Alka Patel

I’m Alka – a doctor, coach, speaker, author and podcaster who amplifies health as a skill and an asset so that inspired individuals and bold businesses can create compassionate lifestyle changes for happy, healthy, living and connected workplace wellness.

One of my greatest passions is to empower and equip individuals and organisations to:

Discover, Notice and Activate
who they are, what they want and where they are going

I have been a medical doctor for over 20 yearsand I began my professional career much like many. On a professional high, driven to build my career and find success. But this drive in my professional life meant I put my health on the backburner. Closed my eyes to the signs in front of me.

The result– a collision course with burnout that ended with me spending my birthday and weeks after in a hospital bed, close to shut down.

I found out the hard way that my career in isolation wasn’t supplying me with the energy, resilience, strength and happiness that I needed, and that prioritising my health was by far the most important thing I needed to do to help my career to flourish.

Creativity, productivity and longevity are all achieved when you give yourself the self-nourishment you need to feed your professional soul.

Despite working hard as a Dr to help people become healthy, I realised that healthcare was headed in the wrong direction. An over-reliance on medication as a cure for every illness and a dependence on doctors to wipe away symptoms was detracting from what really mattered.