadian flag once more to represent his country and compete at the 2023 Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Germany. Participating in those games was a once in a lifetime experience that gave Muller a new perspective on life: he has been able to push past mental and physical obstacles sustained from his injury. Muller learned from other competitors at the Games with similar experiences, and benefited from that one of a kind ‘tough love’ and ‘never give up’ mindset found within the military community.
Being a part of the adaptive sport community has done wonders for Muller’s mental and physical health. Using his experience as a wheelchair user and Invictus Alumnus, he hopes to bring awareness to people with disabilities and make meaningful change in the built environment regarding accessibility across Canada.
Drawing from his experience at the 2023 Invictus Games in Dusseldorf, Muller is now working with the Invictus Games Organizing Committee in Vancouver to support their continuous growth and development. Muller hopes to make the 2025 Invictus Games in Vancouver and Whistler as accessible and inclusive as possible.
Lealand Muller in the media: