Conor Randall

Why organisations work with Conor Randall

• A first-person account of stage 4 stomach cancer, metastasis to multiple organs, sixteen rounds of chemotherapy, and a clear October 2023 remission. The story does the persuasion that wellbeing slide decks cannot.
• He gives leaders permission to open conversations about mental health without flinching, because the audience has just heard someone describe the floor of human experience.
• He focuses on the daily practice underneath recovery, acceptance, routine, and belief, rather than slogans. Useful for audiences who have heard every wellbeing keynote and stopped listening.
• He works well as a closing or anchor speaker on conference programmes that need an emotional gear change after dense content.

Biography highlights

• Diagnosed at 29 with stage 4 stomach cancer, with metastasis to the pancreas, gallbladder, and abdominal nodules.
• Completed sixteen cycles of palliative chemotherapy and a partial stomach bypass before stepping away from conventional treatment in September 2022.
• Scans in October 2023 confirmed no active cancer remaining.
• Speaks internationally on resilience, mental and physical wellbeing, mindset, and dealing with setbacks.
• Publishes long-form writing on his recovery, including the essay “An Unexpected Journey” on Medium, and shares the story across LinkedIn and TikTok.
• Represented by multiple international speaker bureaux, including Speakers Associates and Kruger Cowne.

Biography

In November 2021, at 29, a routine investigation returned a stage 4 stomach cancer diagnosis with metastasis to the pancreas, gallbladder, and abdominal nodules. Conor Randall was given an initial prognosis measured in weeks. A partial stomach bypass and sixteen cycles of palliative chemotherapy followed.

In September 2022, he stepped away from conventional treatment and turned to holistic methods, working on stress, trauma, belief, and daily routine. He has written that the work was as much psychological as physiological. By October 2023, scans showed no active cancer remaining.

He now speaks to corporate audiences, conferences, and leadership gatherings about what the recovery actually required, day by day. The talks centre on acceptance, mindset, routine, and the practical content of resilience when a person is being asked to live differently. He writes long-form on Medium, including the essay “An Unexpected Journey”, and is represented by international speaker bureaux, including Speakers Associates and Kruger Cowne.

The value to a serious organisation is narrow but real. He is not a clinician, researcher, or HR practitioner. He is a person who has been to a place most audiences only fear, returned from it, and learned to talk about it in a way leaders can use to open conversations about mental health that would otherwise stay closed.

Key speaking topics

• Resilience and mental wellbeing
• Mindset and belief under adversity
• Dealing with setbacks
• Stress management
• Acceptance and recovery
• Daily routine as a wellbeing practice
• Mental and physical health

Ideal for

• Internal wellbeing weeks, mental health awareness moments, and people-team events
• Sales kick-offs, all-hands meetings, and conferences seeking an anchor or closing speaker with emotional weight
• Leadership offsites where senior teams are under sustained pressure
• Healthcare, life sciences, and patient-facing organisations engaging with the patient perspective

Audience outcomes

• A vivid, first-person reference point for what resilience looks like under extreme conditions
• Permission to talk openly about mental health and adversity inside a professional setting
• Practical handholds, acceptance, belief, routine, that audiences can take into their own week
• An emotional reset on a conference programme that has become dense or transactional