Fiori Giovanni
Keynote Speaker, Human Rights Advocate & Entrepreneur
Fiori Giovanni is a keynote speaker, best-selling author, and human rights advocate who inspires organisations and individuals to achieve more. Her unique journey from adversity to leadership equips audiences with the mindset, courage, and resilience needed to drive results and embrace meaningful change.
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From the moment Fiori Giovanni takes the stage, audiences are captivated. They laugh, cry, and reflect as they journey through her extraordinary story—one that equips them with courage, resilience, leadership, and a mindset to transform their lives.
Fiori’s life experiences are unlike most in the world. Born in a war-torn African country, she survived a forced child marriage, conscription into the army as a teenager, and a perilous escape on a refugee boat. Through these trials, she discovered the tools to survive, thrive, and empower others. Today, she is a serial entrepreneur, #1 best-selling author, media commentator, human rights activist, proud mother, and highly sought-after keynote speaker.
In 2020, Fiori faced unimaginable grief with the loss of her seven-and-a-half-month-old daughter, Illen. Through this tragedy, she became a certified Self-Directed Healing practitioner and hypnotherapist, further deepening her understanding of resilience, personal growth, and mindset mastery.
Fiori’s message is clear: life is not defined by what happens to us but by how we manage it. Her presentations inspire audiences to overcome challenges, embrace change, and harness their potential. She has delivered keynotes to organisations across Australia, including Honda Australia, John Holland, VicRoads, CPA Australia, Pyrios, Asta, Plan International, Business Chicks, and the Australian Government, among others.
Her insights have been featured in The Age, The Herald Sun, Studio 10, F Magazine, She Defined, Women of Style & Substance, Sunraysia Daily, and numerous other media outlets.
As the founder and CEO of My Mind Valley, Fiori offers online resources designed to cultivate confidence, clarity, and personal fulfilment through affirmations. The platform features over 30 affirmation topics in audio, video, and eBook formats.
In addition to her best-selling memoir, Defy Your Destiny, Fiori contributed to Letter to My 21-Year-Old Self, a publication supporting Sydney’s only daytime women’s refuge, Lou’s Place, alongside letters from Oprah Winfrey, Collette Dinnigan, Lisa Forrest, and Claudia Karvan. Her story also features in It Is All Possible by former world champion yachtsman Rob Hartnett.
Fiori delivers bespoke workshops designed to transform organisational culture and performance. Her six-week, hands-on programs help individuals and teams overcome limitations, shift paradigms, and unlock creativity, focus, and motivation—driving measurable improvements in both personal and organisational outcomes.
Every talk, workshop, and engagement is tailored to the audience, ensuring that every participant leaves inspired, empowered, and ready to take action.
Topics
Mindset
For most people the source of many problems is with their mindset. When their mindset changes, their whole life changes in the space of seconds, days, weeks, months.
Key Takeaways
- Learn how every move you make is controlled and why haven’t you got the result you want so far?
- Learn simple practices to rewire your mind to success, inner fulfilment and peace in 5m or less
- Learn simple practices that will change the behaviour of your brain and ultimately change the outcomes of your life
- Learn how mindset is all you ever need to change latterly anything in your life
Resilience
Albert Einstein once said “Everybody is genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it’s stupid.”
Everyone can achieve outstanding results. Everyone has the potential to achieve remarkable things but for a lot of people that potential is cut short by a lack of the right knowledge and the right strategies at the right time to overcome their challenges.
And the great thing about resilience is that it’s a skill that could be learned just like anything else.
Key Takeaways:
- How to overcome the inevitable challenges of life and use the worst experiences of your life to build resilience
- How to examine your thinking patterns and change the interpretation of the situation, thereby reducing negative feelings between team members and improving team dynamics
- How to cope with adverse and complex work situations, such as negative feedback or conflict
- How to navigate the murky waters of change that is inevitable in this fast-paced modern business and society
- How to find opportunity and growth in every adversity you face and overcome setbacks without stress and anxiety
- How to tap into self-knowledge to effortlessly free yourself from all destructive patterns and limiting beliefs to ultimately become invisible.
Courage in Leadership
Displaying courage is often one of life’s most difficult challenges most people face but yet the most crucial virtue that’s required daily.
To say “No” to distractions, to ask for what you want, to have difficult conversations, to deal with difficult people, to let something go, to believe in yourself, and to inspire great leadership.
Key Takeaways:
- How to get the courage to tap into your inner greatness and self-power
- How to inspire your team to have courage to thrives in times of disruption and take their efforts to new heights
- How to foster the courage you need to challenge the status quo and travel the path less travelled.
