Dr Kerryn Rubin is the Clinical Director of Mental Health at Peninsula Health, an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University, and is the immediate past Chair of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry’s Victorian Branch Committee. Kerryn has over 2 decades of experience in public and private mental health services. His areas of expertise include general adult psychiatry, psychotherapy, and Trauma work. Kerryn has clinical and academic expertise in Supported Decision Making, recovery oriented services, co-production, and Trauma Informed Care. Kerryn is a passionate advocate for reducing the use of Treatment Orders, and the reduction of restrictive interventions, whilst maintaining safe and therapeutic hospital environments. In his time as Clinical Director at PH they have built on their already advanced work in reducing restrictive interventions, and have essentially eliminated the use of seclusion in their service.

Associate Professor Bridget Hamilton is Director of the Centre for Mental Health Nursing. She leads a team of clinical nurse academics and consumer academics to build up the skills and contribution of mental health nurses in Victoria, for the benefit of people receiving mental healthcare. She is a clinical academic, a registered nurse with 30 year career as a mental health specialist clinician, manager, educator and researcher in public sector services. Her program of translational research in acute, emergency and community mental health settings aims to implement and sustain evidence based interventions, including Safewards and sensory modulation. Assoc Prof Hamilton has supervised12 PhD students to completion.Together with supervisees, she contributes scholarship to maximising effective engagement and supported decision making, while building leadership and research capacity among mental health nurses and the consumer workforce. She teaches solutions-focused interventions; her research expertise spans ethnographic fieldwork in healthcare settings, knowledge translation and program evaluation, discourse analysis and narratives approaches. Across her research and teaching roles she highly values partnering with consumers

Maya has spent the past 15 years immersed in the intricacies of the healthcare sector, cultivating her expertise in human-centric design while executing strategic ventures and operations.With a background as a clinical mental health social worker across the non-profit,public, and private sectors, she was also the Director of Strategy and Operationsfor the Epworth Rehabilitation and Mental Health Division before foundingDialectical Consulting.Maya founded Dialectical Consulting to focus on her passion for exploring theinterplay between design, technology, and the human experience. Concentratingon delivering strategic solutions that are operationally aligned, Maya works tobuild innovative models of care and business ventures that aim to improve thefuture sustainability of our health ecosystem with a particular focus on improvingaccess to services for our community.Maya was awarded a spot in the Apple Foundation program at RMIT in 2024 andwas in the inaugural cohort of students to be credentialed in Artificial Intelligencefor Healthcare through the University of Sydney in 2023. She has also completedtraining through globally recognised design leaders IDEO and Stanford d.School.

Mark is a mental health professional with twenty-six years’ experience. He has fought for the recovery of those with mental illness and for systems that routinely provide for that recovery over that time. Mark commenced a Master of Philosophy degree in the field of moral theology in 2022. Mark has been a Grow member for twenty three years, a leader in Grow for sixteen years, and Chair of the Vic-Tas Branch Program Team for four years – from 2017 to 2020 and a member of the National Program Team from 2021 to 2023. Mark is a member of the four-person sub-committee of the NPT charged with leading the consultations to rewrite the Blue Book, Grow Australia’s main piece of literature. Mark is a foundation member and current chair of the Insights Mental Health Group Ballarat, 2005 to the present. Mark is also the Consumer Member of the Grampians Region Interim Regional Body created by the 2020 Victorian Royal Commission into Mental Health. Mark brings to Grow his experience in facilitating recovery; in reforming systems so that they promote recovery; skills in IT management, financial and legislative compliance & leadership/management; and a passion for the rights of Australia’s indigenous people

Hediyeh is the CEO and Co-Founder of Linéaire Projects. She has over 25 years of experience in the health sector, nationally across public and private. Her career trajectory is marked by roles across departmental, facility, district, and state health tiers, reflecting a blend of strategic acumen and operational excellence. Hediyeh leads an organisation delivering multifaceted services spanning policy development, strategic and service planning, infrastructure design and delivery, digital transformation, and project management, with a pronounced emphasis on the health sector. As a Board Director of Karitane, practicing senior clinician and an academic affiliated with both the University of Sydney and University of NSW, Hediyeh exemplifies her unwavering commitment to contemporary clinical practice, academic rigor, and research-driven service delivery. Hediyeh has been instrumental in the development and successful implementation of cornerstone health projects in Australia. Her influence extends to various health advisory roles, and she has spearheaded several transformative initiatives. The numerous accolades she has received, and her tenures marks her commitment to integrating strategic vision with on-ground execution to ensure elevation of health standards at both micro and macro levels