Dr Tracy Westerman AM is a proud Nyamal woman from the Pilbara region of Western Australia and a trailblazer in Aboriginal mental health, suicide prevention and cultural competency.

In 2003, she became the first Aboriginal person to complete a combined Masters & PhD in Clinical Psychology. Since then she has self funded the development of multiple unique psychometric tests, mental health and suicide intervention programs, cultural competency programs.

Rising from disadvantage, in which she had to undertake most of her tertiary entrance subjects via distance education; she is now a multi award winning psychologist. She has long been considered a critical thought leader in this highly complex field and is regularly sought out by all forms of media for her opinions on a range of complex topics such as suicide prevention, trauma, raise the age, incarceration rates; child protection.

In 2019, she funded the Dr Tracy Westerman Indigenous Psychology Scholarship Program to increase the number of Indigenous Psychologists in our highest risk communities in response to the unacceptable rates of Indigenous child suicides. In 2020, she founded her charity, The Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health, and has raised over $19 million in funding and contributed approximately 20,000 volunteer hours as an unsalaried Founder and Chair of the charity. She released her memoir, Jilya in late 2024 and it quickly became a best seller and award winner.

Professor Narelle Lemon is an internationally recognised scholar, author and thought leader whose work is changing the conversation from managing wellbeing to creating the conditions in which wellbeing can be lived.

A Professor of Education and Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, Narelle works at the intersection of wellbeing, education, creativity and human flourishing. Her research challenges individualised, reactive and commercialised approaches to wellbeing, instead exploring how wellbeing can become an everyday literacy: something people can understand, communicate, practise and collectively sustain.

Her work spans wellbeing literacy, self-care, belonging, time, creativity, collective thriving and cultures of care, connecting personal agency with the relationships, workplaces, communities and systems that shape how people live and work.

Alongside her university leadership and research, Narelle is the founder of her independent practice, Dr Narelle Lemon, where she translates research into accessible ideas, conversations, resources and experiences for individuals, educators, leaders and organisations internationally, across everyday life, professional practice and organisational culture.

At the heart of her work is a powerful proposition: wellbeing should not begin when something goes wrong. We can learn to notice, tend, care and intentionally create conditions that enable people and communities to flourish.