Welcome Address

Description

The official opening of PHSCON 2025, featuring Liz Payne and Jason van Schie. This session welcomes delegates and outlines the focus for the two-day conference on psychosocial health and safety at work.

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Liz Payne

ACT/NSW Chair

A passionate and accomplished Organisational Psychologist, Liz has helped many organisations achieve their strategic goals by improving the culture, performance and wellbeing of their employees. She is an endorsed Organisational Psychologist, Chair for the NSW, APS College of Organisational Psychologists and long term member of the Australian Psychological Society.

Liz has a breadth of local and international experience delivering culture transformation, leadership development, and workplace mental health projects across many industries.

Highlights include:
– working with some of the world’s best automative engineers in the workshops of Jaguar Land Rover, UK on a global culture transformation project;
– travelling across remote areas of NSW/ ACT to support kind, committed aged care workers transform their model of care;

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Jason van Schie

Managing Director & Psychologist

Jason van Schie is the Managing Director of People Diagnostix. Jason holds a Masters of Applied Psychology (Occupational) and has been working as a registered psychologist since 2005. He has a wealth of experience consulting to workplaces and schools locally and internationally in the areas of health, wellbeing and safety.

He is the lead contributor to FlourishDx – a leading psychological health and safety digital platform that makes integrated and risk based approach to workplace mental health accessible at scale. He is also the co-host of the Psych Health and Safety Podcast and course instructor on the 45003 Academy – both free resources to rapidly advance psychological health and safety understanding and practice.