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From surviving leukaemia to co-founding an award-winning skincare brand, Lauren Murrell turns adversity into practical lessons on resilience and mindset for organisations navigating change. She has spoken for Goldman Sachs and featured in Forbes.
Lauren Murrell is a resilience and mindset speaker whose story of survival and reinvention shapes how she helps organisations navigate uncertainty and lasting change.
At 23, weeks before her final law exams, Lauren was diagnosed with leukaemia and given a 20 percent chance of survival; a stem-cell transplant from her sister saved her life. What followed was months of protective isolation, multiple rounds of chemotherapy, and total body irradiation. Determined to finish what she had started, Lauren returned to law school, qualified as a lawyer, and built a corporate legal career in London, New York, and the Caribbean. She later left law and co-founded By Sarah with her sister, growing an award-winning skincare brand from their kitchen table into one stocked in Ocado, Planet Organic, and Macmillan Cancer Support.
Lauren draws on rebuilding her life twice, first after leukaemia, then after Hurricane Irma destroyed the Caribbean island she called home, to show audiences how resilience, courage, and perspective carry people through setbacks. Her sessions combine personal storytelling with practical lessons on embracing change and building a meaningful career, translating hard-won experience into guidance organisations can apply immediately.
Audiences leave with concrete ways to reframe setbacks as opportunities, build the confidence to take risks after rejection, and sustain motivation through periods of prolonged change. Her approach has resonated with students at Oxford, executives at Goldman Sachs, and teams navigating their own uncertain transitions.
Book Lauren for a keynote grounded in real adversity and the practical mindset that turns it into growth.
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At 23, Lauren Murrell was diagnosed with leukaemia and given a 20 percent chance of survival. This session traces the mindset shifts that carried her through treatment, a stem-cell transplant from her sister, and the uncertain months of recovery that followed. Lauren shares the specific thinking patterns that kept her moving forward, giving audiences a practical framework for facing their own high-stakes moments with clarity, courage, and hope rather than fear or paralysis.
Courage rarely arrives as a single decisive moment; more often it is built through repeated small choices made under pressure. Drawing on her own experience of leaving a secure legal career and rebuilding her life after Hurricane Irma destroyed her home, Lauren Murrell unpacks where courage actually comes from and how to access it deliberately, on stage and off it. Attendees come away with a practical way to recognise their own courage and put it to work.
Lauren Murrell explores what happens when life changes in an instant and the future becomes impossible to predict, drawing on a period of extended protective isolation while undergoing leukaemia treatment. She shares how she found blessings and appreciated connection during prolonged disconnection and distance, and why perspective matters most when circumstances are hardest to control. Attendees leave with a practical way to hold onto gratitude in adversity and keep sight of the future, whatever it brings.
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Lauren Murrell structures her sessions around personal narrative drawn from two distinct life-rebuilding experiences — surviving leukaemia and recovering from Hurricane Irma — using each as a case study to extract transferable mindset frameworks. Audiences leave with a named, practical tool they can apply to their own high-pressure circumstances.
Lauren Murrell speaks on resilience and mindset, courage under pressure, and gratitude in adversity. She survived leukaemia at 23 with a 20 percent chance of survival, later qualified as a lawyer, and co-founded the skincare brand By Sarah, which is stocked in Ocado, Planet Organic, and Macmillan Cancer Support.
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