Norliza Pavlakos is an award-winning international keynote speaker who turns lived adversity into practical resilience for the people in the room. A Golden Gavel recipient, she has delivered keynotes to Fortune 500 companies, C suite executives and leadership teams worldwide. Audiences leave with a clear framework for staying steady under pressure, leading through uncertainty, and rebuilding after setback.
She has built five businesses from zero capital across three decades and is the founder of The Support Pages, Australia’s GP trusted mental health directory, and of the Liza Pavlakos Foundation, which subsidises professional therapy for trauma survivors and disadvantaged communities.
Norliza’s two books also explore the action of turning hard-won wisdom into something tangible. In Conviction: How I Turned Trauma Into Purpose (2026), she tells the raw, unflinching story of survival and the mindset that carried her from nothing to global stages. In The Indefatigable Entrepreneur: Built From Nothing (2026), she reveals what it truly takes to build a business, a career, and a life against the odds.
Norliza offers four keynotes, each meticulously curated to target specific audience groups based in both wellbeing and advocacy, as well as corporate and leadership sectors. The keynotes cover topics including but not limited to:
- Resilience
- Adversity + Bias
- Motivation
- Leadership
- Business Strategy
- Burnout
- Future of Work
- Artificial Intelligence
Norliza does not teach resilience from research. She speaks as living evidence of it.