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Justin Wren
Effective Leadership
Growth Mindset
Purpose
Transform resilience into organizational impact with Justin Wren, humanitarian leadership speaker and former UFC fighter. Justin equips teams with purpose-driven leadership strategies and personal accountability frameworks, inspiring authentic workplace cultures. His Fight For The Forgotten initiative delivers global humanitarian solutions recognized across major media outlets worldwide.
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Justin Wren is a former UFC fighter turned humanitarian leader whose work bridges elite sport, resilience, and global community impact. A two-time national champion wrestler and Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame inductee, Justin is the Founder and Executive Director of Fight For The Forgotten. Justin's mission began after a life-threatening battle with addiction led him to re-evaluate his purpose. A defining journey to the Democratic Republic of Congo transformed his outlook, setting him on a path to support the Batwa, Efe, and Mbuti Pygmy communities.
Through his organisation, he has helped deliver clean water, land rights, sustainable agriculture, healthcare, and freedom from slavery to thousands of people. His work continues to expand across sectors, partnering with organisations that value social impact, resilience, and meaningful action. Alongside his humanitarian leadership, Justin draws on his background as a 10-time State Champion, 5-time All American, and experienced UFC competitor in his memoir Fight For The Forgotten, while his podcast Overcome With Justin Wren, explores topics like mental health, trauma recovery, and the everyday battles people face. In today's corporate environment, where purpose-driven leadership drives engagement, Justin demonstrates how personal accountability and resilience can transform challenges into opportunities.
His experiences show organizations how to build authentic team cultures that embrace discomfort for growth while maintaining unwavering focus on meaningful goals. These principles help companies navigate uncertainty while creating sustainable impact. Audiences leave Justin's presentations with practical strategies for overcoming obstacles, frameworks for setting and achieving ambitious goals, and renewed belief that individual contributions matter regardless of position. His storytelling inspires people to recognize their capacity for meaningful change within their professional roles.
Book Justin to give your team a rare combination of raw authenticity and actionable leadership principles that transform personal purpose into organizational impact.
Topics, sessions and talks
Justin Wren charts his path from elite combat sport to humanitarian action, revealing how a near-fatal turning point reshaped his understanding of leadership, purpose, and resilience. Justin explores personal accountability, navigating adversity, and the discipline required to rebuild a life of service. Through vivid stories from the Congo Basin Rainforest, he connects frontline experience with universal workplace challenges, showing how small, consistent actions create lasting change. Audiences gain renewed belief in their individual capacity to contribute meaningfully.
Justin Wren, former UFC fighter turned humanitarian leader, delivers a powerful blend of authentic storytelling and actionable leadership principles that show teams how to transform challenges into opportunities while creating meaningful impact. Book Justin to inspire your organization with practical strategies for overcoming obstacles and building a purpose-driven culture that drives engagement and sustainable results.
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Justin Wren structures his presentations around first-person field narratives drawn from his time working with Pygmy communities in the Congo Basin Rainforest, using these accounts to anchor leadership principles such as personal accountability and resilience in documented, real-world outcomes.
Justin Wren speaks on leadership principles, resilience and personal accountability, purpose-driven action, and navigating adversity through his work in the Congo Basin Rainforest with marginalised Pygmy communities. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Fight For The Forgotten, a humanitarian organisation that has delivered clean water, land rights, and healthcare to thousands, and is a Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame inductee and former UFC competitor.
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