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Key Points for Kath Koschel

  • Kath Koschel undertook a 2-month journey around Australia relying solely on the kindness of strangers.
  • She believes she experienced immense amounts of both adversity and kindness through her journey.
  • Koschel's Kindness Factory™ started with the goal of encouraging one million acts of kindness.
  • She has worked with some of the biggest and most well-known companies and brands globally.
  • Kath Koschel 2020 NSW Local Hero Nominee.

Topics for Kath Koschel

  • Mental fitness
    What if we thought about mental health in the way that we thought about physical health? Just like physical fitness, mental fitness is pivotal to all human development; informing our performance and our mindset whilst also aiding our ability to connect with others effectively. Mental fitness underpins the foundation to a life well lived, in and out of the workplace.
    Alarming statistics now show us that mental health related concerns are a global issue with depression, anxiety and even suicide rates rising dramatically from 2023 to 2024.
    So how do we address these worrying trends that threatens to cripple the ability for humans to live happily, perform effectively and work together well?
    In the Mental Health: Building and Sustaining Mental Fitness keynote, Kath unpacks what mental fitness means and how to effectively manage it with her mental health framework, backed by evidence-based strategies including:
    • Self awareness as a foundation for growth and moving through to self- acceptance.
    • Growth through adversity and change – How to grow through what we go through.
    • Linking gratitude, humour and kindness to mental health and fitness.
    • How to cultivate community and conversation through connection and belonging.
    • How to build resilience, optimism and agility.
  • Workplace culture
    In an age where technology is taking over, 43% employees don’t feel a sense of connection to their co-workers, 38% don’t trust their co-workers, and 22% don’t even have one friend at work. 70% of employees are disengaged from their jobs—with disengagement at a record high. Employee disconnection leads to lower productivity and lower rates of retention. Creating a workplace of belonging and kindness is proven to aid better mental health, as well as increasing profitability, productivity, high performance and retention. It’s good for your people and good for your business.
    Employees who experience high levels of belonging, psychological safety and kindness at work have greater resilience, well-being and personal and professional growth. They experience a 56% increase in job performance and 170% increase in employer promotor score, and better-connected employees save large organizations millions per year. Kath can also make this keynote bespoke to your workplace by working with you in the leadup to understand your specific needs and then addressing them via 4 of 12 common themes that can be addressed to better your companies culture via an evidence based framework of kindness; collaboration, compassion, empathy, gratitude, humour, humility, honesty, mindfulness, positivity, perspective, Self-acceptance and trust.
    Key takeaways:
    • Learn 4 ways to increase psychological safety in the workplace.
    • How to foster higher levels of psychological safety in your team.
    • How to deepen trust and build high-value relationships with co-workers, customers, and clients.
    • How to build an inclusive culture.
    • Bringing collaboration back post Covid.
  • Change resilience
    Change is a reality for all and it comes at us in many ways. But be careful, history shows that only a small number of change strategies succeed. Your people will enable it, or obstruct it.
    Kath knows what it takes to support change in an organisation. Having high instances of change in both her personal and professional life, Kath now helps organisations around the world to adapt to the new, pushing progress forward and into the now and future through a proven framework of gratitude, perspective and kindness.
    Kath will build a bespoke offering with key and actionable takeaways for the audience to implement immediately to overcome resistance, manage the change process and land on key messages for your business.
    Key takeaways:
    • Key steps to implementing change and how best to manage it.
    • Providing perspective to overcome resistance to the change process.
    • How to create and navigate opportunity in the change process.
    • How to bring choice to periods of change.
    • Adopting a resilience mindset in the face of change.

Testimonials for Kath Koschel

Kath proved to be a brilliant start to our conference - on point messages, highly emotional but incredible story to tell and to listen to
Deniliquin Primary Principals Association

 We loved Kath’s story telling, her authenticity and honesty was very engaging. Kath captivated our audience within moments. We laughed and cried and walked away with a new found perspective on the important things in life; love, family, deep friendships and of course, kindness. Kindness to others and ourselves.  
Sutherland Shire Council (SSC) 

Exceptional presentation that captivated the audience.
Central Coast Grammar School

Kath Koschel was fantastic, engaging and inspiring. Not a dry eye at the conference!
George Weston Foods Limited (GWF)

Kath Koschel was informative and insightful. It was a pleasure to have Kath speak at our IWD event and provide an uplifting story on her life journey. It really reiterates you can be the change you wish to see in the world!   
City of Casey

Kath Koschel is an amazing individual who has faced so many obstacles, but still manages to "power on" with her positive and "can do" attitude. Our staff were inspired by her story - a story that triumphs over adversity.  
Development & Innovation
Sanitarium

Kath Koschel brought such heart and passion to our event.  She connected with the audience and shared with them her story. The feedback we’ve received from our Roadshow has been fantastic and Kath was a essential part of it.  She was professional, friendly and a pleasure to work with. 
Insurance Australia Group

A rating of ‘Excellent’ just doesn’t cut it. Kath was beyond excellence, she was exemplary and inspiring. There was laughter, but also not a dry eye in the room. Kath’s story, along with her energy and self presence left us lost for words and wanting to run out and spread kindness.
Northcott Early Childhood Early Invervention

Outstanding presentation and powerful story.  Exactly what we needed, Kath received a standing ovation.
Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing

Kath Koschel was amazing and such an inspiration. We were so lucky Kath was able to come and speak to us and share her amazing story.
Westpac Financial Group

Kath Koschel has amazing integrity about her when she speaks. She has a way of connecting with those she addresses and builds rapport with the most diverse audiences. I have seen Kath in various forums and she is always the one to inspire, encourage leadership and appeal to the kindness in all of us. I cannot recommend her enough.
Manager
Northcott

Kath Koschel's presentation at our premier's dinner was incredibly moving and inspiring and left all those in attendance uplifted and in awe of her incredible strength. She is very relaxed and relatable. She was able to adapt and keep the audience engaged, event through a technical difficulty. She is simply remarkable.
Event Manager
Cricket NSW

Kath Koschel is an amazing individual who has found the inner light and strength to push forward through tremendous adversity and difficult times. When she shares her personal story you notice that it has an impact on all those who hear it. Her story puts matters in to perspective as to what is really important and she brings light to the power of self-belief and determination. You cannot walk away without a shift in thinking; she challenges you to choose a different way to interpret the world. Kath is inspiring and we were all in awe of the person that she is.
COO
Endota Spa

Kath Koschel came to our team when we needed it most. We needed inspiration and to realise our purpose as an organisation. Kath delivered on all fronts. She talked us through her journey to kindness and inadvertently encouraged all staff to go above and beyond for all those we are surrounded by. The feedback received from staff was very positive with many leaving the conference that day with a renewed sense of gratitude and elevated level of motivation to be the best version of themselves. We cannot recommend her high enough!
Team Leader
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Australia is proud of Kath Koschel. She is a remarkable person who possesses incredible courage and resilience
Malcom Turnbull
Australian Prime Minister