Dave Burroughs has been working internationally in the areas of Workplace Mental Health and Psychological Health & Safety for over 17 years.

Dave collaborates internationally with leading researchers and practitioners across workplace culture, psychosocial risk management, job design, and integrated approaches to psychosocial safety.

Dave is a vocal advocate for evidence-based practice and has a reputation for challenging the status quo and innovative approaches to complex people matters.

Outside of Westpac, Dave is the Founder of Australian Psychological Services, and a specialist advisor leading organisations internationally in psychosocial safety, job design and workplace mental health.

Shruti has been with Unilever ANZ for 10 years, taking the reigns as Head of HR for Australia and New Zealand in 2023 and in 2025, she took on the additional responsibility for the APAC cluster.

Shruti loves partnering with teams to help drive their strategic business agenda, redefining work, unlocking performance and productivity while also helping organisations build an inclusive culture where everyone belongs. This is deep rooted in her purpose to “Create Belonging for myself and others” by living her values of positivity, curiosity & connections. Some of Shruti’s key achievements at Unilever include landing organization transformations, driving a change agenda, spearheading progressive policy changes like Gender affirmation leave, leave for pregnancy loss & fertility treatments while experimenting with new flexible working models.

Shruti has 20+ years of HR experience, in both developing and developed markets, across a variety of roles including Organization Transformation, Change Management, Learning, Talent Management, Wellbeing, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) and HR Business partnering.

On a personal front, Shruti gets her energy from spending time with her husband and daughter, reading, doing yoga, and staying connected with friends and family all over the world!

Mason Gismondi is the Head of Culture & Psychosocial Safety at Bupa, where he focuses on how culture is shaped by the way work is designed, led and prioritised. His work brings together culture, leadership behaviour and psychosocial risk, treating them not as separate agendas but as part of the same system.

Mason led the development of the Bupa Psychosocial Health Check, which helps teams understand how everyday work pressures, expectations and leadership practices affect people, and where change is needed.

With a background in psychology and operational leadership, he works closely with executive teams to move culture and psychosocial safety out of policy and into practice—embedding them into how decisions are made, work is delivered, and accountability is held across the business.

Dr Natalie Flatt leads Superfriend’s product innovation and clinical strategy, translating leading research into data-driven, industry-specific solutions across the five-domain framework to strengthen workplace mental health and performance. She designs targeted approaches for different industries, ensuring insights are aligned to each sector’s unique psychosocial risk profile, job design, regulatory context and cultural drivers.

She also leads Superfriend’s advisory function, guiding organisations to interpret their data, prioritise action and embed practical, system-level change that delivers measurable outcomes. In parallel, she drives the organisation’s technology innovation, enabling scalable, insight-led action and more precise, real-time responses to emerging workforce needs.

Recognised for her ability to bridge science and practice, Natalie champions a data-informed, practical “how-to” methodology that moves organisations beyond awareness to behaviour change and sustainable cultural transformation. Through thought leadership, strategic partnerships and product innovation, she continues to shape the national conversation on thriving, mentally healthy, high-performing workplaces.

Rebecca Moulynox is the General Manager of Great Place To Work ANZ, with over two decades of leadership experience in people and culture she helps organisations build high-performing, trust-based workplaces where employees thrive and businesses succeed. Recognised as a leading authority on workplace culture across Australia and New Zealand, Rebecca combines strategic insight and practical expertise to transform the way people experience work.

Ben is Group General Manager, Human Resources at Mirvac, an ASX top 50 property company. Ben is proud to be leading a progressive, pragmatic and commercially-focused HR team that in many ways is setting industry benchmarks for culture, flexibility, diversity & inclusion, and employee experience. Ben has driven the creation of Mirvac’s ‘Join Grow Belong’ people strategy; played a key role in large-scale organisational change (including complex M&A); resetting Mirvac’s approach to performance, remuneration, talent management and belonging; transformation of Mirvac’s HR operations and technology (including experimenting and leveraging new technologies such as robotics); and embracing HR data and analytics.

