Katrina Webb OAM is on a mission to lead humanity by elevating purpose, performance and potential for impact in individuals, teams and organisations.
A Paralympic gold medallist, international speaker, entrepreneur, philanthropist, personal mastery consultant, global advocate for diversity, trainer in wellbeing and resilience, and physiotherapist, Katrina’s elite sports mindset, evidence-based materials and proven methodologies effectively unlock self-mastery, performance wellbeing and whole leadership.
For over two decades, Katrina has transformed corporate leaders in conference rooms, professionals in their lounge rooms, and elite athletes in change rooms from experiencing limited success, and downplaying their unique difference, to realising their full potential through unlocking self-mastery, performance wellbeing and whole leadership.
A world-class speaker, Katrina’s presentations take people on a transformative journey to ignite purpose, human potential and team performance necessary for succeeding, thriving and generating a lasting positive impact in their social, local and global communities.
Katrina delivers with authenticity, wholehearted compassion, humility and grace, driven by an insatiable curiosity and intense passion to unlock the infinite possibilities of others.
Talking Points
Leadership Alchemy - aligning purpose, high performance and human potential
Ideas have been circulating about the gig economy and remote working for the last few years, but no one could have anticipated the impact of COVID-19 in disrupting how and where we work. Working from home also poses new challenges. In an age of rapid change, how do we alchemize performance working with an entirely new set of rules?Leadership Alchemy - aligning purpose, high performance and human potential
In this presentation, participants are taken through a three-phase process enabling them to audit priority management, energy management and mind management. Katrina provides insights and necessary tools that she has developed in her career as both an athlete and a corporate high-performance strategist.
Audiences will walk away from this presentation with insights into how to maintain focus and set healthy boundaries when working independently. They will gain a better understanding of how to manage priorities effectively. They will also decode self-motivation and master the art of self-leadership in an age where the most significant influence we have is the influence we have over ourselves.
Key Takeaways:
- Tools in high performance
- Master self-leadership
Tomorrow’s Gold - Leading through uncertainty
The world has changed, and what looked like success yesterday has also undergone a rapid transformation. As a leader, we must adapt and evolve in a brand-new world where the focus is shifting from shareholders to stakeholders, from capitalism to community and from profit to purpose. You may have stood on the winning podium yesterday, but what got you there yesterday won’t win you a gold medal tomorrow. The games have changed, and the rules are revolutionary.Tomorrow’s Gold - Leading through uncertainty
In Tomorrow’s Gold, Katrina Webb unlocks the key trends that are redefining leadership in the 21st century in addition to providing a blueprint for navigating high performance as a leader in unchartered territory. Adaptability, resilience, empathy and diversity are converging to create a new kind of alchemy. One where community, compassion and collaboration are creating a new currency. A new golden thread to leadership in the next economy.
Audiences will walk away from this presentation with a refreshed perspective on leadership in the 21st century. Despite an uncertain future, those who lead for gold will have an innate focus on what it is to be human, and what it is to care for humankind. The only anchor in a world that is changing before our eyes.
Key Outcomes
- Leading through uncertainty
- Building hope and resilience
- Decode purpose-driven leadership
The Golden Minority - Diversity’s hidden treasure
When we think of Diversity and Inclusion, our unconscious bias often leads us to generalised examples. Examples of this include relating disability to a person visibly disabled, or on a cultural level, we may think of racial minorities. It is not often that we consider what we cannot see. The less obvious examples of disability or difference. The person who is suffering a mental health condition, the victim of an abusive situation, or someone who is living with a learning difficulty.The Golden Minority - Diversity’s hidden treasure
In this presentation, Katrina Webb shares her journey of living with a hidden disability - Cerebral Palsy. The content has a specific focus on viewing diversity as the hidden treasure for an individual both personally and professionally. Katrina will take leaders through a process, empowering them with the tools to decode hidden diversity to ignite innovation via inclusion of what is seen, and more significantly what is unseen.
Audiences will walk away from this presentation with the tools to amplify hidden potential and performance in people and to inspire a more inclusive and innovative culture. They will develop skills to influence with integrity and to enhance empathy and emotional intelligence. This activates a sense of purpose, adaptability and cohesion within an organisational culture. The Golden Minority is diversity’s hidden treasure.
Key Takeaways:
- Enhance inclusion leading to innovation
- Ignite human potential
- Build empathy and emotional intelligence
- Build connection and culture
Video
Katrina Webb- Speaker reel
As an Australian sporting legend, Katrina Webb is no stranger to a gold medal podium or a star-lit stage. She has received awards and medals most athletes only dream about. Despite this success, her journey hasn’t always been easy. Born into a family of sporting stars, it was no surprise that a young Katrina Webb was born with natural athleticism. By the age of eighteen, she had already secured a netball scholarship at The Australian Institute of Sport. What she didn’t realise at this time was that her sporting career was about to take an unexpected turn. During training at the Institute of Sport, Katrina was informed that she had a weakness in her right-hand side, which turned out to be a case of Cerebral Palsy. Katrina’s ability to pursue netball at a national level was now in jeopardy. Despite this, a twist of fate presented a previously unseen opportunity. Katrina was now eligible for the Paralympic games. Her weakness had become her greatest strength. Over the years Katrina had tried to conceal her disability, so making the decision to compete at the very public Paralympics was not easy. In time, she realized that through self-acceptance and determination she could tackle her disability head on. This decision paid off when she won two Gold medals, and a Silver medal in Atlanta 1996 and at Sydney 2000 went on to win a Silver and Bronze medal.The Alchemy of Performance - turning silver to gold | Katrina Webb | TEDxMacquarieUniversity
Katrina Webb never expected to be a Paralympian. Diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at age eighteen, she had spent most of her life working hard to hide her weakness, in a bid not to be seen as different. Drawing on sports psychology and the power of the mind, Katrina talks about turning down negative thoughts rather than turning them off, and the need to embrace yourself before you can embrace the moment.Katrina was very inspirational and got a standing ovation from everyone attending. It certainly lifted our event and gave our corporates who attended, I believe, that extra motivation and fe ... keep reading Minda Incorporated
Just a quick e-mail to say a big thankyou for your talk last week to the GHD business school at the Hyatt in Adelaide. It made us look inside and take stock, look at where we were, where we all wanted to be and how we could get there as standing still is definitely a step backwards. Inspiring and energizing!
Katrina was fantastic! Her talk was exactly what we wanted. She arrived well in advance to prepare/ask questions etc and tied in a few local comments into her talk which won points with the audience. Those in attendance enjoyed the presentation and found it very thought provoking
What an amazing impact you had at our awards lunch on Friday . Your great stage presence, immaculate timing and perfect perception about the audience connecting your experience to their own, all made for a magnificent presentation! Thank you so much for giving what you did- you made a difference!
Katrina’s was one of the highlights from the three-week ING International Graduate Programme. Her message was on target - sharing with the group of young, high potentials from around the world, that they can make a difference even in adverse circumstances. She immediately captured and engaged the audience. I also so appreciated that she wanted to spend time getting to know the group. Her authenticity and genuine concern came through. I would not hesitate in recommending her to others and would definitely engage her again.
