As a Master Mental Health First Aid Instructor, I specialise in facilitating standard MHFA and am available to train small and large workplaces in both cooperative and community-based settings.

I am also adept at designing and delivering bespoke and tailored educational solutions, including stress management, emotional intelligence, and mental health literacy, for organisations and teams.

I have extensive experience in leading high-performing executive-level teams and use this experience to offer training for managers and teams to perform at their optimum levels.

Co-design of services is now seen as the gold standard in designing services that are fit for purpose and involve the voices and perspectives of the stakeholders and communities that require them.

Having led PHN and NGO approaches towards prosperous co-design across multiple regions and in leading national approaches that informed the Dept of Health.

I have honed a skill set that can create space to hear from all individuals and produce activities that illicit the most crucial information that communities, individuals and funding bodies need to design and commission services that genuinely make a difference.

Services here could include:

-Expert Facilitation

-Team and Executive Strategy sessions

-Work with Executives, managers, Team Leaders and team members to work towards co-design aims.

-High-quality reports that help organisations gain takeaways from co-design sessions.

As a highly accomplished people leader who has led large multidisciplinary teams, as part of the executive of a PHN and has led collegiate approaches at a national level, I am equipped with the skills and knowledge to develop high-performing teams and individuals to achieve their optimum within their roles. This includes:

Tailored team and staff mentoring

Leadership coaching for new and emerging managers and senior staff

Team building and planning days (helping managers to set the strategy to achieve the best outcomes on the day)

Tailored education and resources are available on demand. They would be developed in conjunction with the organisation and are always evidenced-based, and experiential. and designed to support a wide range of individual and team learning needs. Some examples include:

Mental Health Literacy Training

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Emotional Intelligence

Carer MH courses

Self Care

AOD courses

Change Management

High performing teams and leaders

The Mental Health, health, disability and social services sectors can be challenging to navigate, even for those with significant experience . This course helps new or new staff to the sector not only find their way through the service system maze but also become experts in navigation, coordination, and service linkage.

With vast experience in facilitating large regional events and symposiums, team building days, strategic planning events, guest speaking roles, Crucial Cognition Consulting are a leader in expert level facilitation.

Services include:

• Large and small event facilitation, including event planning, work with manager and team, on the day facilitation, debrief and recommendations.

• Team building and team planning days.

• Facilitation of PHN, LHD, Dept of Health and other regional, state and national events

With decades of experience in both the preparation of successful tenders and also through designing and commissioning regional mental health services, the following services are offered:

Tender preparation:

- Including regular meetings, expertise on how to best position the service or project for success, securing potential partners.