Turia Pitt is an author, engineer and internationally recognised keynote speaker. She is currently completing a Master of Women’s and Children’s Health at UTS.
She has built a global community of more than one million people, coached tens of thousands of women through her programs and spoken for organisations including Google, Qantas and MECCA.
In 2011, Turia was caught in a grassfire during an ultramarathon and sustained burns to 65 per cent of her body. The years that followed profoundly shaped her understanding of courage, identity and what helps us keep going when life gets hard.
Drawing on that experience, her Tahitian heritage and contemporary research, Turia now shares the Mana Framework: a practical way to grow the inner power we draw on when things get hard by acting with courage, practising compassion for ourselves and connecting with others.
She has also sailed around French Polynesia, competed at the Ironman World Championships, raised millions of dollars for Interplast and somehow become an answer on Hard Quiz.