Katherine Baldwin

Katherine Baldwin – Mental Health & Wellbeing Speaker

Katherine Baldwin is a powerful mental health and wellbeing speaker, TEDx speaker, trauma-informed coach, relationships expert and author who gives audiences the motivation, the know-how and the tools to perform to their full potential while staying mentally, emotionally and physically well.

Finalist and ‘Highly Commended’ at The Speaker Awards 2024 for Positive Impact and with a global client list that includes Cisco, AVEVA and Sage, Katherine’s talks and workshops address pressing issues that are negatively impacting productivity and performance.

She speaks on how to manage stress and anxiety, avoid burnout, overcome addictions, beat imposter syndrome, build resilience, bounce back from adversity, promote inclusion and belonging, form healthy relationships and lead with vulnerability.

By sharing her personal experience of overcoming an eating disorder, alcohol abuse, workaholism, chronic stress, anxiety, burnout, breakdown and unhealthy relationships while working as a Reuters political reporter in the UK parliament and travelling the globe with prime ministers, along with the steps she took to rebuild her life and flourish again, Katherine guides her audiences to balance peak performance with healthy self-care.

Known for her authenticity and vulnerability, Katherine helps to normalise mental health conversations and break taboos, giving people the courage and permission to seek help when they are struggling and thrive, not just survive, in work and life.

Katherine also speaks from personal experience on diversity and inclusion, specifically navigating childlessness in a family-centric workplace and harnessing neurodiversity for higher performance (Katherine received an ADHD diagnosis aged 53).

Following a high-profile career as a foreign correspondent and political journalist, Katherine is ideally suited to speak to individuals working in fast-paced, high-stress environments.

Katherine can deliver talks in English and in Spanish and has a gift for communicating complex topics in straightforward language and creating an environment of psychological safety where people feel able to speak their truth.

Katherine is fluent in Spanish and can deliver talks in Spanish as well as English

KEYNOTE TALKS

Avoiding and overcoming burnout – Burnout wreaks havoc with our health and our productivity and performance. In this powerful and personal talk, Katherine explores the real reasons why many of us feel compelled to work ourselves into the ground – from low self-esteem to people-pleasing to childhood adversity – and offers audiences an action plan that will support them to stop self-harming habits and balance work with wellbeing.

Bouncing back from adversity and managing change – How do we prepare for the storm, stay strong in the storm, bounce back from challenges and manage our anxiety during times of uncertainty and upheaval? This talk gives audiences the tools and the motivation to build their emotional and professional resilience, embrace change with a positive mindset and transform setbacks into golden opportunities for growth.

How to balance high performance with health and happiness – From eating disorders and alcohol abuse to compulsive work and dysfunctional relationships, many of us resort to unhealthy coping mechanisms to manage stress, but this is unsustainable. In this impactful talk, Katherine explores the deep roots of our anxiety, guides people to end self-sabotage and offers them alternative ways to manage difficult emotions. The result: health, happiness and high performance.

Bring your whole self to work – Transforming workplaces through authentic connection and emotional intelligence – This talk supports organisations and leaders to create psychological safety so that their employees feel able to ask for help and it supports individuals to create emotional safety within themselves so that they can be honest, open and real. By growing in emotional intelligence and being vulnerable, we reduce our stress, unleash our creativity and become free to form powerful, authentic connections with others, benefiting the entire organisation.

Harness neurodivergence, play to your strengths and perform at your best –When we understand our strengths and our challenges as neurodiverse individuals and ask for and receive the support that we need from our organisations, we unleash our creativity and perform at our best. This talk helps neurodiverse individuals to shine and supports organisations to unlock the huge potential of employees with a neurodiversity.

Navigating belonging and boundaries as a childless person in a family-centric workplace –This talk raises awareness of the DE&I topic of childlessness and supports childless and childfree people, generally in the minority, to process their emotions, find a sense of belonging, communicate their needs and set healthy boundaries so that everyone benefits.

Overcome past trauma to build a better present and future –Unresolved trauma from our early lives can lead us to repeat the unhealthy patterns of our past, sabotaging our relationships, our health and our careers. In this talk, Katherine supports people to identify and dismantle their past traumas and to swap old habits for healthy patterns so that they can flourish in life, love and work.