Through Triage Cancer’s Speakers Bureau, cancer centers, hospitals, cancer organizations, and other groups that are coordinating educational events or cancer conferences can be connected with expert speakers on various cancer survivorship issues.
Triage Cancer's Speakers Bureau also includes cancer survivors and caregivers who have experience sharing their cancer journey with a variety of audiences. If you are planning an event, it is a good idea to request speakers as early as possible. Some of our speakers are often booked months in advance.
Below you can learn more about each speaker, sort speakers by particular areas of expertise, request a speaker directly, and read about potential topics that you may want to include in your next event!
Biography
Fitz Koehler, M.S.E.S.S. is a recent breast cancer survivor and one of the most prominent and electrifying fitness experts and race announcers in America. As the voice of the Los Angeles Marathon, Philadelphia Marathon, Big Sur Marathon, DC Wonder Woman Run Series and more, Fitz brings big structure, energy and joy to sport. She’s passionate about guiding others to live better and longer with Fitzness and has done so through national media outlets and corporations like Disney, Tropicana, Oakley and Office Depot. Fitz has also inspired millions of kids to get active with her wildly successful school running/walking program, The Morning Mile.
Fitz is a dynamic and compelling speaker who knows how to poke an audience in the chest to make them do better while making them feel loved. Her mission to help people live better and longer while making fitness understandable, attainable and fun has put her on stages around the globe. Fitz’s sunny smile and happy disposition brighten up a room, allowing her to talk about serious topics while keeping feelings light and audience members engaged. Instead of talking at an audience, she talks to them and with them. Whether she’s hosting 20,000 people at a race, or 150 at a corporate event, Fitz has the ability to make every guest feel like they’re a part of a one-on-one conversation.
Diagnosed with breast cancer in February of 2019, seven weeks after a clean mammogram, Fitz makes an incredible case for self-exams. She also serves as an example of someone who lived her best life, even during the worse parts of her 15-mont experience with chemotherapy, radiation and surgeries. Fitz ricocheted around the USA hosting tens of thousands of people each weekend, even when chemo made her incredibly sick. This made for some very inspirational, funny and strange experiences which Fitz loves to share during her presentations. She was fueled by her passion for people, and love of her career and family. All cancer patients can relate and thrive if they keep their passions present during treatments. Work, gardening, art, music, friends …. Fitz inspires a focus on quality of life that most patients haven’t considered.
Fitz’s book, My Noisy Cancer Comeback: Running at the Mouth, While Running for my Life will be released October 2020. Already receiving incredible reviews, Fitz reveals the juicy and gory details of her 16-month battle while zigzagging across America. She shares her dark, scary, hilarious and strange experiences while enduring chemotherapy, radiation, surgeries and scans, all while working in the public eye. Readers will laugh, cry, wince and cheer as she chronicles the clash of a nuclear bombs worth of side-effects and 23 major race weekends. Her inspirational tale encompasses the terror of diagnosis, nostril wigs, bald heads and black dresses, parenting with cancer, things not to say to cancer patients, mean chemo, sick days, burns, boob grabbing, perspective, spectacular stages, superheroes, ribbon rejections, mosh pits, clear scans, dance parties and most importantly, triumph. You’ll walk away grittier, more optimistic and compelled to live each day to the fullest.
As a fitness expert with three decades of experience under her belt, Fitz has guided many cancer patients to better health. Fitz is now intent on combining her mastery of healthy habits with her first-hand experience to support others in their efforts to live well and live long.
In her spare time, loves watersports, strength training, endurance events, hiking, animals, hugs, music, sarcasm, and travel. She lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband and two kids.
Topics: Coping Techniques; Health & Online/Social Media; Humor & Medicine; Stress Management; and Survivor Experiences