Keynote speaker · Author · Culture leader
When kindness and high performance meet, incredible things happen.
Kath Koschel is a keynote speaker and founder of Kind Group, helping organisations build resilient people and healthier workplace cultures.
You know Kath from
Australian of the Year 2025
Author of Kindness
Book
A Founder of Kind Group
A Founder of Kindness Factory
A story that will
change how you see
Kath has shared her story with audiences around the world. Watch her bring resilience, kindness and practical leadership to the stage.
Watch Kath SpeakExtraordinary story.
Practical ways to apply it.
Motivational experience and business leadership. Together in one keynote.
People can emotionally connect and then practically apply.
The emotional connection
Personal story →
Human connection
Two broken backs, learning to walk three times, two months on the kindness of strangers. Told with humour. The room feels it.
The practical application
Business leadership →
Practical culture
Founder of Kind Group and Kind Certified. The six-tension framework and takeaways leaders can use.
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A remarkable story.
A purpose that keeps growing.
Kath Koschel is a keynote speaker, executive coach, author and business leader whose work explores how kindness can shape the way we live, lead and work together.
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As founder of Kind Group and Kindness Factory, she brings that belief to life across businesses and communities. Through her speaking, coaching and writing, Kath helps people see new possibilities in themselves, navigate challenges and bring greater humanity to their leadership.
Her purpose is deeply personal. Having rebuilt her life through extraordinary adversity, Kath experienced how profoundly the kindness of others can change someone’s path. Today, that experience informs a body of work dedicated to helping people and organisations move forward with courage, connection and care.
A little more kindness.
Long after the keynote.
The Book
Kindness
The Cards
Playkind Cards
The voice that brings people to every part of Kind Group
Diagnose, Build, Certify. Kath’s approach starts with measurement, ends with proof and stays human throughout.
The business
Culture Intelligence programs and partnerships.
The diagnostics
Measures culture and outputs the EQthentic Score.
The Proof
Certification for organisations that build kindness in.
Kath turns lived experience into lasting change, helping organisations build stronger cultures through Kind Group, while extending kindness into communities and education through the not-for-profit Kindness Factory.
Work with Kath
Bring Kath to your organisation.
From keynote speaking and executive coaching to working with business leaders, Kath combines powerful storytelling with evidence-based frameworks to inspire meaningful, lasting change.
Every engagement is tailored to your audience and objectives, leaving people inspired and equipped to put ideas into action.
Kath works out of Sydney and LA, spends time in London and travels internationally. She has spoken in 15+ countries, both in person and virtually.
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Kath Koschel
Kath Koschel is a survivor who has overcome incredible odds and unimaginable tragedy to inspire ordinary people to do extraordinary things. Koschel is a former cricketer and Ironman competitor whose world came crashing down when she broke her back twice in the span of five years and was told that she would never walk again. Instead, she faced the challenges head-on and defied all medical prognosis by teaching herself to walk again on three separate occasions. In the midst of these harrowing experiences, she believes she experienced two things in large amounts: adversity and kindness.
Powerful Story
A moving story of hope, resilience and the life-changing power of kindness
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