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​Pat Armitstead
Multi Award Winning Professional Keynote Speaker
Facilitating  :-
  • Mental Health in the Workplace 
  • Stress, Humour and Health 
  • Conversational and Emotional Intelligence 
  • Storytelling and presentations 

Authority on:-
Joy as a Transformational tool
Humour, Engagement & Wellbeing ​
Authentic Leadership, Positive Psychology 

"Pat is one of the most positive, energetic people I have ever met.  ​She adds enormous value to the quality of environments.  It's high time we we focussed on proactive prevention of health problems and stress. " 
Robyn Stent, former Health and Disability Commissioner, New Zealand 

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Pat Armitstead is a Registered Nurse with a major in education, plus she is a Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistics. and a Certified mBIT coach.  A professional speaker and motivator, she is an expert on leadership, communication,  grief and stress.
 
Over the past 20 years she has given her highly educational and entertaining presentations into both the business and health sector- on topics such as "Mental Health in the Workplace",  “Stress, humour and health” , “Authentic leadership, self expression and productivity” , and “ Storytelling and Engagement in the workplace”.
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Pat is a Pioneer  and Thoughtleader in the area of joy as  a transformational agent  .  From her early years as a Registered Nurse, she has championed the human spirit leading people to find joy where it appeared there was none.  Pats life has been devoted to helping others to transform their lives.  ​Her unique personal perspectives, traumatic past, repeated losses and eventual mastery as a Multi Award Winning Speaker, TV and Radio Host  and Exhibiting Artist are a rare combination of talents. 
A master storyteller she combines Positive Psychology principles, Emotional Intelligence,  and Neuroscience with real human experiences to bring understanding and meaning to life events.  

Pat sees crisis as a catalyst for personal growth and ongoing transformation, enabling high levels of intimate communication and authentic expression.
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She says "You cant lift your bottom line if people are down"
1:5 people are medicated for depression, costing us up to 200 billion per year, and in Australia alone there are 3000 suicides per year .  
​That's 8 people every day !  
Joy makes a difference ! ".  

She has toured internationlly with Patch Adams and shared the stage live and online with speaking greats such as Jack Canfield, Bruce Lipton, John Demartini and Patricia Fripp.  
​For almost the past 100 years, mental health professionals have told us that that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. However, there's a much more realistic theory that depression happens due to an imbalance happening outside of your cranium. Johann Hari, author of "Lost Connections", believes that depression these days stem from societal issues. Johann offers some staggering statistics showing that antidepressants seem to be doing much more harm than good — among them, that one out of every four middle-aged women in the United States is taking a chemical antidepressant in any given year.

If we want to get rid of modern-day depression, he says, we have to change society.
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Pats clients include :-
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​Leading individuals  and teams
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Since 2001, Pat has delivered over 1000 keynotes at conferences, and worked in house  with leaders and their teams, developing high trust environments , building resilience and lifting morale using positive psychology principles and humour to show people how to live a fully charged life irrespective of current circumstances.
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She has been able to bring this message to more than a million people in 20+ countries, through her presentations, media appearances and her own radio program which was honoured with a Civic Reception in Auckland   


Down the rabbit hole
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Pat says "Across the globe, many  people lack joy, harmony, trust and are prone to doubt.  They have become despondent and depressed, fail to be their word, sit in overwhelm,  others are resigned and intolerant. Others  show cynicism and act confused ,  and  many lack confidence all of which results in emotional flatlining,   lack of engagement ,  poor productivity and more recently, unresolved grief,  poor mental health and suicides.
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My work is to help people find joy when it appears there is none.   You cant lift your bottom line if your people are down"


​Transforming lives 
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Pat has been inspiring hope, liberating compassion and evoking joy all her life.
Using a strengths based approach , principles from elite performance, conversational intelligence and her own unique capacity to see the good and find meaning  and purpose when things seem hopeless.  
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John Bishop - Media commentator said 
​“Pat commits the cardinal management sin of spreading joy and making people smile. If her practices become widely adopted, going to work will become fun, and people will enjoy the experience. Ultimately she is a dangerous subversive to dullness, mediocrity and boredom. Why can’t we have more like her?”