I am a mother of 3 beautiful children all entering into their teenage years. Being present in their lives and supporting them to navigate this next phase in their journey is of primary importance. I'd like to say that it's not work but it very much is a core component of what I see as my primary work at this stage in my life.
On an individual level, I find myself with a real longing for connection to place and to people. Although this has always been there, it is now more acute. The stories we tell, the paradigms we use and the lives we inhabit in mainstream society have increasingly felt hollow and mechanistic. So, at this stage in my life, the work I find myself consumed with, is the work to truly understand and refine the unique contribution I can make towards bridging the growing gap I see in our human connection to place and each other. I started my professional life working as a clinician. Frustrated with the system within which we work in and acutely enraged by the inequity in access to basic health care, I left work as a clinician to focus my efforts on reform and system transformation. The system remains reactive and totally fragmented and our responses are often short sighted and poorly responsive to the interconnected social/human/environmental factors that lead to poor health and wellbeing. Current approaches are reactive, dominated by western dogma and constrained by institutional bureaucracy. My work keeps me searching for a more humanistic way of thinking and working that engenders agency rather than dependency in the people and communities we seek to serve. Improving the systematic health and wellbeing of our communities cannot be a problem for the health industry to solve on its own.I hope to find a way to look beyond the system constraints and current paradigms that constrain the realms of possibility and potential.

As a mother - guardian, teacher, listener, coach and spiritual guide
In work - I want to play a part in challenging the status quo in the public health and care sector. We need a different way to think and reimagine the way we approach and deliver health care in a way that re-connects us to place and each other. COVID-19 has delivered the burning platform for us to do things differently in healthcare and with the opportunity I have to lead and influence change at scale in our public health sector, I see myself needing to play an important role to learn about how we could do things differently and apply this in practice.

Working at the coal face in system reform, I have the opportunity to develop and test new service delivery models. Our reach into the community health sector both as commissioners and as providers, places us in a unique position to influence change across the state of Victoria. The community health model is unique to Victoria and is optimally positioned to play a critical role in enhancing the health and wellbeing of our communities. Although this infrastructure exists, we are not capitalising on the full potential the community health sector offers to support better health and wellbeing in local catchment areas.
We have been given funding to design an Early Years service delivery model to improve the oral health of our Children entering primary school. Poor oral health can profoundly impact on a child's ability to eat, drink, sleep and function well socially. This has been shown to then have lasting impacts into adulthood with direct links between oral disease and health conditions, such as adverse pregnancy outcomes, diabetes, and heart disease. My goal is to use this unique opportunity to try something different with the design of our Early Years service delivery model.

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I am in search of a way to bring all parts of my life together. I want to be able to approach the way I work, using the same universal truths that I look to for guidance to help me find meaning and fulfillment in my personal life. There is a current tension between these two parts of my life that I hope to keep working on to resolve. Somewhere in the middle is a deep knowing and a more fulfilled sense of being that I believe resides in all of us - the essence of which I believe we can only access through more meaningful connections to each other and the natural world.

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I've invested in formal education - Completing a degree in Physiotherapy and a Senior Executive MBA
I've invested in professional coaches, numerous short courses, including an intensive on Value Based Healthcare at Harvard
I actively seek out feedback and challenging roles to keep learning and growing.
Above all, I dedicate time to read broadly and set aside time to think deeply.

Humberto Maturana
Fritjof Capra
Andreas Weber
Hilary Cottam
Peter Senge
Michael Porter

This is a big question and one that I am still on a journey to more fully understand. I do share the view that we are here to play a vital role as system stewards. We are biologically designed to flourish and thrive through connection with each other and the natural world. We each have a unique contribution to make and we collectively have the creative potential to solve our most wicked problems.