1-2 April 2025, International Convention Centre, Sydney
Chief Executive Officer
Mapien
Chief Executive Officer
Mapien
Founder & CEO
CU Health
Founder & CEO
CU Health
Dr Patrick Aouad is an internationally published consultant neurologist and the founder and CEO of CU Health, Australia’s leading health and wellbeing platform for employees. CU Health was developed to support the increasing demand on employees, and to protect organisations from the negative impact poor employee mental and physical health can have on culture, performance and engagement. He is passionate about improving health outcomes for people through human centred technology and a leading voice on workplace wellbeing and its economic impacts.
How do you improve organisational mental health and empower the workforce in both physical and psychological safety? In this session, hear from Australian HR Awards’ Best Health and Wellbeing Program winner as they share the design behind their award-winning initiative. Learn key strategies for implementing successful wellbeing interventions, securing organization-wide buy-in, and driving improved health outcomes.
Group Manager Risk & Safety – WHS & Wellbeing
City of Parramatta Council (AHRA 2024: Best Health and Wellbeing Program winner)
Group Manager Risk & Safety – WHS & Wellbeing
City of Parramatta Council (AHRA 2024: Best Health and Wellbeing Program winner)
Paul is an experienced safety and risk manager, with recent history of WHS consulting in the utilities sector, specialist safety and wellbeing businesses and project management. Paul currently manages WHS strategy, Wellbeing programs and broad areas of risk for City of Parramatta Council for the past 4 years and is currently the Chair of NSW CouncilSafe Advisory Network.
An organisation’s performance is directly related to the wellbeing of its people. An employee may have poor wellbeing due to life circumstances, mental or physical health concerns or a fundamental flaw in their organisation’s management and culture. How can we personalise and scale solutions to protect and uplift wellbeing?
Founder & CEO
CU Health
Founder & CEO
CU Health
Dr Patrick Aouad is an internationally published consultant neurologist and the founder and CEO of CU Health, Australia’s leading health and wellbeing platform for employees. CU Health was developed to support the increasing demand on employees, and to protect organisations from the negative impact poor employee mental and physical health can have on culture, performance and engagement. He is passionate about improving health outcomes for people through human centred technology and a leading voice on workplace wellbeing and its economic impacts.
This session will cover the latest employment law updates ranging from the Right to Disconnect, positive duty and the increased regulatory focus on managing psychosocial hazards.
Senior Associate
Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors
Senior Associate
Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors
Alana is a Sydney-based employment and industrial relations lawyer with unique experience representing peak employer associations in large scale work value proceedings, including the groundbreaking Aged Care and Nurses & Midwives work value cases, which have set important precedents for future wage determinations.
Alana was also involved in the largest work value proceedings in Fair Work Commission history, addressing gender undervaluation across key industries such as childcare, health services, and social and community services.
An accomplished advocate, she regularly represents employers in critical forums, including the Modern Awards Review 2023-24, Annual Wage Review 2023-24 and before the Productivity Commission.
As employer obligations to protect employees from psychosocial hazards increase, what exactly are companies doing to mitigate these risks to create safer work environments? What happens when wellbeing programs don’t work? What are companies doing to protect their frontline staff? Hear how different companies are applying psychosocial risk management practices at work.
Chief People Officer
mycar
Chief People Officer
mycar
Fiona Murphy is the Chief People Officer at mycar Tyre & Auto. In this role, Fiona is responsible for HR, Safety, Talent, Internal Communications, L&D and Sustainability. Prior to joining mycar, Fiona held senior HR roles across many industries and three continents, including education; community services; not for profit; retail; media; technology; and engineering. With qualifications in psychology and law, Fiona’s expertise spans employee relations, employee engagement, learning and organisational development, and workplace health and safety. She is passionate about building great cultures and ensuring organisations have a people first focus. In addition to her role at mycar, Fiona was Deputy Chair of the Automotive Light Vehicle Industry Reference Council for a number of years, and is now a proud member of AAAAWomen, championing careers for women in the automotive aftermarket.
