17 & 18 JULY 2024 - THE SHARKS EVENT CENTRE, GOLD COAST
2024 Conference Speakers
Dr Jodi Richardson
Nurture Your Nervous System and Navigate Off the Road to Burnout
The road to burnout has tell-tale signs along the way that indicate burnout could be around the corner. In this interactive and engaging workshop attendees gain an understanding of their nervous system, learn how stress uniquely affects them, identify where they are on the road to burnout and practice impactful, practical strategies to effectively manage the overwhelm that frequently accompanies the rewards of caring for others.
Bio: Dr. Jodi Richardson is one of Australia's thought leaders in managing stress and anxiety, and amplifying well-being. She supports parents, teachers, and other professionals to understand stress, anxiety, overwhelm and burnout; and to implement practical changes to help them thrive, even in the midst of what feels like chaos.
Jodi is an international speaker, best-selling author of "Anxious Kids" and "Anxious Mums", a well-being science consultant, creator and host of the award-winning podcast "Well, Hello Anxiety", and a respected media commentator.
Academically accomplished, professionally experienced, and intrinsically compassionate, she has appeared on The TODAY Show, ABC Breakfast, Studio 10, Sunrise, The Age, Weekend Today, and more.
Contact Details:
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jodi-richardson-15589240
Instagram: @drjodirichardson
Website: https://drjodirichardson.com
Amanda Thompson
Money CAN Make You Happy
Welcome to "Money CAN Make You Happy", a presentation designed to transform your perspective on finances and unveil the happiness potential money holds. Led by the renowned financial expert, Amanda Thompson, this session is not just about dollars and cents; it's about discovering the profound connection between your personal goals, values, and the path to financial joy.
Key Benefits:
True Financial Fulfilment: Experience a profound sense of fulfilment as you align your financial choices with your personal values, creating a meaningful and purpose-driven financial life.
Overcoming Personal Fears: Learn strategies to confront and overcome personal fears related to money, fostering a positive and empowering relationship with your financial decisions.
Reduced Financial Stress: By adopting a holistic money mindset and implementing informed financial strategies, you'll significantly reduce stress related to money matters, leading to a more relaxed and content life.
Audience Takeaways:
A New Perspective on Money: Leave with a refreshed understanding of money as a source of happiness and fulfilment, not just a means of transaction.
Practical Strategies for Happiness: Receive actionable strategies to immediately implement in your financial life, promoting happiness and satisfaction.
Inspiration for Personal Growth: Feel inspired to align your financial journey with your personal growth, recognising the role money plays in your broader life story.
Confidence in Financial Decision-Making: Gain confidence in making financial decisions that resonate with your values, ensuring that each choice brings you closer to a financially satisfying and happy life.
Bio: Amanda Thompson is an award-winning financial planner, author, Ironwoman and the Founder and Director of Endurance Financial. Amanda draws on her 20 years of financial advising and life experiences to educate and mentor in a relaxed and relatable way to support you to overcome the fear of finances and own your financial future.
Amanda renews personal and business confidence by providing the financial knowledge and confidence to have a great relationship with money allowing you to become your own CFO (Confident, Focussed & On top of your Finances). Endurance Financial is particularly driven to overcome the gender biases that stand in the way of personal achievement; lessons learned after thriving in typically male dominated environments.
Contact Details:
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/amandathompsonfp
Instagram: @endurancefinancial
Facebook: www.facebook.com/amanda.thompson.568847
Website: https://endurancefinancial.com.au
Natashia Telfer
Fighting The Good Fight
Bio: Natashia is a Canberra based mum, wife, sister, daughter, friend, and businesswoman. She also considers herself a survivor, juggler and perpetual ball dropper, chaos coordinator and silver lining seeker. She has worked within the Healthcare sector for 18 years in a variety of roles including Aged Care, Disability, Acquired Brain Injury, and now co-founder and director of National Community Care in Canberra. Natashia’s compassion and driving force within the industry begun when she was faced with adversity at the age of 18 when she was diagnosed with stage 4B cancer. Despite the odds, Natashia rose above it, pivoting the trajectory of her life and her purpose.
