Pam Warren

Pam

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Embrace Change…Create Opportunity…Achieve Results

Organisations that want to succeed need to constantly challenge the status quo from within and without.

If you want engaged, committed, highly productive teams you must be continually evolving, innovating and implementing the best leadership practices possible.

You have to fall in love with change, embrace it as an ally and utilise the opportunities it gives you.

As a fully Accredited Leadership Partner I help with provoking commercial leaders to future-proof their business and enable the finest commercial leaders in the world.

I guide them to clearly identify their strategic goals and then the tasks needed to achieve them. With a background in financial services, and using unique experiences and lessons learnt from before, during, and after surviving a major train crash, I speak to and work with companies to make them resilient and keep thriving even when faced with enormous changes and disruption.

Those I have worked with have learnt to confront the challenges facing them and gained a competitive edge over their rivals.

Coupled with keynote talks to share powerful, compelling practices and strategies that help my impactful core message of ‘never giving up’ resonate with audiences. I show them that any challenge they face is manageable and that success from it is possible.

In October 1999, my life as a financial advisor was turned on its head when I was involved, and severely injured, in the Paddington Rail Crash. Two trains collided head on at a combined crash speed of 130mph and a fireball erupted. 31 people were killed, and 227 were taken to hospital – I was amongst them, I wasn’t expected to survive.

Luckily I did pull through, though I had to undergo scores of operations to help rebuild my badly burned body and endured wearing a plastic mask over my face for 23 hours of each day over the next 18 months. During this time I became the public face of this disaster as ‘the lady in the mask’.

Following the crash, I became a leading spokesperson for improving rail safety. My campaign saw me lock horns with rail management executives and government ministers. I was dubbed a trouble maker, but that was a small price to pay if it helped bring about massive changes in rail safety.

Today I speak to companies on the importance of questioning the status quo by empowering employees to advocate for better systems and processes.