Katrina Webb is recognised and acknowledged for her success as a Paralympic athlete. She has won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in athletics at three Paralympic Games.  She was the first torch bearer to enter the Stadium for the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games and in 2006 Katrina was selected on behalf of the International Paralympic Committee to speak at the United Nations in New York. 

Off the track Katrina is the Director of Silver 2 Gold High Performance Solutions which specializes in powering organisations, teams and individuals best.  Katrina is a global ambassador for the International Paralympic Committee and due to her own experience in dealing with a disability and a deep love of helping others, Katrina is the Founder and Director of Newday Leadership a platform to inspire leadership for the greater good. 

Katrina Webb is an international speaker, a leadership and personal mastery consultant, a trainer in Wellbeing and Resilience, a physiotherapist and an accredited workplace trainer and assessor.

Katrina loves to be challenged. She has walked the Kokoda track and has trekked to Basecamp Everest twice. She is also a mother to not just to one but to three beautiful boys. 

As a professional People Whisperer, Anneli has been working with leaders and teams to improve their communication and interpersonal intelligence for over a decade. She brings to her clients a recognised expertise in the field of below conscious communication and motivation. She is obsessed with decoding people and performance dynamics for improved results.

Anneli is also an accomplished leadership speaker, mentor and co-author of Developing Direct Reports: Taking the guesswork out of leading leaders. She is currently working on her next book: ‘Decoding Resistance: The real reason people won’t do what you want’. Anneli’s flagship leadership program for young professionals was a recent finalist in the 2014 LearnX Awards and she was a proud finalist in ANZI Coaching’s ‘Coach of the Year Awards’ in 2010, earning the designation of Master Coach in 2012. 

Susan is the author of the transformational and practical book, Money Intelligence® – Anchored in Values (click HERE to learn more). She is driven to help people achieve financial liberation and truly believes you can become financially free by developing a healthy relationship with money.

Susan is a leading financial strategist with an uncanny ability to create lateral solutions to complex tax and financial problems. She is a CPA, an Authorised Financial Adviser with Wealth Today Pty Ltd (AFSL no. 340289) and an SMSF specialist.

Susan Wahhab is known for transforming her clients' financial lives. She listens carefully and asks insightful questions to get to the heart of people’s financial issues and tailor solutions.

Comfortable with getting uncomfortable, she’s at the forefront of creating workplace success by helping people embrace the unknown and fall in love with change.

Her key to cultivating thriving environments is working with people through three lenses: as an individual, a leader, and in their wider role (and influence) within their organisation. Tapping into each of these facets, she brings self-awareness to the forefront, empowering people to work with those around them in a way that is productive, healthy and happy.

With every industry, market or sector facing disruption, we are living in a time of unprecedented change. Now more than ever organisations need leaders at every level, inspiring progress by harnessing the energy and capability of its individuals. No matter the organisational system, Michelle is able to equip people with personal insights and a practical toolkit so they are able to take the pragmatic and purposeful steps needed to identify, harness and leverage unseen opportunities.

With her PhD underway, Michelle also holds an Undergraduate Degree in Communications and Commerce, a Masters in International Trade, Certification by the International Federation of Compliance Associations, and Chartered Manager status. She also finds time to give that little bit extra – regularly featuring and writing for major national publications and media outlets.

Jo heads up the Melbourne business and partners with the executive HR community to source exceptional talent across contract and permanent positions. Jo has a deep understanding of, and interest in, change management and total reward specialisations.

As a member of the company's executive team, Jo is responsible for developing the strategic business plan for the Melbourne HR consulting practice and leading initiatives through to execution.

As a Recruiter she likes to work in an open and transparent manner. She ensures her customers are provided with all the information they require to make the best possible decisions for them and their business. Drawing from her experience across three overseas markets, she has the additional advantage of bringing a level of international insight to the table.

Outside work she tries to maintain a level of sanity in an extremely active household which includes two Jack Russells and a Maltese Shih Tzu.

Jacinda is a Clinical Psychologist and a Full Member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) College of Clinical Psychologists. She has a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology and a PhD from Flinders University.

Jacinda has worked as a psychologist over the last 17 years working in both the public and private sectors. She worked as a psychologist with the Department for Education and Child Development (DECD) for many years, providing support to teachers, SSO's and families around understanding and supporting students' emotional, social and learning needs and needs in relation to identified disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD and dyslexia in the classroom and at school more broadly. Jacinda has also worked previously as a psychologist within a large Adelaide R-12 school to support students, school staff/mentors and parents about how to promote student well being within a classroom and home setting.

Jacinda has also worked as a research psychologist, including herr PhD research in the areas of caregiving, coping, illness and grief and loss.

Finally, Jacinda has also had many years of working with children and teens individually in a therapy setting. In her current role at Developing Minds, she is passionate about helping young people who are finding life difficult because of different personal, social, familial or other circumstances.

She is experienced in supporting individuals experiencing anxiety, depression/low mood, social issues, bullying/exclusion, disordered eating and body image issues, anger and frustration, sleep issues, oppositional/defiant behaviour, trauma, grief and loss, relationship issues, LGBTQ+ / gender diverse issues, drug and alcohol issues, perfectionism, obsessive-compulsive disorders and organisation/study issues. She is particularly passionate about helping children, teens and families in managing challenges so they don't get in the way of living the life they want.

Jacinda’s therapeutic approach is flexible and adapted to the individual, their age/level of development and their presenting concerns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) feature predominantly in her work.

Stephen is the founder of ETM, a niche organisation passionate about delivering high impact learning to help organisations to rapidly improve performance. He helps people & organisations to learn, unlearn and relearn.

He loves helping people to make sense of our fast changing and complex world, and, to play a role in supporting and developing world class leaders for the future. He is pragmatic about supporting organisations achieve the goal of 'Business Agility'.

Stephen has many years (over 25 years+) of international business experience working in countries such as UK, Ireland, Belgium, Hong Kong, USA and Australia. As a project manager, he successfully managed a multitude of different types of projects across many different countries, the largest being a complex upgrade of a US$2bn ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system across 17 countries in Europe.

Over the last 8 years he has become an exceptional course designer and workplace trainer/facilitator in project delivery practices, and is a presenter at events & conferences.

Paul possesses a unique multi-disciplinary background in Facilitation, Coaching, Natural Health, Hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Martial Arts that is underpinned by over 30 years of experience.

He is a highly sought after Facilitator and Coach and delivers programs on Leadership, professional skills, mindfulness, resilience, hypnosis and NLP to corporate clients and health professionals. Paul also maintains a private practice as a Clinical Hypnotherapist and has successfully worked with a broad array of physical and psychological conditions.

Paul's approach is highly pragmatic and focused on elegantly practical applications that can be used anywhere, anytime and with anyone.

- Increasing Your Hypnotic Responsiveness (self hypnosis video)

- Building Your Resilience and Immunity During The COVID-19 Pandemic

- The Esdaile / Coma State demonstration - Deep Hypnosis Phenomena

Victor is an author, speaker, compère, moderator & barrister. His services include supporting & advising the finest Australian & global leadership with optimistic leadership advice and strategy, advocacy, engagement support, integrity, crisis management and social media. For the right causes, his team undertakes CEO & board searches with optimism as a sought-after quality.

He is a Director on the Boards of Yarra Valley Water, Lifeguard Health Networks, the Global Integrity Summit & the Australian Centre for Financial Studies.

Victor's experience includes stints as Commissioner to the Americas, 18 years a parliamentarian, practice as a barrister, mediator, arbitrator, businessman and board service. He was Senior Engagement Adviser in the Australian G20 presidency supporting Australian leadership of the G20 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors & in the Brisbane G20 Leaders Summit described by the Prime Minister as "the most important gathering Australia has ever hosted."

Jenny is a Medical Doctor and Specialist in brain health and high performance thinking, author three books and an award-winning speaker.

Her books include:

Smarter Sharper Thinking : Reduce Stress, Banish Fatigue and Find Focus

Brain Fit : How Smarter Thinking Can Save Your Brain

She helps individuals, teams and organisations to improve their mental performance, productivity and efficiency using neuroscience and science-backed behaviour change methods. Jenny is passionate about mental health and is keen to share her insights particularly in this unusual time where stress can creep up on you.

5 quick tips to reducing stress and anxiety Free downloadable pdf

As an Independent LinkedIn Consultant & Trainer, Karen has been working for over 10 years with professionals and organisations to teach them how to navigate LinkedIn. Her practical and easy to follow approach to managing your online presence is based on relationship building and content marketing principles.

Wendy is on a mission is to help people in business apply strategies that will enable them to be their best, and as a result do their best work. She started her first business, iPeople, in 2005, and went on to create iMastery in 2010, but has been designing and facilitating workshops on leadership, management, productivity, and recruitment since 2003.

When not working Wendy loves getting outdoors with her partner Michael and their two young daughters. She also enjoys reading, cooking with organic whole foods, daily walks with her dog, and is grateful for any week when she can make it to three or more yoga classes!

A psychologist since 1990 and business leader since 1995 Audrey has first-hand insights into the stresses and strains of life as a senior executive and the impact of leaders’ behaviours on a team’s wellbeing and an organisation’s performance. She has also coached 500+ leaders on an individual and team basis and has conducted research into the wellbeing profiles of more than 5000 leaders.

Audrey co-developed the Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey (GLWS) with long–term business partner and psychologist, Karen Gillespie. GLWS was built upon robust, evidence–based research and over 50 years combined professional experience in organisational psychology, leadership development, executive coaching and capability design initiatives.

With the GLWS, Audrey has become an accidental researcher, entrepreneur and technologist. While it was never in her plans to do so, her expertise in psychometrics, organisational psychology, coaching and leadership development have converged as a natural evolution.

Diana Renner is a director and co-founder of the Uncharted Leadership Institute. In her work as a leadership educator and organisational consultant, Diana weaves together adaptive leadership, adult development and complexity theory. She is passionate about the role experiential learning plays in developing capability for success in complex, uncertain and changing environments.

Diana has facilitated leadership development programs within Australia and internationally, including as a guest faculty member with Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas.

Diana is the co-author of Not Knowing: the art of turning uncertainty into opportunity, winner of the Chartered Institute of Management ‘Book of the Year’ award in the U.K. and translated in ten languages. Her follow-up book, Not Doing: the art of effortless action has been translated in five languages.

Pete has a burning passion to both help leaders create organisations that are great places to work , as well as equip individuals with the awareness and tools to create sustained happiness and wellbeing.

Over the past fifteen years he has worked with over 20 000 participants around Asia Pacific delivering leadership development, culture transformation, behavioural safety leadership and enabling wellbeing masterclasses and programs.

His breakthrough book, ‘Lessons in Happiness from the Third world’ details the essential ingredients of happiness that the West seems to have forgotten or become too busy to pay attention to.

This has led to Pete becoming a sought-after speaker resource for conferences and organisations including the Workplace Wellbeing university, The Executive Connection (TEC), The CEO Institute, Deakin Prime, The Golden Door, Rotary International, and many others.

Pete’s unique edge lies in his ability to create understanding, meaning, and inspiration, and he provides practical tools and practices to sustain happiness and positivity in all circumstances.

With over 1500 hours and ten years of coaching and facilitation experience, Charity is skilled at building trusting relationships fast, and working clients them in a way that is respectful, warm and challenging. Charity creates rapport fast, and works with humour and storytelling to share her expertise, and create a safe environment for leaders to challenge themselves to develop and practice new skills.

Charity is an ex-psychotherapist, who started her corporate world in banking and finance. She has worked with all levels from grads to senior leaders in a range of industries, teaching leadership skills, including coaching, feedback, ethics, story-telling, emotional and social intelligence, motivation and influencing.

She is interested in the practical, and works hard to ensure that what is learned in her workshops are immediately applicable in the outside world. Comfortable to have difficult conversations, in groups and one on one, Charity supports her coaching counterparts and workshop participants to push past their current boundaries, and open up possibilities for professional success and happiness.

Joan Lurie is the CEO of Orgonomix, a company she founded in 2008 to assist leaders and organisations to transform themselves and to function at their growing edge. Her work integrates strategy, systems thinking, complexity and adult development theory.

Joan works with executives and leadership teams to help them rewire their thinking to be more systemic, and to design and lead complex adaptive and second-order change in their organisations. With over 20 years of practice and experience, she has taken up both internal corporate as well as consulting roles, helping companies achieve turnaround results - emerging new cultures, operating models and different organisational systems, whilst simultaneously building their adaptive capacity.

Through this practice and experimentation, Joan has developed Orgonomics™ - a proprietary methodology which provides a ‘map’ for leaders to navigate the emerging complexity they face in the new economic landscape. Referred to as ground-breaking, Orgonomics™ enables leaders to fundamentally transform their ways of seeing and knowing; reframe their assumptions and mental maps and repattern their organisational systems for new ways of relating and operating, to achieve higher order functioning and performance.

As a developmental psychologist and systemic change leader Joan’s core purpose is to ensure that leaders and organisations are able to continuously develop, adapt and grow to be fit for and thrive in our complex, ambiguous, uncertain and volatile context. Functioning at our growing edge and developing our adaptive muscle used to be a nice-to-have, but it has now become our individual and organisational imperative; we have to accelerate it for the good of our whole ecology.

Zandy Fell is a Director with The Zalt Group. As a workplace conflict resolution practitioner, Zandy’s passion is supporting others to prepare for & participate in difficult conversations. She is an experienced and successful mediator, conflict coach, restorative justice facilitator and workplace investigator. The Zalt Group have extensive experience in conducting cultural reviews and supporting the implementation of recommendations.

She combines a legal and HR background with a decade “in the trenches” of industrial relations in the automotive industry. Proactively she supports people to manage their own working relationships for strategic advantage. She has been described as “compassionately confronting”. Zandy’s comfort in conflict is contagious as she supports others to identify & implement their options during workplace conflict.

Zandy is currently honoured to be a Restorative Engagement Facilitator with the Commonwealth Ombudsman for the Defence Force and previously for the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce (DART). She has been appointed to the Expert Panel for the Commonwealth Ombudsman to provide strategic insights and training regarding transformational justice. She has also been appointed as a Direct Personal Response Facilitator for the Victorian Government under their commitment to the National Redress Scheme providing a restorative engagement. She is also on the Department of Health and Human Services Positive and Fair Workplace Panel and the Victorian Police panel to provide conflict resolution initiatives.

Peter Spence has a Master of Education and several other post-grad quals. He has spent a lifetime in physical education, sport development, and coaching, including more than 20 years in the Australian high-performance sports system, with the Australian Institute of Sport and the Victorian Institute of Sport.

He has a strong focus on ways to nurture the inner self, whilst developing outer life skills and career capacities and will offer examples from professional sport from around the world. In all spheres of life, from education to sport, the arts and business, he strongly promotes the use of mindful meditation, along with recovery and regeneration protocols and balanced nutrition, as ways to stimulate the body’s natural immune system. Peter stresses that these are particularly relevant at this time of COVID-19, and that self-care and compassion for those around us must not be neglected.

Scott has had over 25 years experience in the corporate world, primarily in banking and finance. He has also been operating as a strategic adviser, management consultant, speaker and facilitator in corporate, government and community environments for the last 12 years.

Scott is also a certified Emotional Intelligence (EQ) expert, and he blends this with his knowledge, practical experience and life journey to create customised solutions for both the organisations and individuals that he works with, enabling them to be the best that they can be.

Scott's mental health condition has had an impact on him from a very young age and continues to be part of his everyday life, however, he has worked hard to develop and implement appropriate management strategies in the interests of improving his overall quality of life. Scott is always happy to share his experiences with others and to talk about how his depressive condition both serves and challenges him as he goes about his daily life.

During a 25-year career, Nicola has worked with senior leaders in large organisations across both the private and public sectors, the focus being on organisational development and change. Over time she became a student of leadership and in 2014 she founded Evolving Leaders with the purpose of evolving the consciousness of leaders to make the world a better place.

Under the banner of Evolving Leaders, Nicola’s mission is growing better leaders – leaders with the capacity, skills and consciousness to ignite the cultural evolution that is desperately required right now in many workplaces. Her work is inspired by the vision of the ‘human’ teams and organisations of the future that we need to be designing and creating right now to respond and flourish in a rapidly changing world.

As a leadership and organisational development professional, Nicola is a trusted, advisor, mentor, and consultant partnering with clients on cultural change and leadership development programs to ignite evolution and generate change.

As an Executive Coach, Nicola supports people to step into the driver’s seat of their own development and to take conscious and committed action to becoming better versions of themselves. The results? Increased levels of leadership effectiveness, personal fulfillment and business performance.

Nicola brings a fresh perspective into her work, combing her extensive corporate experience in organisational development and change with a decade of intense personal development which includes the study of the arts with a degree in music, a deep fascination with art therapy (counselling) and practical experience with mindfulness and meditation.

Dr. Tom Verghese is a consultant, executive coach and principal of Cultural Synergies. He has been an independent consultant for nearly 30 years specialising in diversity and inclusion, global leadership and cultural intelligence. Working with people in different parts of the world has provided him with a broad perspective and the ability to provide groups with the safe space to be able to explore relevant topics.

He is a regular blogger and podcaster contributing to developing high performing, effective and ethical leaders. A passionate educator, father, student and community member, he brings a broad perspective of East and West to life as well as a refreshing candour to his client interactions.

The topic of Conscious Ageing has been of close interest to him over the last few years as he finds himself in the ageing process and wishes to do so consciously. 

Norman Buckley is a specialist with over 40 years experience in test development and organisational work. His work focuses on delivering practical organisational benefits underpinned by deep psychological understanding.

His clients include global consultancies, multi-nationals in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, retail, aviation, cosmetics, telecommunications, financial services, transportation, food and tobacco sectors, as well as in central and local government departments and education. 

Norman primarily focuses on research and development while providing in-depth support to the global network of Facet5 partners. Current interests focus on analysis of national character, cross cultural assessment, the creation of culture free ability measures and the interaction between personality and problem solving style.

Annalise Jennings is a business and community strategist with 25 years’ experience in Corporate Banking. Over her career, she has specialized in projects that focus on transformation and maximizing human potential, winning the prestigious SAI Global Business Excellence Award 

She has worked extensively with Australian Indigenous communities and is the creator of Whole of Community Change – a blueprint for economic development, social change and spiritual wellbeing. See her TEDx Talk “The SHIFT from Paternalism, Prohibition, Penalty”. A Finalist for the Banksia Foundation Awards, Annalise addressed the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainability and Leadership. In 2017 she was invited to the Nobel Peace Prize Awards in recognition of her community work. A commissioned book, It’s Possible, highlights the success of her Community work and provides guidelines for those wishing to emulate it in their own communities.  

Bringing a blend of corporate professionalism, profound humanity, and indigenous wisdom to her work, Annalise has helped many organizations create balanced and strategic cultures. Working globally, Annalise has dedicated her life’s work to bringing the age-old principles of belonging, connectedness, and caring for the whole into mainstream groups. 

Famous for asking the unexpected questions, for provoking a shift in dialogue and for inviting leaders to bring both their hearts and their minds to work of creating high performance - Sonia never shies away from the tough conversations.

Sonia has a skill for emerging what wants to be known, what needs to be seen and working alongside leaders to re-pattern the team dynamic - from the inside-out.

Adept at navigating complex team and interpersonal relations, Sonia is not only a masterful facilitator, she's also an expert in creating partnerships and team environments that bring about unprecedented levels of individual and collective performance and change that sticks. A leader in her field, Sonia brings a unique and indefinable energy to every room and actively engages the inner spirit of leaders and their teams.

Peter has worked as a facilitator and executive coach for over 25 years in more than 30 countries across a broad range of industries including mining, oil and gas, banking, government services, telecommunications, education, indigenous affairs, media, legal and financial services. The focus of his work has been on Leadership development and organisational culture change. Included in this period, Peter held the role of a senior facilitator with McKinsey & Company’s Mindsets & Capabilities Practice from 2001 to 2009.

On a personal front, Peter has had a long- term love affair with Martial Arts and Eastern Philosophy. He has studied and taught karate for over forty years, achieving a 4th dan ranking in Okinawa in 2017. He is married, with two children, one cat, has a book about to be published and is a struggling surfer. 

Richard Lawton’s clients are executives, lawyers and leaders who need to demonstrate a powerful presence and confidence in all manner of communication. His unique approach enables his clients to deliver a clear, authentic message. As master voice coach and consultant, Richard has worked with managers and teams, executive-level managers, C.E.O.’s and board directors. As a theatre director and performing arts lecturer, Richard has worked with the Sydney Theatre Company, N.I.D.A., Sydney and Monash Universities.

Richard has worked with thousands of individuals internationally, over his 30-year career. The core of his work has always maintained a focus on assisting people to achieve their potential. He is a specialist in body language and voice work, which has assisted him in devising the “stand and deliver” method, a way of fast-tracking clients in uncovering and re-arranging belief systems.

His book is titled RAISE YOUR VOICE.

Dr. Amy is a holistic physician, mindfulness coach, long-time athlete, devoted student of transformation, wife, mother and occasional poet. Her passion is supporting people of all ages in enhancing their health, experiencing joy, and finding flow (or perhaps more accurately letting flow find them).

She offers mindfulness coaching and holistic medical care to children, adolescents, parents, and human beings from all walks of life. Before moving to Santa Barbara she also worked with employees and executives from Apple, Google, Stanford, Square, Genetech...

This session is for everyone— those of you staying home, those of you working from home, those of you on the frontlines, those of you out of work, those of you with young children or adult children at home, and those living alone…. In this practical, interactive session Amy Saltzman M.D., author of A Still Quiet Place: Mindfulness Skills for Achieving Peak Performance and Finding Flow in Sports and in Life will show you how the mindfulness and self-compassion practices that athletes use to find flow can support you during this unusual time.

Some of you may be dealing with anxiety and depression due the ongoing changes in your day to day lives. Others of you may simply realize this pause in your hectic life is an ideal time to up your mental/ emotional game and practice skills scientifically proven to benefit elite athletes, business leaders, creatives, frontline heroes, people dealing with typical day-to-day stress, and those facing more intense challenges. So join us as we learn skills for achieving peak performance and finding flow.