Course description
Guest Speakers Program for 2025, Staff Wellbeing and Inclusion. Over the next 12 months, our lineup features five inspiring guest speakers who will share their extraordinary journeys and the motivations that drive them in life.
11 September 3.30pm -4.30pm
Guest speaker: Graeme Cowan.
As a Board Director of R U OK?, Graeme has watched this simple idea lead to substantial change. In his earlier career he worked in senior leadership positions with Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and AT Kearney.
In 2000 he went through a 5-year episode of depression that his psychiatrist described as the worst he had ever treated. He emerged from this crisis with a different view about how we can increase our resilience, mood, and performance. He is described by the Australian Financial Review as a “resilience expert”
3 December 3.30pm -4.30pm
Guest speakers: Tim and Judy Sharp – Celebrating International Day of People with Disabilities.
A powerful keynote from Tim and Judy Sharp that tells the story of how a boy diagnosed with severe autism went on to become one of Australia’s best-known international artists and the creator of Laser Beak Man.
Course outcomes
Mental Health and Wellbeing / Resilience / Inclusion & Diversity