Today, Natashia is committed to ensuring her team provides the benchmark service to be rivalled with, believing the current standard is not good enough. Natashia believes every human deserves the right to access quality care in a way that meets their needs. National Community Care advocates and fights the fight for those most vulnerable, those that go unheard, for all the round pegs, the too hard baskets, the forgotten ones. Natashia is not afraid of standing up and speaking out against unjust causes. She is a disruptor fighting for systemic change, endeavouring to improve the system to benefit those most vulnerable.
Contact Details:
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/nationalcommunitycareptyltd/mycompany
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDENwc89SxA
Facebook: www.facebook.com/nationalcommunitycare
Website: www.nationalcommunitycare.com.au www.nationalhealthcare.com.au
Paula Maidens
Strategic Hiring to support real business growth (& profit!)
Bio: Paula helps fast-growing entrepreneurs build high-performing teams so they can scale with ease, get their time back and create the life they damn well deserve! She's been a business consultant for 13+ years and uses her signature 6 Pillar Framework to shift the perception that hiring, leadership, and stepping up as an empowered CEO needs to feel hard.
She has a straight-talking reputation and uses her simple systems and tools to support you to look within, to find a way that feels authentic and amazing, and to build your dream team (to support your dream life!). As an entrepreneur herself, Paula shares her own business & life lessons as well as the hands-on experience she has from interviewing and hiring thousands of people for her clients. She’s also a proud mum to 2 beautiful boys, a very happy wife, a passionate yogi and an avid traveller.
Contact Details:
Website: https://paulamaidens.com
Instagram: @paulamaidensconsulting
Facebook: www.facebook.com/paulamaidensbuildingawesometeams
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/paulamaidens
Listen & subscribe to the Big Dreams Great Teams™ podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/big-dreams-great-teams/id1592202886
Clare Wood
Bust those limiting beliefs around money and add some zeros to that bank balance.
Bio: Clare Wood is a money mentor, author, speaker and podcaster.
Clare is also a gym junkie, a drinker of wine, a passionate traveller, a wrangler of 2 young boys, a manifestor, a numbers nerd and a reality TV addict who lives in her waterfront home by the beach.
She’s a qualified accountant (a CPA), but she’s not your average bean counter… she uses her money-making mentoring powers for good. Clare helps service-based businesses to scale, while creating a lifestyle they love. Clare Wood runs The Profit Academy, an online school created to help business owners increase their profits exponentially.
Clare uses proven and practical money management principles combined with powerful mindset work to support her clients to make more money. She believes everyone has ‘money stories’ that limit their ability to earn more. And that when you transform your relationship with money, you can rapidly increase the amount of profit that you earn, so that you can create a life of financial freedom and fun.
Contact Details:
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/clarewoodcoach
Instagram: @clare_wood_coach
Facebook: www.facebook.com/clarewoodcoach
Website: https://clarewood.com
Podcast: https://clarewood.com/podcast
Intentional Profit Book: https://clarewood.com/intentionalprofit
Lisa Walker
Fighting The Good Fight
Bio: International Award Winner and speaker Lisa Walker FCPA of National Nursing Agency Pty Ltd is a disruptor, a game changer, and a bit extra, and she likes to think outside the box, recognise opportunities and grab them. A CPA-qualified Accountant, she’s had a varied career in many sectors, including Government, Accounting, and Retail, and now, with five businesses in both the Healthcare and Agriculture industries, she still doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up!
Contact Details:
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/nationalcommunitycareptyltd/mycompany
Instagram: @lisawalkerfcpa
Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDENwc89SxA
Facebook: www.facebook.com/nationalcommunitycare
Website: www.nationalcommunitycare.com.au www.nationalhealthcare.com.au
Justine Martin
The MOXIE Effect: My Journey of Resilience
In "The MOXIE Effect: My Journey of Resilience," Justine Martin shares a riveting narrative of triumph over adversity that resonates deeply with audiences. Having confronted multiple health challenges, including a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis and three cancer battles, Justine's journey from a bleak medical prognosis to now running seven businesses, exemplifies the transformative power of resilience and a positive mindset. Her keynote presentation at the 'Heart of Health & Disability Conference' promises to inspire and empower attendees as they glean insights from her remarkable journey. Through poignant storytelling and actionable strategies, Justine imparts invaluable lessons on resilience, determination and the unwavering belief in the human spirit's capacity to overcome even the greatest of challenges.
The MOXIE Effect … the transformative power of resilience and determination in one's personal journey of overcoming adversity.
