Three-time Paralympic medallist and inclusive leadership speaker.
Katrina Webb is a three-time Paralympic medallist who represented Australia at the Atlanta, Sydney and Athens Games in athletics, competing in the T37 classification after being diagnosed with mild cerebral palsy at age 18 — just as she was on the cusp of a sporting career.
That early reframing — from career-ending diagnosis to gold-medal pathway — sits at the heart of what she speaks about. Katrina works with leaders, teams and individuals on the mindset shifts that turn setbacks into deliberate strategy: how to recalibrate goals when the playing field changes, and how to build inclusive teams where every contributor can perform at their best.
Beyond her competitive career, Katrina has spent the last two decades consulting to organisations on diversity, inclusive leadership and high-performance culture. She's a regular keynote at conferences in healthcare, education and government, and brings warmth and practical tools that audiences put to use on the way back to their desks.
Katrina Webb OAM is a keynote speaker based in South Australia who speaks on diversity & inclusion, leadership and motivation. Book through Executive Speakers Australia.
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.
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, 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
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?
In this presentation, participants are taken through a three-phase process enabling them to audit priority management, energy management and mind management. Katrina Webb provides insights and necessary tools that she has developed in her career as both an athlete and a corporate high performance coach.
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 Outcomes
• Feel empowered to work from home
• Tools in high performance
• Master Self Leadership
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.
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 Outcomes
• Enhance Inclusion leading to Innovation
• Ignite Human Potential
• Build empathy and emotional intelligence
• Build connection and culture
Katrina Webb is a highly sought after host/emcee and facilitator. Her warmth, knowledge and experience will make your next event or conference an enjoyable and successful one.
Katrina Webb’s strong delivery of her story and the conviction she told it in, along with the tools she gave to the team and the examples of how she has applied these to help her was very well received by the team. Well done and thank you for sharing your personal story with us. Some wonderful take outs for our team as we head into closure of our site. No surprise she will be busy this year.Big W Monarto Regional Distribution Centre
Your speech was everything and more, and the feedback has been incredible.Project Coordinator, BADGE
Her presentation encompassed enablement, resilience and highlighted insights critical for all of us in successfully becoming adults.Professor of Pediatrics, University of Chicago
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