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Katie McDonald is your ally in creating a deeply transformative event that rejuvenates (and delights) your audience.

When you book Katie, you book a speaker who takes her work as seriously as you take yours.

View Katie’s speaker resources below, and email Katie directly at katie@katiemcdonaldspeaking.com if you need anything else for your event with her

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Speaker Info

Katie McDonald is a speaker, coach and author. She specializes in working with high achieving women who take care of business at the expense of taking care of themselves.

Since she was 6 years old, she’s had a relentless and unnerving obsession with daily planners, ultimately publishing the b.nourished planner when we all needed it most-in 2020.

She is trusted by Harvard University, Fidelity Investments, Facebook, Women Presidents’ Organization, Stanley Black & Decker and many more, Katie has been featured in HuffPost, Dwell, Apartment Therapy.

Her Audible Originals course: Self-Care Strategies: Nourish to Flourish launched in March 2026. She survived an IRA bombing in London, the San Francisco earthquake, the rescue of a ferry sinking in the Baltic, and an emergency crash landing in Tokyo. But it was a Zen meditation retreat that finally took her down.

Over two decades ago, the demands of Katie McDonald’s corporate career occupied her every waking moment. She was left feeling depleted and depressed—suffering from spiraling mental and physical health crises that threatened her life.

Left with no choice but to transform her body-mind relationship, Katie abandoned her corporate job and finally started applying her knowledge of self-care, alternative health, and plant-based nutrition.

Since then, Katie has been on a revitalizing journey of lifelong self-care.

Fully recovered from years of self-neglect, Katie now helps fellow doers embrace self-care so they can do more and be more while leading healthier, more intentional, and more nourished lives.

Katie leads with tough love to inspire, empower, and challenge audiences. She dispels the destructive myth that self-care is an obstacle to productivity and teaches that self-care is, in fact, a tool to create a more powerful and impactful legacy.

On paper, Katie McDonald had it all. She was an international sales rockstar who outhustled the competition and crushed her goals in the U.S., Europe, and Canada.

But Katie’s relentless drive for productivity came at the expense of everything that mattered: her relationships, her time, her health, her emotional wellbeing. The demands of her corporate career occupied her every waking moment.

Then, one day, she missed one meeting. One.

Her mental health was already so precarious, that’s all it took to push her over the edge.

Katie had no choice. Facing spiraling mental and physical health crises that threatened her life, the have-it-all-together image Katie had spent years building was quickly crumbling.

She had to take action for herself—immediately.

Katie left her corporate career behind…and life started to get better. Slowly but surely, she started making meaningful investments in herself and her own mental health.

As Katie replaced destructive habits with healthier ones, she began to heal. And after years of trying and failing to become a mother, she conceived her son Sage only once she was able to parent herself. By loosening her grip on perfectionism, she made wise and grounded choices that showed respect for her mind and body. That shift changed everything.

Katie started to think intentionally about every decision she made—and for the first time in her adult life, Katie started actively implementing everything she had ever learned about self-care, but never practiced.

Today, self-care is at the very center of everything Katie McDonald does.

Fully recovered from years of self-neglect, Katie now helps fellow doers embrace self-care so they can do more and be more while leading healthier, more intentional, and more nourished lives.

A professional speaker and self-care strategist, Katie leads with tough love to inspire, empower, and challenge audiences. Katie dispels the destructive myth that self-care is an obstacle to productivity and teaches that self-care is, in fact, a tool to create a more powerful and impactful legacy.

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