In October 1999, Pam Warren was involved in the Ladbroke Grove rail crash; she was among the 419 injured passengers. Her injuries were so bad that she wasn’t expected to survive; after a three-week coma, numerous skin grafts, and operations, Pam had to wear a Perspex mask for 23 hours a day for 18 months, which spurred her nickname ‘The Lady in the Mask’.
Pam’s experience, both in the city and in leading a successful rail safety campaign, gives her a unique perspective on business challenges and how to master them. She delivers her speech with warmth and humour, managing to emotionally connect with her audience which drives her business strategies home. Pam is a consummate professional and feedback from both organisers and audiences have always been extremely positive.
Pam works with organisations who want to transform disruptive change into natural pathways to success. Using her real experience combined with unique strategies, she shows companies that lasting legacies CAN be built.
She is now an ambassador for The Scar Free Foundation, a charity whose research aims to make scarring from wounds and injuries a thing of the past. She also works with the Children’s Burns Research Centre and the Sue Ryder Hospice. Pam is also a board member of CultureMix Arts, an Arts Council NPO promoting diversity and inclusion through music, and a member of the national Railway Industry Health and Safety Advisory Committee (RIHSAC).
Since her injury, Pam has published her critically acclaimed, five-star autobiography From Behind the Mask (2014), and appeared in The Daily Mail, Insurance Business Magazine, The Mirror, Daily Express, and Bella Magazine. She has been heard on Radio Swindon, Talk Radio, BBC Radio 5 Live, and Radio Berkshire, and starred in a range of television programmes, including The Day I Should Have Died (2016), Going Back, Giving Back (2016), and This Morning (2014),
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PAM WARREN INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER
When presenting, Pam is clear that there’s nothing unusual or special about her. The only difference between the audience and herself is the severe physical and emotional trauma that she has to overcome. Weaving these experiences into her talks allows people to see the problems they are coming up against at work and at home as completely manageable.
- Women of the Year Frink Award 2001
- Unison Bob Cotton Award 2001
- Nominated for the Chris Tarrant award at the 2013 Pride of Reading Awards
- Sue Ryder Women of Achievement Award 2015
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