A motivational speaker on resilience, who uses his personal experience to engage audiences and inspire change.
A motivational speaker on resilience, who uses his personal experience to engage audiences and inspire change.
Andrew delivers powerful and inspiring motivational talks both in person and online.
Whether you’re looking to motivate students, teams, or organisations, Andrew’s story and expertise will captivate and transform his audience.
His sessions are designed to:
Empower
Inspire and empower audiences to face life’s challenges with confidence. His experience of this is second to none.
Explore
The importance of resilience and how it shapes success and growth. Looking at obstacles in your life and how you view these.
Equip
Provide practical tools to help individuals build resilience and thrive, no matter the barriers.
You'll receive practical tools to build resilience.
Through Andrew’s experience he can give the practical tools making his story both relatable and actionable, helping audiences apply them to their own lives.
1. Reframing Challenges as Opportunities
- Sharing how he shifted his mindset from seeing HSP as a limitation to an opportunity to inspire others
- Encouraging others to identify small wins and celebrate progress, no matter how modest
2. The Power of Routine and Consistency
- Discussing how routines like weekly speech therapy have helped him stay focused and capable, despite
the challenges - Emphasising the importance of setting daily goals that reinforce self-discipline and purpose
3. Building a Support Network
- From his wife Sarah’s endless and positive support, to help from his children. Patto’s son Drew, helps with daily tasks. His middle daughter Brooke, brings a sense of calm. And his eldest daughter Ella made incredible fundraising efforts to help get his operation in the USA
- He offers tips on how to ask for help, build meaningful connections, and find people who uplift you
4. Focusing on What You Can Control
- Sharing examples of how Patto found ways to adapt and thrive despite physical limitations
- Patto teaches strategies like breaking large problems into smaller, manageable tasks
5. Harnessing Gratitude and Positivity
- His talks deal with how gratitude for family and the opportunities that followed his surgery. Patto focuses on how this helped him maintain positive mental strength
- Patto encourages people to focus on what they can do instead of what they can’t
6. Developing Problem-Solving Skills
- Sharing moments of when he had to think creatively, such as planning the logistics of the surgery or adjusting to life in a wheelchair
- He equips his audience with simple frameworks for tackling challenges step-by-step
7. Physical and Mental Health Strategies
- Highlighting how staying active, even with physical limitations, and engaging in speech therapy has kept Patto moving forward
- Patto shares the importance of mindfulness, breathing exercises, or journaling for mental clarity
8. Setting Meaningful Life Goals
- Discussing how focusing on big-picture goals, like his operation and public speaking aspirations, give purpose. Something everyone needs in life
- Encourage his audience to define their “why” and align their actions with it