Captain Mona Shindy

Captain Mona Shindy, CSC is a retired Naval officer with over 30 years of military and business experience. Drawing upon strong academic credentials and the lessons and skills gained throughout a truly inspiring career, Captain Shindy now imparts knowledge to others as an international keynote speaker and strategic leadership and management consultant.

With degree qualifications in Engineering, Commerce (Advanced Major in Organisation and Management Studies) and Arts (Masters in Politics and Policy), Mona has been a trailblazer in male-dominated environments, consistently delivering outstanding organisational outcomes. 

Her story is one of forging new paths never before traversed, with courage, integrity, resilience and grit. Through measured risk-taking, systems thinking and reliance on strong emotional intelligence, Mona has been a highly successful, project director, change agent and organisational leader. 

She has championed significant cultural and organisational reforms relating to the adoption of innovative best practices supporting a healthy work-life balance and many initiatives promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. 

In 2015 she was recognised as the National Telstra Business Woman of the Year and was awarded a Conspicuous Service Cross in the Australia Day honours list for outstanding service as a strategic intercultural advisor.

CAPT Shindy is now a highly sought-after author, speaker and strategic business, leadership and management consultant.

Emeritus Professor Mike Daub AO

Mike Daube is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, where he was Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute. He has wide experience of CEO and senior positions in government including Director General of Health for WA and Chair of the National Public Health Partnership, and has been chair or president of many national and state government committees and non-government organisations.

He has published widely on health and public policy issues, and has advised the World Health Organization, governments and health agencies in more than forty countries.

He was Western Australian of the Year in 2018, and has received many further national and international awards.

Dr Zac Seidler

Dr. Zac Seidler is a Clinical Psychologist, the Global Director of Men's Health Research at Movember and a Senior Research Fellow with Orygen at The University of Melbourne.

Dr. Seidler has devoted several years to the goal of reducing the staggering male suicide rate, treating and researching men’s mental health with over 100 peer-reviewed articles published.

Zac has worked clinically with men of different ages and presentations from adolescents in Darwin with early psychosis to older HIV+ men struggling with adjustment. He is a member on the advisory committees for White Ribbon, Migration Council of Australia, the National Mental Health Commission and Suicide Prevention Australia.

Dr. Seidler has appeared on the ABC, BBC, Sky News and in The Guardian, The Age and Vice for his work.