About

Each day I strive to live life as authentically as possible. To truly connect with others, stretch my own limits, and help others do the same.

This journey has led me to take one of my great passions, swordplay, and turn it into a work greater than myself: Academie Duello Centre for Swordplay. To become a dancer, a mover, and a performer beyond my own living room. To be a coach, speaker, and mentor from the corporate world to the personal world.

My mission in life is to help people realize their most profound and passionate selves and to make what they love a central part of their life.

The Third Person Version

Devon Boorman is the co-founder and Director of Academie Duello Centre for Swordplay in Vancouver, BC. Under his leadership Academie Duello has grown to become the largest centre for Western Martial Arts in the world, hosting thousands of students each year.

Devon is a passionate teacher of swordplay, dance, and movement and has travelled throughout the world teaching seminars and as a student.

Devon has been coaching for more than 10 years and his clients include the big and small, from Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, Halliburton, Activision, and Vivendi Universal Group, to start-ups and passionate creatives. His approach is a combination of mentorship, coaching, counselling, facilitation, story telling, and practical instruction.

As a speaker Devon has engaged audiences big and small from corporate clients to PechaKucha and TED.

Devon has also done a myriad of other things including managing a marketing department, running an R&D team, producing television shows, and teaching software development at Simon Fraser University.