#5: Three Ways to Battle Back And Get on Track to Follow Your Dreams After a Major Life Event

Imagine being nearly killed in a hit and run accident and then emerging with more fire than ever to pursue your passion. This is Kat Pattillo's journey and she shares it with Worth Knowing. From her life-threatening experience in 2019 to becoming a leader in education reform, Kat's perspective on life and career goals changed after her brush with death. Kat shares insights on resilience, long-term thinking, and advice for overcoming challenges, highlighting how her near-death experience shaped her approach to taking risks and making a positive impact in the field of education. Kathlyn (Kat) Pattillo believes that we need to pay attention not only to well-known education 'success stories' in places like Finland, Singapore, and Canada, but also learn from systems change bright spots such as Brazil, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Indonesia. As a researcher, she writes stories and produces tools about how leaders in the Global South created education innovation and reforms. And as a facilitator, she designs experiences for leaders to learn from those examples about how to strengthen schools. Kat also speaks, advises, and teaches about how leaders transform Global South education systems - through pathways such as coalition and movement-building, collective impact, networks of proximate leaders, and large-scale systems change with government. She is the Founder of Global Graduate School of Education, which runs field trips for education leaders to learn from Global South education systems. Their first program is the Coalition for System Reform, which strengthens foundational learning coalitions and runs cross-country immersion trips for government policymakers across Brazil, South Africa, Kenya, and India. Alongside this, Kat writes the EdWell newsletter and is writing a book about how to improve education (with examples from seven of the world's largest countries). Outside of work, you can find her rowing, going to yoga, cooking, swimming and finding peace in nature - in the mountain town of Asheville. Follow her at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-pattillo-25923111/ Substack: edwell.substack.com Instagram: @katpattillo Website: kathlynpattillo.com Resources Sign up for the Worth Knowing LinkedIn Newsletter to stay up to date: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/worth-knowing-7236433935503618048/ Follow Bonnie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonnie-habyan/ Go to the Worth Knowing website: https://www.worthknowing.show Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices