Sera Johnston is an international expert, supporting and empowering parents of children with disabilities.
Having combined a highly successful 25-year training and development career with her personal journey of raising her daughter Dana, following her lifechanging diagnosis of cerebral palsy at 13 months old - Sera knows first-hand what it is like to suddenly have your world change in a heartbeat.
In 2011, Sera fundraised £75,000 in 6 months in order for her daughter to have a life changing operation called Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy in America. Over the years, with her mother’s support, Dana has gone on to defy the professionals, who predicted she would not be able to hold a pen and would be confined to a wheelchair for life.
Today, having achieved 3 distinction stars in her 6th form exam results, Dana is not confined to a wheelchair, and lives independently studying for her law degree at University.
Sera was one of the experts on the NHS Steering Group with UK neurosurgeons, NICE, NHS England, and health professionals which resulted in NHS England approving Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy, as a commissioned NHS service for children aged 3-9 with Cerebral Palsy.
Trusted for her caring and supportive approach, personal experience and authenticity, a Master NLP Practitioner, Executive Coach and Health Coach, Sera has become a highly sought after coach & mentor, helping to change the lives of women raising children with disabilities around the world, helping them to reclaim their identity, health and happiness.
As a highly experienced consultant in training, leadership and team development, working with employers, organisations and charities Sera is regularly commissioned to work with leaders and managers on a strategic level in addition to facilitating bespoke team away days to enable better collaborative working within teams and stakeholders.
Sera was one of the leading specialists working at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in management development, team development and coaching.
A speaker and author of Dana’s Walk and co-author of Transforming Your Life, in addition to working with mothers of children with disabilities around the world, Sera empowers others to create their own identity and live a life of no limits.
In this interview you will learn:
1. There is always a solution if you don’t take no for an answer
2. How Sera’s daughter has taught her about not putting limits on ourselves
3. The importance of getting time for yourself
4. Why Coronavirus should be making us think about who we want to be when the pandemic ends