Conference speakers

It’s the people we invite to speak at the Compassion Revolution Conference that’s the reason why this conference is so outstanding. We gather leaders who are world renowned in their practice and embody the courage to defy the status quo.

Alana Marsh

Regenerative Practitioner
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Alok V Menon

Performance Artist and Author
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André Eikmeier

CEO, The Good Empire
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Andrew Tagg

Emergency Physician & Co-founder, Don’t Forget The Bubbles
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Ari Horton

Consultant paediatric cardiologist, Melbourne Heart Care
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Ariella Helfgott

Senior Researcher
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Brett Sutton

Doctor, Chief Health Officer, Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria
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Bronwyn Carlson

Academic, Macquarie University
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Bryce Ives

VP Public Affairs and Comms, Torrens Global University
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Catherine Whitington

Catherine Whitington

Health and Community Services Complaints Commissioner, Office for the Health and Community Services Complaints Commissioner
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Céline Schillinger

Founder and CEO, We Need Social
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Chris Godwin

Founder and Creative Director, Inner Eye Productions.
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Claire Cunnington

Researcher & Filmmaker, University of Sheffield
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Craig Foster AM

Former Socceroo and Human Rights Activist
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David Plunkett

Cheif Executive, Eastern Health
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Debbie Ling

Academic, Monash University
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Dr James Doty

Director, CCARE
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Dr Robin Youngson

Physician and anaesthetic specialist, Hearts in Healthcare
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Eleanor Blythman

Opera Singer, Opera Australia
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Elijah Money

Artist
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Erwin Loh

Chief Medical Officer and Group General Manager Clinical Governance, St Vincent’s Health Australia
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Fiona Kerr

Founder, NeuroTech Institute
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Gill Hicks AM MBE

Social Entrepreneur, Artist
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Gregory Philips

Executive Officer and Medical anthropologist, ABSTARR
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Haben Girma

Disability Rights Lawyer
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Heather Came

Activist Scholar, Auckland University of Technology
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Helen Sanderson

Founder, Helen Sanderson Associates
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Ian Summers

Emergency Physician, Medical Educator and Director, Monash Health
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Jane Munro

Paediatric Rheumatologist, Royal Children's Hospital
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Jane Sloan

Senior Director of Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality, The Asia Foundation
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Jarrard O’Brien

Chief Experience Officer (CXO), Alfred Health
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Jeremy Forbes

Co-founder and Spokesperson, HALT - Hope Assistance Local Tradies
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Julian Abel

Palliative Care Consultant, Author and Podcaster
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Karina Kallio

Regnerative Design Practitioner
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Kate Bowles

Assoc Dean, International Studies, University of Wollongong
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Katerina Bryant

Writer
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Kerrie Noonan

Death Literacy & Compassionate Communities Practitioner and Researcher, Death Literacy Institute, Macquarie Health Collective
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Kim Koop AM

Coach and Facilitator
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Kin Francis

Independent Artist
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Kirsty Stark

CEO, Epic Films
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Komal Bajaj

Chief Quality Officer, NYC Health in the Bronx
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Lauren R. Powell

President & CEO, The Equitist
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Louisa Hope

Patient, Survivor
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Louise McKinlay

Senior Executive Director, System Improvement Group in Commissioning and System Improvement
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Lucy Mayes

Author and Facilitator
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Lyn Morgain

CEO, Oxfam Australia
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Marie Bismark

Medical practitioner, Health law academic, Law and Public Health Group, University of Melbourne
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Mark Crosweller AFSM

Head of the National Resilience Taskforce, Department of Home Affairs, Australian Government
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Mary Freer

Director, Compassion Revolution
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Matiu Bush

Nurse Practitioner and Designer
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Micaela Cronin

CEO, Future Social Service Institute
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Michael West CBE

Senior Fellow and Professor, The King's Fund and Lancaster University
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Mickey Kumatpi O’Brien

Cultural Advisor
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Miss Cairo

Singer, Dancer, Actress and Activist
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Nathan

Nathan Madigan

Photographer, Writer and Trainer
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Neil Cunningham

Emergency Physician, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
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Nevo Zisin

Jewish writer, performer, activist and public speaker
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Padmini Pai

Program Manager, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District
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Peter Shepherd

Coach, Human Periscope
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Rachel Callander

Speaker, Trainer and Artist
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Renee Farrow

Sustainability and strategy consultant, ReWonder CoLab
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Rona Glynn-McDonald

CEO and Founder, Common Ground
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Rosemary Dillon

Violet Guide, The Violet Initiative
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Rosie Thomas, OAM

CEO and Co-Founder, Project Rockit
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Ruby Allegra

Artist
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Ruth De Souza

Speaker, Writer, Researcher, RMIT
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Sabin Fernbacher

Consultant and Mentor
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Sabina Vitacca

Founder, Meditate Now
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Safdar Ahmed

Artist, Musician and Academic, Refugee Art Project
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Sará King

Neuroscientist, Political and learning scientist, Medical anthropologist
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Sarah Gun

CEO, GOGO Foundation
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Seth Godin

Author, Entrepreneur and most of all, a Teacher
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Shannon Harvey

Director, Author
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Shannon Weber

Writer, Artist and Facilitator, Show Up Hard
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Shelley Bowen

CEO, Health Futures Australia
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Simon Terry

CEO, HiCAPS
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Tess Moeke-Maxwell

Māori end-of-life carer
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Tony Fernando

Psychiatrist, University of Auckland
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Tony Walker ASM

Chief Executive Officer, Ambulance Victoria.
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Trish Hansen

Founding Principal, Urban Mind Studio
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Troye Wallett

GP, Mentor and Entrepreneur
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Venerable Tenzin Chödrön

Buddhist nun
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