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Alana Marsh
Regenerative Practitioner
Alok V Menon
Performance Artist and Author
André Eikmeier
CEO, The Good Empire
Andrew Tagg
Emergency Physician,
Ari Horton
Consultant paediatric cardiologist, Melbourne Heart Care
Ariella Helfgott
Senior Researcher
Brett Sutton
Doctor, Chief Health Officer, Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria
Brigid Russell
Coach/Facilitator, #SpaceForListening
Bronwyn Carlson
Academic
Bryce Ives
VP Public Affairs and Comms, Torrens Global University
Catherine Whitington
Health and Community Services Complaints Commissioner, Office for the Health and Community Services Complaints Commissioner
Céline Schillinger
Founder and CEO, We Need Social
Cessalee Stoval
Actor, and Intimacy Director for film, Stage A Change
Charlie Jones
Clinical Psychology Lead, Southmead Hospital, NHS
Chris Godwin
Founder and Creative Director, Inner Eye Productions.
Claire Cunnington
Researcher & Filmmaker, University of Sheffield
Claire Wathen
University of Oxford Fellow
Craig Foster AM
Former Socceroo and Human Rights Activist
David Plunkett
Cheif Executive, Eastern Health
Debbie Ling
Academic, Monash University
Dr James Doty
Director, CCARE
Dr Robin Youngson
Physician and anaesthetic specialist, Hearts in Healthcare
Eleanor Blythman
Opera Singer, Opera Australia
Elijah Money
Artist
Erwin Loh
Chief Medical Officer and Group General Manager Clinical Governance, St Vincent’s Health Australia
Fiona Kerr
Founder, NeuroTech Institute
Gill Hicks AM MBE
Social Entrepreneur, Artist
Gregory Lorenzutti
Artist, Photographer and Food Grower
Gregory Philips
Executive Officer and Medical anthropologist, ABSTARR
Haben Girma
Disability Rights Lawyer
Heather Came
Activist Scholar, Auckland University of Technology
Helen Sanderson
Founder, Helen Sanderson Associates
Hew Parham
Actor, Writer and Clown
Ian Summers
Emergency Physician, Medical Educator and Director, Monash Health
Jane Munro
Paediatric Rheumatologist, Royal Children's Hospital
Jane Sloan
Senior Director of Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality, The Asia Foundation
Jarrard O’Brien
Chief Experience Officer (CXO), Alfred Health
Jeremy Forbes
Co-founder and Spokesperson, HALT - Hope Assistance Local Tradies
Julian Abel
Palliative Care Consultant, Author and Podcaster
KA McKercher
Co-design Facilitator, Trainer and Supervisor
Karina Kallio
Regnerative Design Practitioner
Kate Bowles
Narrative Researcher and Patient Advocate
Katerina Bryant
Writer
Kerrie Noonan
Death Literacy & Compassionate Communities Practitioner and Researcher, Death Literacy Institute, Macquarie Health Collective
Kim Koop AM
Coach and Facilitator
Kin Francis
Independent Artist
Kirsty Stark
CEO, Epic Films
Komal Bajaj
Chief Quality Officer, NYC Health in the Bronx
Lauren R. Powell
President & CEO, The Equitist
Lekshmy Parameswaran
Louisa Hope
Patient, Survivor
Louise McKinlay
Senior Executive Director, System Improvement Group in Commissioning and System Improvement
Lucy Mayes
Author and Facilitator
Lyn Morgain
CEO, Oxfam Australia
Mama Alto
Jazz Singer and Gender Transcendent Diva
Marie Bismark
Medical practitioner, Health law academic, Law and Public Health Group, University of Melbourne
Mark Crosweller AFSM
Head of the National Resilience Taskforce, Department of Home Affairs, Australian Government
Mary Freer
Director, Compassion Revolution
Matiu Bush
Nurse Practitioner and Designer
Micaela Cronin
CEO, Future Social Service Institute
Michael West CBE
Senior Fellow and Professor, The King's Fund and Lancaster University
Mickey Kumatpi O’Brien
Cultural Advisor
Miss Cairo
Singer, Dancer, Actress and Activist
Nartarsha Bamblett
Nathan Madigan
Photographer, Writer and Trainer
Nathan Scolaro
Writer, Editor and Storyteller
Neil Cunningham
Emergency Physician, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Nevo Zisin
Jewish writer, performer, activist and public speaker
Padmini Pai
Program Manager, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District
Peter Shepherd
Coach, Human Periscope
Rachel Callander
Speaker, Trainer and Artist
Renee Farrow
Sustainability and strategy consultant, ReWonder CoLab
Rona Glynn-McDonald
CEO and Founder, Common Ground
Rosemary Dillon
Violet Guide, The Violet Initiative
Rosie Thomas, OAM
CEO and Co-Founder, Project Rockit
Ruby Allegra
Artist
Ruth De Souza
Speaker, Writer, Researcher, RMIT
Sabin Fernbacher
Consultant and Mentor
Sabina Vitacca
Founder, Meditate Now
Safdar Ahmed
Artist, Musician and Academic, Refugee Art Project
Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn
Authors and Podcast Founders, Good Mourning
Sará King
Neuroscientist and Entrepreneur
Sarah Gun
CEO, GOGO Foundation
Selma Quist-Møller
Psychologist and Researcher
Seth Godin
Author, Entrepreneur and most of all, a Teacher
Shannon Harvey
Director, Author
Shannon Weber
Facilitator and Coach
Shelley Bowen
CEO, Health Futures Australia
Simon Terry
CEO, HiCAPS
Tess Moeke-Maxwell
Māori end-of-life carer
Tony Fernando
Psychiatrist, University of Auckland
Tony Walker ASM
Chief Executive Officer, Ambulance Victoria.
Trish Hansen
Founding Principal, Urban Mind Studios
Troye Wallett
GP, Mentor and Entrepreneur
Venerable Tenzin Chödrön
Buddhist nun