Head of Workplace Health & Safety
Qantas Group
Head of Workplace Health & Safety
Qantas Group
Pete is the Head of WHS for the Qantas Group and a medical doctor. He believes that aviation and health have more in common than they in how they differ, and sees how both fields require high performance and carry the responsibility of human life in their respective safety critical work environments. He also sees how success and failure factors arise from the performance and vulnerability of people. So, Pete works passionately in humanising systems of work – by managing the confluence of WHS, psychological safety and moral safety towards trauma informed and inclusive safety cultures.
Head of Health, Wellbeing & Injury Management
BAE Systems
Head of Health, Wellbeing & Injury Management
BAE Systems
Over her 20-year career, Karen has seen the Health & Safety industry transition from focussing only on physical risks to one that is embracing wellbeing and psychosocial safety. As a Health & Safety Leader and wellness advocate dedicated to fostering psychosocial wellbeing in both professional and personal spheres, Karen is passionate about collaboration and creating supportive workplace environments that integrate initiatives promoting mental, emotional and physical wellbeing. Karen’s mission is to shape workplaces where employees are supported to thrive at work, leveraging the intersection of leadership, empathy, and proactive wellbeing strategies to deliver effective risk management strategy for the organisation.
In this interactive session, find out how to use mindfulness to reduce your stress and improve your mental clarity and focus at work with simple practices.
Ayurvedic Health Coach
Ayurveda with Supriya
Ayurvedic Health Coach
Ayurveda with Supriya
Supriya is a holistic health expert with a distinguished corporate background, culminating in a director role at Apple. She combines ancient Ayurvedic practices with science-backed Western methods, working with well-known brands and high-profile clients in Sydney and London.
Through evidence-based workshops on Restorative Sleep, Transforming Stress, and Optimising Daily Habits, Supriya empowers individuals to thrive both personally and professionally. An engaging speaker, she translates ancient Ayurvedic wisdom into practical strategies that calm the nervous system, reduce stress, and sustain energy throughout the day.
Around 20,000 refugees can enter Australia each year, bringing with them a wealth of experience, skills, knowledge and diverse cultural backgrounds, yet most struggle to secure employment. Hear how IKEA has worked towards overcoming these barriers through its award-winning program, and about the company’s ambition to encourage other employers to take action.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Leader
IKEA
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Leader
IKEA
Growing up in Western Sydney as the son of Sri Lankan migrants, Josh has experienced both the benefits of diversity and the barriers to inclusion. Sparked by this lived experience, Josh has forged a career empowering underrepresented communities including Multicultural and Disability Inclusion Leader at AFL NSW/ ACT, launching programs like Kickability and wheelchair AFL. At IKEA Australia, Josh drives strategic initiatives to embed equality, diversity, and inclusion into business operations, fostering an inclusive culture where co-workers can thrive. His work ensures IKEA Australia contributes to our global ambition to be a leader in equality and inclusion.
What does it take to embark on a 2200km unsupported kayak journey across the open ocean? What kind of mindset is needed to survive skiing 3 months across Antarctica surviving blizzards, crevasses and severe malnourishment? Why on earth would someone willingly commit to a 102-day walk across the Australian Outback with a one-year-old??
In this inspirational keynote presentation, Jonesy unpacks the lessons he’s learnt from the past 20 years of adventure and the ‘expedition mindset’ that allows the most ’normal of us’ to focus, adapt, overcome and achieve under extreme stress situations.
Justin ‘Jonesy’ Jones, Australia’s pre-eminent Explorer, keynote speaker & adventure thinker
(located in the Main Conference, Parkside 1)
Australia’s pre-eminent Explorer,
keynote speaker & adventure thinker
Australia’s pre-eminent Explorer,
keynote speaker & adventure thinker
Justin Jones – otherwise affectionately known as Jonesy, is Australia’s pre-eminent Explorer, keynote speaker, adventure thinker and storyteller.
His expeditions have taken him to the very corners of the world. From the depths of blizzards in Antarctica, to the terror of 10 metre waves towering above – in a storm at sea and the suffocating heat in the heart of the Outback. He currently holds two Guinness World Record and a place as one of Australia’s 50 Greatest Explorers of all time.
Jonesy is a passionate story teller. Over the past 18 years he has made a career of undertaking huge, epic, record setting expeditions around the world and sharing these on the stage and the screen.
A humble, charismatic and inspiring character…he is the perfect example of how determination, detailed planning and foresight can enable the most ‘normal’ of us to undertake the most extraordinary feats.
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