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From impossible to unstoppable

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About me

  • Professional
  • Keynote Speaker
  • Business
  • Entrepreneur


The Only Speaker Who Turns Your Team's Biggest Challanges Into Their Greatest Strengths. 

Value Proposition: Norliza transforms challenges into competitive advantages through storytelling, building unbreakable team resilience.

Speaker Description: When Fortune 500 companies and women's organisations need teams that deliver breakthrough results under extreme pressure, they book Norliza Pavlakos. As a Golden Gavel recipient and Top 10 global female speaker, she reveals through powerful storytelling how your organisation's greatest obstacles become your most powerful competitive weapons.

From surviving homelessness and a near-fatal abduction to not just surviving but thriving by building multiple successful enterprises including Australia's first Miss India International pageant, a thriving restaurant business, a 5-location tailoring operation serving prestigious clients like Australian Open and Marriott Hotels, and My Mind Hub, a healthcare platform used by doctors across Australia to connect patients with mental health specialists, Norliza provides the proven frameworks that transform crisis into competitive advantage. Her audiences at Microsoft, Dell, Qatar Airways, Emirates, and women's leadership conferences don't just feel inspired. They develop the unbreakable mindset that creates sustained peak performance when others panic, struggle, or give up.

With a 4.9/5 audience rating and global recognition, Norliza doesn't deliver temporary motivation. She equips your teams with the mental frameworks that turn pressure into profit, setbacks into strategic wins, and challenges into lasting competitive advantages.

Perfect for corporate events, women's conferences, leadership summits, or any organisation facing market disruption and needing breakthrough performance during uncertainty.


SPEAKER TOPICS

Keynote 01

Conviction: The Mindset That Builds Teams Who Never Quit

Format: 45-60 minute keynote + Q&A

This Programme Is Ideal For:

· High-pressure industries requiring unshakeable mental strength

· Sales teams facing relentless targets and market turbulence

· Leadership conferences focussed on building resilient cultures

· Organisations where giving up is not an option

· Teams needing to perform when everything goes wrong

Attendees Will Gain:

· The moment when "impossible" becomes just another word

· How true conviction transforms ordinary teams into unstoppable forces

· The decision-making clarity that emerges from life-or-death situations

· What it feels like to lead with unbreakable confidence during chaos

Through riveting storytelling from her book "Conviction" and harrowing survival experiences, Norliza takes your teams inside the mindset that refuses to quit. They'll witness how conviction is forged in the crucible of adversity and leave knowing they possess the same unbreakable spirit that creates breakthrough performance against impossible odds.


Keynote 02

The Pressure-Proof Leader: How to Turn Your Toughest Challenges Into Your Greatest Competitive Advantage

Format: 45-60 minute keynote + Q&A

    This Program Is Ideal For:

  • Executive leadership teams facing major transitions
  • High-performing sales organisations under market pressure
  • Companies navigating disruption, downsizing, or rapid growth
  • Leadership conferences focused on resilience and performance
  • Organisations where burnout is impacting bottom-line results

    Attendees Will Gain:

  • The mindset shifts that create breakthrough performance under pressure
  • How to reframe any crisis as a competitive opportunity
  • The leadership approach that builds resilient, high-performing teams
  • Proven strategies for turning obstacles into organisational advantages

Through powerful storytelling, Norliza reveals how she transformed homelessness into global recognition and personal trauma into a healthcare technology platform serving medical professionals nationwide. Your teams will be inspired to see challenges differently and equipped with the mindset to turn pressure into peak performance.


Keynote 03

From Homeless to Global Impact: Leading When Everything Changes

Format: 45-60 minute keynote + Q&A

    This Program Is Ideal For:

  • Women's leadership conferences and empowerment events
  • Mental health awareness summits and workplace wellness programs
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion corporate initiatives
  • Entrepreneurship forums focused on overcoming barriers
  • Annual conferences needing inspirational yet practical content

    Attendees Will Gain:

  • Why your worst circumstances contain your greatest opportunities
  • The mindset patterns that separate those who survive from those who soar
  • How authentic vulnerability becomes unstoppable strength in leadership
  • Practical frameworks for rewriting any narrative into a success story

This historically unique transformation story provides teams with living proof that no starting point is too low for extraordinary achievement, while delivering actionable strategies for personal and professional breakthrough.





Based in

Victoria

Available in

Need me to travel to your location? I will travel for opportunities in:
Australia

Endorsements

This was my favourite talk of the year! I was so captivated I could not even multi-task. I didn't want to miss a word!
Courtney Valis | Strategic Account Specialist, Microsoft