Melanie McAnaney

Principal Consultant Wellbeing

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network

Melanie McAnaney is a healthcare wellbeing and organisational culture professional with extensive experience supporting workforce mental health within complex health systems. With a background in psychology, she applies evidence informed and systems based approaches to strengthening leadership capability, psychological health and safety, and team culture in high pressure healthcare environments.

Melanie’s work focuses on embedding sustainable wellbeing strategies that move beyond standalone initiatives toward measurable, organisation-wide impact. She partners with leaders and teams to design practical interventions that address burnout, improve engagement, and strengthen retention.

In the face of ongoing workforce shortages across healthcare, Melanie is particularly interested in the role of organisational culture as a retention strategy. She highlights how leadership behaviour, psychological safety, and meaningful connection at work are critical factors in whether staff choose to stay, grow, and contribute. Her approach positions wellbeing not as an optional extra, but as foundational to workforce sustainability and safe patient care.

A finalist in the 2024 Australian Workplace Health and Safety Awards for Best WHS Health & Wellbeing Program with Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network and FlourishDx, Melanie is passionate about helping healthcare organisations create cultures where people feel valued, supported, and able to thrive , even amid system pressures.