Bio: Justine Martin, founder and CEO of Justine Martin Corporation (JMC), is a dynamic entrepreneur, award-winning artist, resilience coach, keynote speaker, author, and podcast host. Under her visionary leadership, JMC has grown into a conglomerate comprising seven successful enterprises: Juzt art, Resilience Mindset, Van-Go Decals, Morpheus Publishing, Justine Martin Speaker, Team Fingerprint, and Geelong Residential Cleaning and Gardening. Overcoming formidable health challenges, including Multiple Sclerosis and multiple heart surgeries and cancers, Justine defied medical predictions and transitioned into entrepreneurship. Her resilience and determination have inspired others, leading to a flourishing art empire and the creation of Resilience Mindset, dedicated to coaching, podcasting and delivering impactful speeches. Justine expanded JMC with Morpheus Publishing, producing bestselling books like "Whispers of Resilience." She champions NDIS support through five JMC businesses, advocating for disability rights. Internationally acclaimed, Justine has delivered compelling keynote speeches and received numerous awards, including 'Coach of the Year' and 'Artist of the Year.' Recognised as 'Business Leader of the Year 2023' at the Geelong Business Excellence Awards, Justine continues to make a significant impact in the business world.
Contact Details:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinemartinresilience-consultant/
Instagram: @justinemartinspeaker
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/justinemartinspeaker
Website: www.justinemartin.com.au
Natasha Ace
Empowering Health and Disability: Leveraging AI for Personalised Care and Inclusive Solutions
In this session, we will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising healthcare and disability support systems, leading to more personalised care and inclusive solutions. From early diagnosis and treatment planning to adaptive technologies and accessibility enhancements, AI is playing a pivotal role in transforming the accessibility to all folks. Through real-world examples and case studies, we will delve into the potential of AI to empower individuals, improve quality of life, and foster greater inclusivity within healthcare and disability support frameworks. Join us as we navigate the intersection of AI, health, and disability to envision a future where technology serves as a catalyst for positive change and equitable access to care.
Bio: Natasha Ace holds an MBA and 20 years of experience as a business strategist for health practices. Her experience expands internationally as she started her career in the United States before migrating to Australia in 2011. Natasha empowers practices to break the cycle of constantly checking their bank accounts and freaking out about day to day operations by teaching owners and management team members ways to minimise the unknown in owning their businesses. As a neurodivergent human with ADHD, her brain is exceptional at establishing operating processes and protocols for a wide range of businesses on an international level. You can run a profitable health practice without sacrificing the health and wellbeing of the humans contributing to that space.
Contact Details:
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/natashaace
Instagram: @private_practice_alliance
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/privatepracticealliance
Website: www.privatepracticealliance.com
Helen Whait
The Anti-Burnout Healthcare CEO: Building and leading a burnout-free allied health team
When did we accept burnout as the norm in healthcare and allied health? What if, instead of treating it, we prevented it? In this keynote, Helen Whait, the founder of ActivOT, Australia's first occupational therapy (OT) franchise with more than 60 franchisees around Australia, will take you behind the scenes on her journey to build and lead a burnout-free allied health business where the wellbeing of caregivers is as valued as the health of patients. From helping OTs become business owners within a win-win-win franchise model, to building a genuine support system and structure for OTs, implementing holistic business planning which focuses on the OTs life as much as their career, and building a culture and structure which most people think 'must be good to be true’ but is indeed achievable’, Helen’s keynote promises a paradigm shift in healthcare culture and will leave you inspired and energised to create change.
Bio: For more than a decade, Helen Whait has been a powerful contributor and change-maker within and for her profession. As the founder of Australia’s first occupational therapy franchise business ActivOT, she's helped more than 60 allied health practitioners Australia-wide build incredible businesses that provide life-changing services without sacrificing their well-being.
Guided by her values and vision, Helen has continued to build her thriving business, creating a unique healthcare service model that is vastly different from the way it’s always been done.
Helen has proven that as a mother and a woman, you can have it all – that you can put your family, your health and yourself first and still have a career. As a result, she has fostered a culture within her business where like-minded allied health professionals can share resources and feel supported and empowered.
Contact Details:
Linkedin:www.linkedin.com/in/helen-whait
Instagram: @helen.whait
Facebook: www.facebook.com/helenwhaitactivot
Website: www.activot.com.au