During Ben’s tenure at Mirvac, Mirvac has maintained consistently high levels of employee engagement, has been recognised as the Best Place to Work by AFR Boss, rated the #1 organisation in the world for gender equality by Equileap, and the inaugural winner of the 100% Human at Work award by Virgin Unite and CEO Magazine.

Ben has enjoyed a less conventional pathway to the Head of HR role, starting his career as a Chartered Accountant and working as a lawyer and management consultant before joining the HR profession. Prior to Mirvac, Ben’s roles included consulting at PwC and Deloitte, leading a consulting practice for Hay Group (now Korn Ferry), and a global HR role at Lendlease.

In addition to his professional experience, Ben is an experienced lecturer to MBA and law students; a published author; and has been Chair of a number of industry groups, on the Boards of various not-for-profits, and a contributor to various philanthropic initiatives.

Geri Sumpter is the General Manager of Beyond Blue at Work. Beyond Blue works with the community to improve mental health and make it easier for people to feel better earlier, get well and stay well.

Geri has had an extensive career in public health, health promotion, and workplace health, safety and wellbeing. She champions whole-setting approaches to improve health outcomes, with a strong focus on strategic leadership, system level change, stakeholder engagement and impact measurement.

She has a passion for helping individuals and communities achieve their best possible mental health.

Kathryn presents with over 25 years’ experience working with a broad range of industries, advocating for and leading change, through positive frameworks, compassionate consultation and strategic planning for an improved future. An inspiring speaker, she works with individuals through to entire organisations utilising positive assessment tools, established frameworks and a solution focus. Chair of Wellbeing Australia and leading Youth Motivational Maps for Australia, she is a highly regarded locally and globally as a thought leader in her field. Awarded Top Educator of the Year in 2025, an Honorary Fellowship from the Teachers Guild and a Career Management Fellowship from ICCI, Kathryn’s is recognised as a changemaker in the global wellbeing and careers landscape.

Her insights into the cross functional matrix of opportunities from education to industry is unique. People centric, she fosters collaboration through understanding of the interlace between wellbeing, career planning and professional development and leadership personally and publicly. Working with all school sectors from K to 12, tertiary institutions and industry, Kathryn has a commitment to learning that is founded in self-awareness and results in purposeful and timely actions. Her work in schools encompasses executives, staff, students and families, in addition to governing and network organisations.

Margo is the Co-Establishment Lead of Mentally Healthy Workplaces Australia and is the independent Chair of the National Mental Health Commission’s Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance - an Alliance of national organisations from the business, union, community, and government sectors leading change to promote and create mentally healthy workplaces. A four-year strategic project, heavily involving the Alliance has been the development of the National Workplace Initiative - a nationally consistent approach to workplace mental health and wellbeing to benefit every Australian business, all workers and strengthen our communities.

Margo is an Honorary Fellow within the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Margo is also a non-executive director on the Shared Value Project Australia Board. Shared Value is a business strategy, developed by Harvard Business School, that solves social issues, profitably.

Margo is currently a Sector Advisor for Corporate Mental Health Alliance Australia and also for Roses in the Ocean – Australia’s peak organisation empowering people with a lived experience of Suicide to share their voice and bring their unique insights and wisdom to prevent suicide.

Until recently, Margo was CEO for SuperFriend; a position she held for 12 years successfully leading the growth from start-up to a national organisation at the forefront of workplace mental health and wellbeing in Australia. Prior, she was an executive leader for 10-years at the Oak House – Australia’s largest private outpatient facility treating people with eating disorders.

Margo holds a Master of Science, Positive Organization Development and Change, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, and a Bachelor of Business Degree from the University of Queensland. Margo was a finalist in the 2019 Telstra Business Women’s Awards (Victoria) in the “For Purpose and Social Enterprise” category.

Kim is a healthcare professional with over 20 years experience working in healthcare, initially as a pharmacist in clinical service delivery, and then in academic clinical research, health technology assessment, health economics and patient outcomes research. Over the last few years Kim has worked in the corporate environment, with a focus on healthcare strategy and implementation delivering multiple large projects in complex stakeholder environments in the areas of health and life sciences working with government, Industry and not for profit. Kim holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons I) and has a PhD. She lives in Sydney with her husband and teenage son and shares her home with dog Meisie and cat Murphy.