Turia Pitt

About Turia

Turia Pitt was a young mining engineer in 2011 when she was caught in a grass fire during an ultramarathon in Western Australia and suffered burns to 65 per cent of her body. The years of surgery, rehabilitation and the slow re-construction of a life that followed have become one of the most-told resilience stories in Australian corporate speaking — but the way Turia tells it is sharper, funnier and more honest than the framing suggests.

Since her recovery, Turia has competed in the Ironman World Championship, written multiple bestselling books, raised two children, and built an online business helping people work on the same set of skills she leans on herself. She speaks with practicality about the small, repeatable decisions that, over years, became a life she actually wants — not a triumphant comeback but a hard-built and often unglamorous one.

For corporate audiences, Turia is a powerful keynote choice for leadership events, women's programs, wellbeing days and major conferences. She's experienced across in-person and virtual formats and consistently rates among the highest-recalled speakers at the events she presents at. Her tone is direct, irreverent and intentionally light — the opposite of the heroic register the story might suggest.