Creating Synergy Podcast #46 - Katrina Webb, Founder of Newday Leadership on Paralympic Career, Breaking Through Fear of being Different, Wellbeing and Resilience
Katrina Webb is recognised and acknowledged for her success as a Paralympic athlete. She has won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in athletics at three Paralympic Games.
She was the first torchbearer to enter the Stadium for the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games and in 2006 Katrina was selected on behalf of the International Paralympic Committee to speak at the United Nations in New York.
Off the track, Katrina is the Director of Silver 2 Gold High-Performance Solutions which specializes in powering organisations, teams and individuals best.
Katrina is a global ambassador for the International Paralympic Committee and due to her own experience in dealing with a disability and a deep love of helping others, Katrina is the Founder and Director of Newday Leadership a platform to inspire leadership for the greater good.
Katrina Webb is an international speaker, leadership and personal mastery consultant, a trainer in Wellbeing and Resilience, a physiotherapist and an accredited workplace trainer and assessor.
Katrina loves to be challenged. She has walked the Kokoda track and has trekked to Basecamp Everest twice. She is also a mother to not just one but to three beautiful boys.
In this episode, Katrina shares her journey and experience of being an athlete and talks to her thoughts on the role that sport plays in setting people up for success not only in the business environment but in life itself. She also shares how challenging it was dealing with her disability and the fear of being different.
We talked about her desire to keep putting herself into situations that are tough, uncomfortable, scary, such as speaking at TedX, trekking both the Kokoda track and the Everest Basecamp, not once, but twice, and currently, she is over in Japan and will be hosting the Paralympics on Channel 7!
To finish up, we also discussed Katrina's thoughts about what can businesses do to support their people through the pandemic from a well-being perspective and the importance that the organisational culture plays in wellbeing and resilience.
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