Kath Koschel is a survivor who has overcome incredible odds and unimaginable tragedy to inspire ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Kath is a former cricketer and Ironman competitor whose world came crashing down when she broke her back twice in the span of five years and was told that she would never walk again. Instead, she faced the challenges head-on and defied all medical prognosis by teaching herself to walk again on three separate occasions. In the midst of these harrowing experiences, she believes she experienced two things in large amounts: adversity and kindness.

After re-learning to walk for the second time in her life, this realisation kickstarted a 2-month journey around Australia which relied solely on the kindness of strangers. No cash, credit card food or water – and no help from family or friends! Now a best selling book, Kath shares some of the insights learnt on this trip as part of her best-selling memoir and has transferred these learnings from book form to keynote on stages around the world.

Kath partners with the biggest and most well-known companies and brands across the world to help them achieve perspective, resilience, good culture, wellbeing and of course, kindness. Through her company Kind Group™ she has built and designed programs and tools that inspire organisations and individuals to capture and understand their personal and collective strengths, allowing for bespoke workplace programs and individual coaching.

Driven by a passion to spread gratitude and kindness in the world, her journey led her to found Kindness Factory™ with the goal of encouraging one million acts of kindness all over the world. To date, Kindness Factory has recorded over 8 million acts of kindness and is now a registered not-for-profit in three countries.

Kath’s work has been celebrated globally, most recently being named the 2025 NSW Australian of the Year and recipient of the Australia Medal for courage in overcoming extreme adversity.

Bespoke Workplace Keynotes, Programs & Individual Coaching

An internationally sought after speaker and author, Kath has worked with and consulted to some of the biggest and most well-known companies and brands in the world to help them achieve perspective, resilience, good culture, wellbeing and of course, kindness. Through her company Kind Group™ she has built and designed tools that assist organisations and individuals to capture and understand their personal and collective strengths. Kath develops custom keynote messages, programs, and coaching programs to inspire your organisation and create lasting impact.

Keynote: Mental Health

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 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 belongingHow to build resilience, optimism and agility

Keynote: 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 

Keynote: 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 take aways 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