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Kurt Fearnley AO PLY

Olympic Champion | Disability Advocate | 2019 NSW Australian of the Year | Keynote Speaker

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  • Location: Sydney
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Biography

Kurt Fearnley AO is a three time Paralympic gold medalist and two time Commonwealth Games gold medalist. He has won over 40 marathons, including New York, Chicago and London in a career spanning more than 20 years. In 2009 Kurt crawled the Kokoda track, in Papua New Guinea, to raise awareness of men’s health. Kurt was also a member of the winning Sydney to Hobart yacht crew, Investec Loyal, in 2012. He was the New South Wales Australian of the Year for 2019.

Kurt is an accomplished corporate speaker, a published Author (Pushing the Limits: Life, Marathons and Kokoda), host of Tiny Island, You Little Ripper and A Nation Changed podcasts and host of ABCTV’s One Plus One.

Kurt is a passionate disability advocate and devotes himself to a number of national and Hunter-based charitable initiatives. He is a board member of the Australian Paralympic Committee, Newcastle Permanent Charitable Foundation and member of the International Paralympic Committee’s Athlete Advisory Council. Kurt is a former board member of Australian Volunteers International and NSW Australia Day Council and was a founding member of the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s Advisory Council. His involvement at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games wasn’t limited to competing, having been a member of the formal bid team, Games Technical Committee and an official ambassador. Kurt’s exploits both in and out of sport over many years have seen him recognised with a number of honours including 2019 NSW Australian of the Year, 2009 NSW Young Australian of the Year and 2018 The Don winner as the Australian sports person most likely to inspire the nation. In 2018 Kurt was recognised as an Officer of the Australian Order, and received an Honourary Doctorate from Griffith University for his contribution to sport and disability advocacy.

 

Testimonials

Fantastic, the response was appropriate and certainly helped cement our key conference message of Making it Possible. The way Kurt blended stories and experience made it simple for delegates to connect and contextualise the message to their own circumstance.

Salmat

Amazing audience response. He received a standing ovation. Highlight of our conference  

BUPA

Kurt is warm, engaging, funny and inspirational. Without a doubt, he is one of Australia’s most focussed and exceptional athletes – his list of achievements speaks for itself. Despite this, he is supremely modest and unassuming. From the moment he “rolled” up onto the stage we were captivated, inspired and amused. Kurt left us all in a better place and motivated to achieve. We could not have found a better speaker for our conference.

AVENUE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

Kurt Fearnley was engaging, inspiring and easy to work with. He was an invaluable addition to our agenda and the message was on point for what we needed. Thanks Kurt!  

AstraZeneca

Kurt Fearnley was OUTSTANDING! The feedback we have received internally was overwhelmingly positive and the overall rating our opening session received from almost 200 delegates who responded was 9 out of 10. His story is truly amazing and he is an amazing man. This really added to our opening plenary session and provided people the motivation to engage them for a great week ahead of the conference. He is truly an inspiration…thank you for speaking at our conference, you are one in a million!

Pfizer

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