Dr Kate Allatt (D Litt) astonishingly recovered from most people’s worst nightmare, like waking up in the middle of an operation unable to move, after a faulty anaesthetic. To think, feel, see and hear, and yet be unable to move anything below her eyelids.
Kate was suffering from Locked-In Syndrome. Three months after leaving the hospital she founded Fighting Strokes her registered charity and astonishingly ran again on her first stroke anniversary.
Dr Kate Allatt (D Litt) is a proven mind-blowing inspirational and motivational speaker/trainer.
Dr Allatt blew doctors’ minds by fully recovering after they wanted to turn off her life support machine. Kate suddenly suffered a condition where she could think, feel, see and hear normally yet move absolutely nothing for months. Think of it like being ‘buried alive’ and you’ll get the idea.
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But Kate’s personal recovery was nothing compared to the impact she has gone on to make over the last 13 years. As well has developing her own unique training courses that don’t just “talk her talk” but “walk her walk”, Kate has achieved:
Today, Dr Kate Allatt works extensively to coach the NHS leadership and The Big Four, teaching about the value of compassion, resiliency, growth mindset and how to achieve more with less.
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Her wow keynotes, talks, after dinner and face-to-face and online training courses include:
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Other themes include: Adversity, Change Management, Resiliency, Anxiety, Diversity Inclusion, Communication, Mental Health, Healthcare Sexuality Conversations, Growth Mindset.
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As seen on; BBC Breakfast, BBC Jeremy Vine, BBC Victoria Derbyshire TV, BBC Today, BBC Newsnight, BBC 5 Live, BBC Radio Sheffield, The One Show, This Morning, Good Morning Britain, BBC Breakfast, RTL Germany, ABC Australia, America, South America, South Africa, The Times, The Times on Sunday, The Indian Times, Readers Digest, Woman & Home, Woman, The Good Housekeeping Guide, BBC World Service, Sky News, GLOBO TV, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail.
Dr Kate Allatt’s internationally published book, Running Free: Breaking out of Locked-In Syndrome was published in 2011.
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“In early February, I was invited on BBC radio to talk about my daring charity climb up the Western Breach of Kilimanjaro, for my fortieth birthday, in June 2010. I was a super fit, fell runner, digital marketer, married, and devoted mother of three young children – Woody 5, Harvey 8 India 10 – but our lives were to change forever. Just four days after that bubbly radio interview, I suddenly suffered a catastrophic brain stem stroke. Kilimanjaro never happened.
I emerged from my medically induced coma and was considered vegetative. However, I could actually think, feel, see and hear normally but was just unable to move a single muscle. I felt ‘buried alive’, ‘trapped inside my body’ as I suffered the terrifying condition known as Locked-In Syndrome, at the age of 39. However, a chance telephone call from the same radio producer was to transform my shattered life, and thus give it meaning and purpose. More importantly, I was able to help transform the shattered lives of equally written-off, forgotten, people, affected by Locked In Syndrome, globally, The results are nothing short of astonishing.
I’ve learnt how important it is for people to be given a good quality of life back in the community. It’s simply not good enough to pat ourselves on the back for skilfully saving the lives of people who would have simply died a few years ago. We must consider how we can help make these survivors be the best they can be in our communities afterwards. Presently, most long-term Locked In Syndrome survivors merely just ‘exist’ pitifully in our nursing homes. I’ve also learnt there are ‘no promises, just possibilities’ and HOPE“.
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