Description
Event Details
30 May 2025, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Presented by Transitioning Well & HR Legal, with special guest Amy Nicholas
Empower Your Organisation. Safeguard Your People. Lead with Confidence.
In an era where adopting a proactive approach workplace to mental health has become increasingly paramount, organisations are recognising the critical need to adopt trauma-informed approaches to support their workforce. With research by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2022) indicating that 75% of Australian adults have experienced at least one traumatic event, the implementation of trauma-informed leadership practices has become not just beneficial, but essential for modern workplace wellbeing.
In response to these escalating demands, we invite you to join Transitioning Well and HR Legal for an exclusive, invitation-only roundtable designed specifically for executive leaders seeking to future-proof their organisations and cultivate psychologically safe, high-performing workplaces.
Why Attend?
- Expert-Led Insights: Gain practical, research-backed strategies from leading workplace psychologists and employment law experts.
- Boardroom-Ready Tools: Walk away with actionable frameworks for trauma response recognition, prevention of re-traumatisation, and the implementation of six core trauma-informed principles.
- Legal and Compliance Focus: Understand your obligations and best-practice approaches to proactively managing psychosocial hazards, supporting distressed staff, and creating robust reporting and response protocols.
- Learn from the Qantas Case Study: Discover how The Qantas Group partnered with Transitioning Well to deliver industry-leading trauma-informed practice training, achieving a 98% improvement in understanding and 96% intent to apply strategies among participants.
What You’ll Experience
- Interactive Executive Roundtable: Engage with senior executive peers in confidential, solution-focused discussions on trauma exposure, vicarious trauma, and psychological safety at the highest levels of leadership.
- Masterclass Content:
- Recognise the signs of trauma exposure in your teams
- Distinguish normal stress reactions from trauma responses
- Implement controls to proactively mitigate psychosocial risks
- Learn how to foster environments where employees feel empowered and supported
- Legal Perspectives: Understand the risks from a legal perspective and learn to navigate the often-complex legislative requirements with HR Legal’s expert guidance.
Who Should Attend?
- C-Suite Executives
- Board Directors
- Senior HR Leaders
- Legal and Risk Executives
Key Outcomes
- Equip your leadership team with the knowledge to drive a trauma-informed culture
- Enhance employee wellbeing, engagement, and retention
- Reduce organisational risk and meet evolving legal obligations
- Position your organisation as an employer of choice in a complex, changing world
Event Details:
- Venue: HR Legal Offices, Level 6, 10 River Street, South Yarra
- Date: Friday, 30 May 2025
- Time: 11:00am – 1:00pm AEST (including breaks and light refreshments)
- Cost: FREE
About the Facilitators
Georgie Chapman
Georgie is a Partner at HR Legal with substantial expertise in both litigious and non-litigious employment and workplace relations. She advises a diverse range of employers on matters including discrimination, industrial relations, occupational health and safety, and employee termination. Renowned for her ability to guide clients through the complexities of employment law, Georgie is committed to helping organisations achieve their commercial objectives while fostering positive workplace cultures and managing legal risk. She is passionate about supporting employers to adopt best practices, particularly in the areas of workplace mental health and managing family and domestic violence, and is highly regarded for delivering engaging and practical training for senior leaders.
Dr. Eleanor De-Ath Miller
Eleanor is a registered Clinical Neuropsychologist with a Doctoral degree in Clinical Neuropsychology. She is a Senior Consultant with Transitioning Well.
Eleanor’s clinical work in public health spans more than 20 years across multiple acute and community-based settings. She has expertise in the cognitive, emotional and behavioural sequelae of neurological conditions and trauma, and has been involved in supporting and training individuals and teams in government, not-for-profits and private industry. She draws heavily on the science of wellbeing, particularly ACT and Positive Psychology, and the field of interpersonal neurobiology. Drawing on her research training, she creates meaningful, evidence-based content for organisations and supports individual clients to find new ways of adapting to change and challenge with flexibility and authenticity.
Amy Nicholas
Amy is an experienced social worker, researcher, and consultant specialising in vicarious trauma mitigation. With a practice background spanning domestic and family violence, youth work, and mental health—primarily in remote and regional settings—Amy brings both clinical expertise and lived experience to her work. In 2023, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to investigate international emerging best practice in vicarious trauma management. Her report, Mitigating Vicarious Trauma: Adopting an Occupational Safety Approach, was published in early 2025 and has been well received across government, not-for-profit, and corporate sectors.
Secure Your Place
This event is by invitation-only and spaces are strictly limited to ensure a high-value, interactive experience.
Take the lead on workplace wellbeing – RSVP your spot today by emailing events@hrlegal.com.au.
Our seminars, webinars and workshops are for the benefit of clients and perspective clients and others working in organisations who are seeking learning and development opportunities in employment law and workplace safety. HR Legal reserves the right to cancel the registration of any person.
