Kate Adamson is a mesmerizing, inspirational, keynote speaker whose presentation will enhance the theme of your conference. Kate Adamson will bring focus and power to your corporate and health care convention.

Kate Adamson delivers! Her presentation is more than just a feel good motivational speech. Kate’s presentation is unique. She inspires audiences from coast to coast with her personal experience. Kate shows us all how to overcome personal and organizational paralysis with simple techniques which combine professional focus and spiritual disciplines. Against one-in-a-million odds, she overcame total paralysis from a devastating double brainstem stroke. Today she brings audiences to their feet in enthusiastic appreciation and moves them to action with focus, determination and courage.

Kate focuses on the challenges we face. She helps your organization with the goals you are trying to reach by identifying the problems that are stopping you from where you want to go. She speaks about what is stopping all of us proving that we can achieve the impossible by simplifying issues and focusing on what we have, not what we don’t. She speaks not from theory, but personal experience. Once considered dead – her life not worth saving – she now travels the country as the only professional speaker to have recovered from Locked-in Syndrome, touching audiences big and small, corporate, private, church and secular. Kate has testified before Congress as an advocate for human beings facing end of life crisis. She’s a tireless advocate for the disabled.

Presenting how corporations and governmental can enhance the lives of their disabled changing the focus of EEO compliance from a burden to a pleasure. She was appointed to the University of Southern California, Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy Board of Counselors. She has served as a national spokesperson for the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association and is a board member of the Stroke Association of Southern California. Her story has been featured in Redbook, Prevention, and many other national magazines. She was a finalist in the Prevention magazine’s national Picture of Health competition and has appeared on Larry King Live, CBS Sunday Morning News, CNN, Fox News, The O’Reilly Factor, The Abrams Report, MSNBC, ABC, 700 Club, Coral Ridge Ministries and the Trinity Broadcast Network. For not just a great speech but a great experience --- Kate’s your girl!

One Hand Clapping: Paralyzed but not Powerless
This powerful presentation engages your audience and lets them experience what it is like to face million-to-one odds and still prevail. Once considered “dead”– her life not worth saving – Kate recovered from locked-in syndrome (total paralysis) and is now a professional author and speaker. Kate’s presentation shows her audience that the techniques she used to overcome her paralysis can help them overcome professional and organizational paralysis. Kate’s story demonstrates that there is nothing you cannot accomplish with the right attitude and the right tools.

One Hand Clapping: Appreciation before Accommodation
This presentation focuses on disability issues including human resources and compliance issues. Kate shows that employees and executives who have had to persist in spite of disabilities tend to develop uncommon creativity, determination, and resourcefulness that can lead to extraordinary contributions in the work place. Accommodation held in this context becomes a wise business move and a pleasure for all. Kate is determined to shift the attitude and approach of businesses and government agencies regarding disability accommodation. She shows employers how to shift the burden of straight jacket regulations , policies, procedures and legal requirements the government force upon them into an opportunity to increase efficiency and productive in their work place.

Kate’s Story: The View from the Other Side of the Bed
This presentation gives healthcare professionals and patients' advocate and support groups a chance to see the view from the other side of the bed. Kate shares her experience of being a critically ill hospital patient, unable to communicate but fully aware of the work going on around her. She speaks about the contribution that doctors, nurses, physical and vocational therapists, hospital administrators and even insurance companies made in her recovery.  Kate's husband, attorney and patient advocate, Steven Klugman, is available to participate in breakouts and panel discussions and shares valuable insights into the role of an advocate. Her experience powerfully illustrates the miracle of healing and the opportunity for healthcare professionals at every level to bring about that miracle.

"Your visit to Erie, PA affected so many lives within the medical community as well as the general public. I received such positive feedback to your presentations. You were professional, genuine and appealing to all. The presentation you shared with the 500 women at Hamot’s Healthy Women Seminar was spectacular! Your informal meeting with the stroke group was fabulous! The same message of spiritual intervention met our medical community as well. There are times in medical treatment where a reliance on an individual’s faith is inadvertently sidelined. Comments I received from the medical conference evaluation forms included some of the following. “The speaker has phenomenal strength and courage” “what a moving and motivational speaker!” “Very good for health care professionals to hear such a realistic and patient view.” “Excellent – tough act to follow!” Medical professionals really do benefit from reality, not just research.”