Kate Mikhail
As a sleep specialist, coach and author, Kate Mikhail shares her cutting-edge research on how to optimise sleep for peak performance, health & wellbeing.
Reasons to book Kate Mikhail
- Certified integrative psychotherapist, Kate specializes in sleep, stress management, and resilience building, offering organizations actionable solutions for better performance and wellbeing.
- Author of the acclaimed Teach Yourself to Sleep, Kate’s work has been featured in The Guardian, Observer, and Psychologies, providing organizations with practical sleep strategies.
- Unlock peak performance with Kate’s science-backed sleep strategies. She equips teams to harness the power of better sleep for lasting success.
Kate Mikhail is the author of the acclaimed Teach Yourself to Sleep: an ex-insomniac’s guide, a sleep expert & coach. She is passionate about helping others understand their sleep, so that they can upgrade their sleep and reach their full potential.
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Keynotes
Keynote by Kate Mikhail: Unleash the power of sleep: What shapes your sleep & how to upgrade it?
An inspirational look at the relationship between quality sleep, peak performance and optimum success. What affect does poor sleep really have on your ability to inspire, or be inspired, your productivity, leadership, or the quality of the decisions you make?
In this insightful talk that explores the world of sleep – drawing on Kate’s widely acclaimed Teach Yourself to Sleep method – you can start tuning into your own sleep-wake cycle, the Three Sleep Shapers and the little changes you can make to your day to enhance your sleep, so that you can boost your performance, inspire those around you and reach your full potential.
In this session Kate will delve into:
The self-sabotaging fall-out of poor sleep and how you could be selling yourself short.
Dynamic leaders & teams: how to inspire, engage and motivate, so all can flourish.
Work & sleep science: why you need both NREM deep sleep and REM dream sleep for peak performance, cognitive clout & stress resilience.
What are the top sleep disrupters, and the three sleep shapers – and how to action positive change?
In this insightful talk that explores the world of sleep – drawing on Kate’s widely acclaimed Teach Yourself to Sleep method – you can start tuning into your own sleep-wake cycle, the Three Sleep Shapers and the little changes you can make to your day to enhance your sleep, so that you can boost your performance, inspire those around you and reach your full potential.
In this session Kate will delve into:
The self-sabotaging fall-out of poor sleep and how you could be selling yourself short.
Dynamic leaders & teams: how to inspire, engage and motivate, so all can flourish.
Work & sleep science: why you need both NREM deep sleep and REM dream sleep for peak performance, cognitive clout & stress resilience.
What are the top sleep disrupters, and the three sleep shapers – and how to action positive change?
Keynote by Kate Mikhail: Banking stress resilience, while you sleep: How to stress bust your days & your nights
Stress disrupts our sleep and poor sleep quality weakens our stress resilience – risking overwhelm, low performance, disillusion and burn-out. So how to turn this around, to become more stress resilient and create a sustainable and rewarding work-life-sleep balance, where you can excel?
By understanding how to intercept this stress cycle and improve the quality of your sleep, you can start making small but impactful changes to help you wake up recharged, stress resilient and empowered to reach your professional and personal goals.
In this talk we will explore:
How daily stressors spike your cortisol, disrupt your sleep & undermine your resilience.
The power of evidenced-based stress busters that you can drop into your day.
How quality sleep impacts the body & brain and our emotional reaction to the challenges that come our way.
How to shift your physiology & mindset, boost your sleep quality, to be the stress-resilient you.
By understanding how to intercept this stress cycle and improve the quality of your sleep, you can start making small but impactful changes to help you wake up recharged, stress resilient and empowered to reach your professional and personal goals.
In this talk we will explore:
How daily stressors spike your cortisol, disrupt your sleep & undermine your resilience.
The power of evidenced-based stress busters that you can drop into your day.
How quality sleep impacts the body & brain and our emotional reaction to the challenges that come our way.
How to shift your physiology & mindset, boost your sleep quality, to be the stress-resilient you.
