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Katie Duke is a Board Certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in New York City. With over 18 years as a nursing professional, she serves as a mentor, media expert, keynote and motivational speaker, podcast host, and agency represented social media leader.

Ms Duke is respected most for her authentic transparency and relatable content focusing on mentoring, lifestyle, and professional career experience and guidance, with an emphasis on how to grow through your “Bad Decisions” and make them your success story.

Duke completed a Bachelors of Science in Nursing from City University In New York Hunter College, and a Masters of Science in Nursing from Columbia University in the City of New York. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Association for Healthcare Social Media.

She is the host of the “Bad Decisions Podcast”, which is a Top Rated Philosophy Podcast on Apple podcast charts.

Katie was a pioneer of the healthcare influencer marketing model, a campaign dedicated to providing a venue for real life healthcare providers to share knowledge, have representation, promote advocacy, and inspire others throughout the world of social media in diverse, inclusive, motivational campaigns.

Over the course of building her personal platform, she has worked with global brands on influencer marketing campaigns, been featured in women’s empowerment media campaigns, given over 40 academic and organizational keynotes, hosted mentoring workshops, and was featured on the 2020 Emmy Awards for her work as a frontline provider during the NYC Covid19 crisis.

Katie worked the Covid19 crisis in New York City, and subsequently contracted a case of severe Covid19 and required inpatient hospitalization. She knows what it is like to work as a Provider throughout the pandemic, and additionally she understands what it means to be a patient on the other side of the spectrum of the Coronavirus Pandemic. This experience gives her a truly unique ability to deliver encouraging messaging to her healthcare provider audience and inform the public of key public health talking points throughout her platforms.

Katie Duke is a renown public figure in the healthcare community, and with over 200,000 cumulative social media followers, and over75 keynote speaking events under her resume, she has a daily impact on others in her profession, a position she truly values. Ms Duke realizes that as a public figure, you must be accountable, approachable, dedicated, passionate, transparent, relatable, and honest. She strives to empower women throughout her mentoring sessions, podcast, speaking events, international mentoring workshops, and brand campaigns.

areas of subject matter are:

  • Nurse empowerment

  • Leadership in the wave of modern media 

  • Leadership and Impact

  • Mentoring

  • Burnout and non-traditional ways to combat it

  • Non traditional paths of career development

  • Overcoming failure in your professional journey

  • Finding your purpose

  • Growing your career beyond the bedside

  • The impact and importance of nursing representation on social media

  • How to utilize social media to build a presence for advocacy

  • Nurse Advocacy

  • Avoiding the pipeline: how to think outside the box and chase your dream job

  • Building a brand or platform in the age of social media