Pat Buckley Founder of Amped4Life

Pat and his wife Karen

Pat Buckley is the Founder and Managing Director and of Amped4Life Trust formed in 2002. Amped4Life is a non-profit organisation that was formed to help bring insight and understanding to teenagers about the dangers of substance abuse and the importance of making good choices.

Pat is passionate about his subject content and speaks from the heart and a lifetime of experience. He addresses thousands of young people across New Zealand, challenging them to reflect on their own choices and implement change where it is needed. He brings credible and powerful examples of the full implications of bad decisions and desires to empower the individual to take ownership for their choices and mistakes, to learn from them and to grow through them. Pat imparts critical life skills and tools to help them on their journey and transition from childhood to adulthood.

Pat is a dynamic and powerful speaker with an authentic message which drives home the reality -”your life can change with one bad choice”.