INSPIRE, BELIEVE, PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE
Dr. KAREN WEEKES
Endurance Adventurer | Performance Psychologist
Achieve optimal performance levels!
Karen is an incredible motivational speaker who has ‘walked the talk’!

Martina Finnerty
AMD
She exudes energy and is a phenomenal storyteller – she is authentic, the real deal.

Leslie Brett
Lennox Laboratory Supplies
The inspirational story of her amazing journey, told with humility and humour was by far the best keynote I have ever heard.

Professor Marie Murphy
University of Ulster
Karen was the most engaging and amusing guest
…a wonderful person…
…a wonderful person…

Ryan Tubridy RTE
The Late Late Show
We were delighted to welcome Karen back to MTU Kerry to give a guest lecture on ‘Building Resilience’ to our student engineers. Karen shared insights, and amazing footage of her inspirational journey to be the first Irish female to row solo across the Atlantic, highlighting the importance of setting goals, prioritising, managing fears, hard graft, the power of networking, strategies for managing stress and all the while engaging with the students and relating every bit of it back to their own journey.

Cathal Geary
https://reedi.ie/
We had the recent pleasure and honour of having Karen Weekes as our opening guest speaker at
our annual Salon Sessions 2023 event. We could not have asked for a more inspirational and
motivational first speaker as it really set the tone for the day ahead. The whole room was fully
engaged and truly in awe of this women`s incredible story

Caroline Newton
https://www.imageskillnet.ie/
We had the honour in Diligent Galway of being taken on a wonderful journey of reliance and the importance of a positive mindset backed up with a steely determination by the truly inspiring Karen Weekes

Ruairí Conroy
Diligent Corporation
She engaged our audience of 200 people + with an inspirational and informative talk that captured the room

David Brennan
PDST Team Leader
Karen is the perfect antidote to procrastination, inspiring people to take risks, follow their dreams and build their own personal resilience

Professor Donna O’Shea ISSC
Munster Technological University
Any engagement with Karen blows the cobwebs well away
and leaves audiences energised
and leaves audiences energised

Cathy Buchanan
Meitheal Mara
She is a wonderful communicator, really understands human behaviour from a scientific and personal perspective, and is a real pioneer in pushing the boundaries for personal challenge and for girls and women in sport

Prof. Catherine B. Woods
PAfHRC University of Limerick.
Karen Weekes is the real deal. She combines outstanding personal achievement with extraordinary humility

Pádraic Ó'Máille
Smácht Business Consultancy

A full documentary film telling the fascinating story of Karen’s Atlantic adventure is being developed by Gary De Buit of Studio 8 Labs … more news soon!
Meanwhile, Karen is currently putting pen to paper writing a book about her ocean rowing experiences, and effective methods she used to cope with the challenges