Associate Professor Carlo Caponecchia is an academic at The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, and Co-Associate Dean Equity Diversity and Inclusion in the Faculty of Science UNSW. He has a background in psychology and works in Human Factors and Safety across several domains. He has particular interest and expertise in psychosocial risks and safe systems of work. Carlo is part of the International Standards Organisation Technical Committee 283 responsible for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, which developed the first international Standard on Psychosocial risks at work. Carlo Chairs the Task Group on Terminology and Clarifications for TC283. He regularly serves the court with expert testimony, and provides advice to organisations on managing safe systems of work. He is the Past President of the International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment, and current board member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA).

Jim is an experienced and passionate people leader dedicated to ensuring healthy and safe workplaces that enable people to perform at their best. With extensive experience across prevention, injury management, rehabilitation and regulation. Jim has worked within employers, rehabilitation providers and the WHS Regulator across all industry sectors. With SafeWork NSW he lead the establishment of the first Code of Practice for Managing Psychosocial Hazards at work in Australia, and was the first jurisdiction to implement the harmonised regulations for Psychosocial risks. In recent times Jim heads up the People Care Team, developing and implementing their internally focused Healthier Work, Together strategy whilst overseeing WHS/IM and employee relations functions. He has been a volunteer Director on the Heart on my sleeve Board, an advisory Board member on Healthy Heads in Trucks and Sheds, Safety Governance Foundation and his local Surf Life Saving Club.

Kate is a highly respected and well known C-Suite executive, psychologist and coach within the Australian and New Zealand workplace mental health sector. With 30+ years of experience supporting the mental health & wellbeing of individuals, teams and organisations, Kate has been advising and driving thought leadership in the workplace mental health & wellbeing space for many decades. Having started her career in the early 1990s specialising in psychological injury management, for the past 10+ years, Kate has specialised in executive and leader mental health & wellbeing, supporting leaders from critical moments of risk of self-harm, through to boosting individual performance in 1:1 coaching. Kate is passionate about the role leaders play in managing psychosocial risk, promoting healthy workplaces and “work-life” design, and driving leadership performance in defining times of career and role transition. Kate’s C-suite roles roles include serving as chief executive officer of a national employee assistance provider and as Chief Mental Health Officer at a Big 4 consulting firm. Kate is now Chief Mental Health Advisor at Elemental Coaching & Psychology where she works predominantly with the professional services sector. Kate is also host of “Judgemental Podcast – when a psychologist and a lawyer walk into a bar. A bar side chat on psychosocial risk.” Available where you subscribe to your podcasts.

Dr Laura Kirby is an Organisational Psychologist with more than 15 years' experience working with organisations across Australia and globally. Specialising in workplace psychological health and safety, Laura has designed, implemented and evaluated strategic workplace services to enhance the mental health and associated systems within organisations. Laura has consulted across a range of industries, including financial services, legal, engineering and professional services, pharmaceutical, construction and manufacturing, higher education, and public sector. A regular speaker, Laura has also collaborated with international thought leaders to develop tools and frameworks designed to refine and improve organisational approaches to psychological health and safety. Laura has held several senior and executive positions in corporate settings, focused on enhancing the strategic approach to workplace psychological health and safety, including as a Director and CEO of CommuniCorp, and Advisor to the SuperFriend Expert Advisory Committee. Most recently Laura held the inaugural Chief Mental Health Officer role for the Commonwealth Bank Australia.

Rachel Clements is the Director of Psychological Services and Principal Organisational Psychologist at the Centre for Corporate Health Pty Ltd and Resilia Pty Ltd. The Centre for Corporate Health specialises in helping individuals and organisations manage psychosocial risk, best manage mental health issues at work and reduce workplace stress. Resilia is a nationally accredited rehabilitation provider which specialises in the recovery of employees who have experienced mental health issues at work. Rachel has extensive experience working with many of Australia’s state and federal government agencies, leading law and accounting firms, banks, utility companies, media organisations and retail businesses. Rachel specialises in providing a range of psychological consulting services to staff from a variety of levels including graduates through to CEO’s and other senior business directors. Rachel specialises in consulting to staff and organisations in high performance cultures on various psychosocial risks such as psychological injury recovery, burnout, respect at work, vicarious trauma, family and domestic violence, moral injury, leadership capability, creating psychological safety, as well as boosting team and individual wellbeing. Rachel is a key presenter at national and international conferences in the area of workplace wellbeing, psychosocial risk and psychological injury. She is frequently asked for comment by media organisations to these and other topics. Rachel has a Bachelors degree in Science with Honours in Psychology from the Australian National University and a Masters degree in Organisational Psychology from the University of Western Australia. Rachel is a registered Psychologist with the NSW Psychology Board and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society and Specialist College of Organisational Psychologists. The Centre for Corporate Health (CFCH) works closely with R U OK? and for the last 13 years has sat on their think tank expert advisory committee. Rachel is also an expert on the friends of the Corporate Mental Health Alliance Association (CMHAA).

Dr Sarah Cotton (she/her) is a registered organisational psychologist and Co Founder and Co-Director of Transitioning Well (TW), a specialist psychological consultancy focused on building better workplaces. With a PhD in work stress and over 20 years’ experience, Sarah is passionate about supporting evolving workplace needs and ensuring evidence based insights translate into real world impact.