Optus Stadium
8-9 October 2025
8-9 October 2025
Our professionally acclaimed speakers will inspire and guide you through critical and delights topics to help ensure your organisation real-world challenges are addressed professionally and sensitively.
Our guest speaker have deeply considered the sensitivities of the Western Australian community, to return you to work, ready to implement new learnings, enhance your workplace and create greater opportunities to respond to the needs of your community.
Together we can support our local communities by Caring through Connection.
Dr Bruce Robinson is physician and multi-award winning cancer researcher who has also published several best selling books on fathering plus a new book on suffering, which was short listed for the Christian Book of Year.
He has also established a number of helpful Youtube channels, including ‘tips4dads’, ‘Behind The Tears’ and ‘tips4ChristianParents” He was named Western Australian of the Year in 2013. He is married to Jacqui and loves football, cricket and camping.
Doug McKay is an accomplished facilitator, coach and keynote speaker known for creating dynamic, engaging learning environments.
Doug’s facilitation style combines clear structure with flexibility, ensuring participants stay energised, involved, and focused on real-world application. Doug’s experience as a Lifeline Crisis Supporter and workplace trainer for Lifeline WA and large Australian talent organisations has heavily influenced his ability to deliver complex material with clarity and empathy across topics including Accidental Counsellor, Talking about Suicide, Psychological Safety, Unconscious Bias, and Respectful Workplaces.
As an independent contractor, Doug draws on over two decades of deep experience in recruitment, leadership development, coaching and training to bring energy and engagement to new audiences.
Daniel is a passionate youth advocate and educator who has engaged with over 70,000 young people across Australia.
He serves as a board member of the DART Institute and an ambassador for the Women’s ResilienceCentre and the national campaign Consent Can’t Wait.
Daniel was a recent nominee for the 2025 NSW Australian of the Year.
Marlize served in the SANDF for 12 years, and presented papers at the War and Society in Africa Conference and the South Africa at War in the Twentieth Century. She periodically provided business and leadership development training.
She worked as a YouthCARE School Chaplain for just over a decade. Currently, Marlize is serving in the Australian Army as a “Chaplain in Training”. Marlize is a Provisional Credentialed Minister with the ACC, with a Masters Degree in Organisational Psychology.
Dr Justin Coulson is one of Australia’s most trusted parenting and relationship speakers and authors. Justin is the founder of happyfamilies.com.au and the co-host and parenting expert on Channel Nine’s Parental Guidance.
Justin’s Happy Families podcast is the most downloaded parenting podcast in Australia. Justin earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Wollongong. He and his wife Kylie have been married since the late 1990s and have six daughters and one grand-daughter.
Phil Britten is a multi award winning international speaker, best-selling author, entrepreneur, a committed family man, husband and father. As an ambassador for charities, Phil has raised both funds and awareness to help find a cure for childhood cancer by climbing to the peaks of Gran Paradiso (the highest peak in the Italian Alps) and Mount Kilimanjaro (one of the seven summits), trekking the Kokoda Trail as well as a 7-day survival trek through the Australian Outback.
Phil has been awarded a WA Business News ‘40under40’ award in recognition as one of WA’s top entrepreneurs and was a Top Four Finalist for the Award’s highest accolade of ‘First Among Equals’. Phil has also been awarded ‘Most Inspiring Man of the Year’ by Momentum Forum and named as The Professional Speakers Academy (UK) 'Speaker of the Year' on multiple occasions. Recently Phil also appeared on the Channel 9 reality TV series ’The Summit’ as he worked with a group to climb one of New Zealand's highest mountains. But before any of this, Phil was a just 22 year old Australian footballer who, in 2002, was simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Suffering burns to 60% of his body following a terrorist bomb attack, Phil had to find the determination to overcome one of the darkest moments of his life and the courage to see a way through. Phil’s passion since then has been to share his life with others, to inspire people to step up, live their life to the full and start taking action NOW.
Jade Lewis is a nationally respected speaker with lived experience in addiction recovery and a Master’s in Criminology. For 24 years, she’s educated thousands of students on drugs, safe partying, vaping, respectful relationships, and internet safety.
A best-selling author, charity founder, wife, and mum of three, Jade brings professional expertise and real-life insight to every conversation—passionately equipping young people and those who support them to informed choices.
With both lived and professional experience in family and domestic violence (FDV), Deb is passionate about providing holistic support to address all aspects of FDV.
Deb has worked extensively across the sector, including men's behaviour change programs, in-home support, and counselling for victim survivors.
As the Counselling Lead for DVassist, providing trauma-informed, evidence-based support, for those who have experienced FDV, Deb holds a bachelor’s and a post-graduate degree in Psychology,
Daphne is a specialist family and domestic violence (FDV) educator at DVassist, an organisation that provides counselling and professional training across regional, rural, and remote WA.
Daphne has worked in the areas of women’s health and FDV for over 20 years in regional and remote settings. She provides professional learning across a wide range of areas and topics, but her primary work focuses on high-risk and high-harm FDV, sexual violence, and coercive control.