Workshop by Kate Mikhail: Complimentary, Interactive Workshops
Kate’s keynotes have complimentary, interactive workshops structured around practical tips, skills and actionable strategies:
Unleash the Power of Sleep
This workshop unpacks the Three Sleep Shapers, equipping attendees with the insight, key tips and techniques they need to further strengthen their natural sleep-wake cycle, so that they can improve their sleep quality and with it their professional performance, cognitive function and mind-body health.
Banking Stress Resilience, while you sleep
In this workshop Kate shares her tried-and-tested stress busters, scientifically shown to reduce stress and as a result improve sleep quality. Attendees explore stress & sleep, but crucially how to intercept their physical and emotional stress response, so that they can be more in control and stress resilient.
Unleash the Power of Sleep
This workshop unpacks the Three Sleep Shapers, equipping attendees with the insight, key tips and techniques they need to further strengthen their natural sleep-wake cycle, so that they can improve their sleep quality and with it their professional performance, cognitive function and mind-body health.
Banking Stress Resilience, while you sleep
In this workshop Kate shares her tried-and-tested stress busters, scientifically shown to reduce stress and as a result improve sleep quality. Attendees explore stress & sleep, but crucially how to intercept their physical and emotional stress response, so that they can be more in control and stress resilient.
Kate Mikhail
Unlock Peak Performance Through Better Sleep
Kate shares with her audience why quality sleep is so fundamental to our physical and mental health, our performance, productivity and the decisions we make, and why we need to look at sleep from a unique and completely different perspective, to start each day strong, resilient and firing on all cylinders.
After years of being awake half the night with chronic insomnia, at the mercy of recurring burnout days, while working for national newspapers, Kate knows how debilitating it can be to survive on too little sleep.
More importantly, she also knows the extraordinary potential we can all unleash by enhancing the quality of our sleep, having delved into the biology and science of sleep to fix her chronic insomnia, while researching Teach Yourself to Sleep – ‘Her brilliant new book that delivers accessible science to help you take back control’ Psychologies.
Teach Yourself to Sleep, published by Little, Brown and Company, has been widely featured, including in the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, Huffington Post, Independent, Mail on Sunday, Hello!, Good Housekeeping, Psychologies, Radio 2 Book Club, Talk Radio, RTE, BBC Radio Scotland, Mind Love, Wellness Curated.
Kate’s Guardian Masterclass How to Sleep: transform your whole-body health has reached a global audience, empowering individuals with fascinating insight and practical, actionable tips & techniques.
Inspired by her years of research into the science of sleep and her comprehensive sleep method, Kate has qualified as an integrative psychotherapist, specialising in sleep, stress management and resilience building. She is also a sleep leadership advocate, focussed on how leaders can help their teams strengthen their core wellbeing and up their professional game via their sleep health.
After years of being awake half the night with chronic insomnia, at the mercy of recurring burnout days, while working for national newspapers, Kate knows how debilitating it can be to survive on too little sleep.
More importantly, she also knows the extraordinary potential we can all unleash by enhancing the quality of our sleep, having delved into the biology and science of sleep to fix her chronic insomnia, while researching Teach Yourself to Sleep – ‘Her brilliant new book that delivers accessible science to help you take back control’ Psychologies.
Teach Yourself to Sleep, published by Little, Brown and Company, has been widely featured, including in the Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, Huffington Post, Independent, Mail on Sunday, Hello!, Good Housekeeping, Psychologies, Radio 2 Book Club, Talk Radio, RTE, BBC Radio Scotland, Mind Love, Wellness Curated.
Kate’s Guardian Masterclass How to Sleep: transform your whole-body health has reached a global audience, empowering individuals with fascinating insight and practical, actionable tips & techniques.
Inspired by her years of research into the science of sleep and her comprehensive sleep method, Kate has qualified as an integrative psychotherapist, specialising in sleep, stress management and resilience building. She is also a sleep leadership advocate, focussed on how leaders can help their teams strengthen their core wellbeing and up their professional game via their sleep health.
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