Fran Hurndall

What does it really take to keep going when everything in you wants to stop?

From running 3,800km across Australia in 60 days to dribbling a football 1,000km during the FIFA Women’s World Cup, Fran Hurndall has pushed her body and mind to the edge — but her greatest endurance challenges came off the track. In 2024, she learned her sister had been suffering in a domestic violence relationship, echoing her mother’s own experience. It was a revelation that shifted her mission from chasing personal records to running for something far greater.

This keynote dives into the mindset, discipline, and adaptability needed to overcome obstacles — whether on the sporting stage, in business, or in life. Fran shares the strategies she used to keep moving forward through exhaustion, self-doubt, and public pressure, and how finding a purpose beyond yourself can turn adversity into fuel.

Audiences will leave with a new understanding of resilience: not as an innate trait, but as a skill that can be built, tested, and strengthened.