Kate Christie

Kate Christie's Biography

Kate Christie is Australia’s leading Time Management expert, Speaker, best-selling Author of five books, and a sought after media commentator. Kate is highly regarded for her dynamic, engaging and entertaining presentations where she educates audiences on the right strategies and habits to ensure you find and harness hours of lost time and then plan for and deliberately use that time to live a life by design.

As a leading voice on productivity, goal setting and designing your best life, Kate consults to organisations of all sizes and compositions across every industry you can imagine. As a media commentator, Kate is an Opinion Columnist for CEOWorldMagazine, Mamamia and Your Life Choices, works with Kochie’s Business Builders, is a regular guest on the Luke and Susie Radio Show and works across tv, radio, podcasts and the print media.

Kate is in the business of helping you find time - lots of time - and using that time well.

Kate’s authenticity is one of her greatest assets - her focus is on ensuring your audience is left with a lasting impact on the way they choose to lead, live, work and play. Her style is direct, practical, engaging and entertaining. Everything Kate does is intelligently, strategically and enthusiastically focussed on maximising your audience’s time to ensure they can live the life they love. Y

our audience will walk away with a clear action plan on what they can do differently for immediate productivity and lifestyle gains.

Who better to Emcee your event than a time management specialist!? Kate will keep your event on track with an intelligent, humorous and informed approach to keeping your audience, sponsors and other stakeholders highly engaged.

Kate regularly appears on television, radio, podcasts and in print as a leading commentator on smart time investment, goal setting, ‘The Life List’, ‘Me First’, succeeding in small business, women in business, and maximising work/life integration to ensure your success across work, family, community, and life.

Kate is an Opinion Columnist for CEOWorldMagazine which has more than 12.4 million monthly page views and is one of the most widely read and respected magazines in the world, and opinion columnist for Mamamia and Your Life Choices, and a co-host for Kochie’s Business Builders.

Speaking Topics Include

#1 Power Up Your Productivity

Your audience is Time Poor. There are 3 key Time challenges they face:

1. They don’t Plan their time
2. They don’t Control their time; and
3. They don’t Focus on the right tasks at the right time

What they really want is MORE TIME! Kate has stepped tens of thousands of audience members through her ‘5 SMART Steps’ framework to solve these frustrations:

1. Learn how to set amazing goals and plan your time around them
2. Take Control of your time and drive your own agenda
3. Gain clarity over your priorities to maximise your productivity And most importantly - find an extra 30 hours a month to design a life you truly love.

#2 How to Change Your Life in 90 Seconds

Based on Kate’s Award Winning 5th book: ‘The Life List’, in this masterful keynote Kate will take your audience on an incredibly inspiring ride that will change their lives. For the last decade Kate has worked with thousands of incredible, high performing teams and individuals just like you - people who:

• want a more fulfilling, sustainable, leveraged work and family lifestyle
• want to continue to thrive in their career, while also realising phenomenal personal achievement, growth, space and freedom; and
• know that they have to get back into the driver’s seat and curate their perfect futures. But just HOW on earth do you actually design your perfect life?

What starts off as an amazing idea can pretty quickly lead to complete overwhelm and paralysis. Do not give up! Changing your life is actually a lot easier than you might think. In fact - you can do it in just 90 seconds.

#3 How To Set and Smash Audacious Goals

The research is clear - people who set written goals are significantly more likely to achieve their goals than those who don’t. If you want your high performing audience to take their success to the next level, it’s time to educate them on the Why, How and What of goal setting. An interactive and engaging goal setting masterclass, your audience will leave this session with:

• A minimum of one written 5 year goal • A minimum of one written annual goal
• The Framework, knowledge and structure they need to set and smash all of their goals
• Maximum Motivation

#4 Future Proof Your Organisation - Maximising Productivity with a Hybrid Workforce Future proof your workforce with the #1 key soft skill they need working in a hybrid or digital nomadic workforce - smart time management.

The world of work has changed and your organisation needs to stay ahead of the curve or risk losing the war for talent. More than ever, talent is voting with their feet and you need them to vote for you. Support your new business model by upskilling your leaders, middle level managers and staff on how to maximise output in a new world of work.

Equip your workforce with the skills, resilience, mindset and communication skills to:

• work remotely or in a hybrid work environment
• recognise the common productivity mistakes leaders are making right now
• how to avoid making them; and
• proven strategies to position your organization and team for the workforce of the future

#5 Team Productivity Protocols

This Workshop is targeted at high performing teams wanting to work together with synergy and at pace to remove organisational drag and to maximise individual and team productivity. Kate will walk your team through the best tailored productivity strategies for your team/ profession/ physical working environment, and will facilitate agreement on your new Team Protocols. Your team will be left with:

• The tools and confidence on how to better invest their time and to respect the time of everyone else
• A written suite of Team Protocols ready for implementation

#6 Me First - the guilt free guide to prioritising you

Based on Kate’s 4th book: ‘Me First’ (published globally by Wiley in 2020), this Keynote is targeted at every professional woman who is juggling her magnificent career or business life with motherhood. For every woman who has wrestled with Imposter Syndrome; Mothers Guilt; never saying No; never having enough time; forever being Busy; and forever doing everything for everyone but herself. For every woman who needs a reminder that if she is truly to be the best possible version of herself, then it’s OK to put herself first, at least some of the time. Kate challenges your audience to:

• debunk their feelings of self doubt
• realise they can be both a great mum and have a great career
• take care of their own wellness to avoid burnout or opting out
• be the absolute best version of themselves - the guilt free guide to prioritising you!