Kate Mikhail

An inspirational look at the relationship between sleep, life, health, work and productivity, using the highly-acclaimed Teach Yourself to Sleep method. This talk is brought to life by Kate’s experience of how much harder life can be when you’re getting by on too little sleep, or poor quality sleep, and how she transformed her sleep and quality of life thanks to researching her book and becoming a sleep expert.

Is your sleep holding you back from reaching your full potential, enjoying your life, or getting the most out of your day? What impact does your sleep really have on your workplace performance, charisma, inner strength and the decisions you make? Understand the number 1 pillar of health, with simple, practical strategies and empowering evidenced-based insight.

What we’ll cover:

• Why quality sleep is fundamental to personal health, quality of life, wellbeing and professional success.
• The self-sabotaging fall-out of inadequate sleep and how to avoid selling yourself short.
• Dynamic leaders & teams: how to inspire, engage and motivate, so all can flourish.
• Why we are facing a 21st-century epidemic of sleeplessness that’s getting worse.
• Work & sleep science: why you need both NREM deep sleep and REM dream sleep for emotional equilibrium, peak productivity, brain power and whole-body health.
• Sleep disrupters, and the three sleep shapers that enable a happier, healthier life with less stress and greater job fulfilment.

Too often we’re disconnected from our circadian selves at the expense of our health, wellbeing, sleep quality, productivity and success. But what does this mean? What can you do? And how can your circadian health supercharge your personal life and your workday too? 

Kate knows first-hand the fall-out of not working with your natural circadian rhythms, and the exhausting and undermining sleep she lived with as a result. Her extensive research, however, allowed her to tune into her circadian self, to strengthen her sleep-wake pattern and with it her energy, focus and quality of life.

Gain self-awareness and natural core strength, with easy, practical tools to take control and thrive – using the ground-breaking and widely-respected Teach Yourself to Sleep method. 

What we’ll cover:

• The circadian you, and how this shapes your mind, body, sleep, personality and performance.
• Circadian misalignment and the negative fall-out both personally and professionally.
• Why so many people are out of sync with their natural physiology, now more than ever.
• How working with or against your chronotype impacts your day and your ability to maximise your potential.
• Chrononutrition – the ideal time to eat certain foods and why it matters, in terms of sleep, moods, performance, weight…
• Why it pays to tune into your circadian self for peak health, energy, productivity and job/life satisfaction.