Matt Fenn is a performance and leadership expert who works with organisations to help leaders and teams build the foundations of sustainable high performance.

Drawing on insights from performance psychology, leadership development, and human behaviour, Matt’s work focuses on how people think, operate, and perform under pressure. Through keynotes, workshops, and programmes, he helps organisations strengthen the underlying drivers of performance – resilience, mindset, leadership, and team culture… so people can perform consistently without burning out.

But Matt’s understanding of performance didn’t begin on a stage – it began through years of testing human limits.

What started as a bold idea to raise awareness for mental health in New Zealand quickly became something much bigger. In 2021, Matt ran 654km in under a week – one kilometre for every New Zealander lost to suicide in an average year – a powerful challenge created to bring attention to an issue that was often avoided in public conversation.

Since then, he has continued to push the boundaries of physical and mental endurance. Matt has run 50km a day for five consecutive days across the North Island, completed a 24-hour run wearing a 24kg weighted vest, and climbed the world’s steepest street enough times to match the height of Mt Everest. In 2023, he ran over 3,400km — more than one and a half times the length of Aotearoa – in just 61 days while raising funds for Gumboot Friday.

Experiences like these have given Matt a unique perspective on human performance – not just how people achieve big goals, but how they sustain effort, navigate pressure, and stay grounded through long periods of challenge.

Today, Matt brings that perspective into organisations across New Zealand and Australia. His work combines lived experience with research-backed frameworks from performance psychology and behavioural science, translating complex ideas into practical strategies teams can apply immediately.

As a speaker, Matt is known for being engaging, grounded, and deeply relatable – creating environments where people feel comfortable having honest conversations about performance, pressure, wellbeing, and growth.

He has now spoken to over 90,000 people and continues to work with organisations who want to build cultures of sustainable high performance.

With a long-term goal of speaking to one million people, Matt remains driven by a simple belief: when people strengthen the foundations underneath how they think, lead, and perform, the results ripple far beyond the workplace.