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COACHES BIOS AND MONTHLY RESOURCES.

SHERRI RING

Lead Coach
Sherri is the Director of Energy Health, a Tasmanian based Health, Wellbeing and Teambuilding Consultancy business. Sherri has over 30 years’ experience in helping companies across Australia create healthier, happier, and more connected workplaces. She is also the CEO and Creator of The Mind Games, a fun, action-packed event that raises funds to support Tasmanian Research into mental health in the workplace. Sherri is passionate about helping companies create and build mentally healthy, happy, and thriving employees and cultures. View our videos and other resources about HOSPO Health, including how to create healthy habits, from Sherri here. View our happiness and gratitude videos and resources from Sherri here.

Resources

Healthy
Habits

Benchmarking
Gratitude
at Work
Fun
at work
Happiness
at work
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MAIN STREET FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS

Financial Health
Main Street Financial Solutions is a boutique business that represents the future of financial planning globally. Working locally but engaging both nationally and internationally, the financial advisory team are highly qualified, and client focussed. Based in Hobart, (Charles Badenach and Michael Fox) from the Main Street team will help guide you through some of the common financial and strategic challenges that you as the business owner and your staff will face going forward. View our financial health videos and other resources from Main Street Financial here.

Resources

Financial health – superannuation
Financial health – insurance
FINANCIAL HEALTH – PROPERTY
Financial Health – super and your business

GAYE RUTHERFORD

Sports Dietitian
Gaye is a dietitian passionate about health and wellbeing. With experience across a variety of settings – including high performance sport, the recent Tokyo Paralympic Games, clinical, private practice and corporate – Gaye is passionate about supporting clients build skills, knowledge and daily habits that promote their physical and mental health. She understands every individual’s context is important and prefers to help her clients focus on moving towards goals and prioritising their strengths, rather than getting stuck in the land of guilt and diet cycling. She has a strong focus on gut health and body positivity, as well as being a past President of Sports Dietitians Australia. View our nutrition videos and other resources from Gaye here.

Resources

Shift work
&
healthy eating
Meal planning for eating well
What is a Mediterranean diet?

ANDREW BONSEY

Exercise Physiologist
Andrew has a strong personal and professional passion for health and fitness. He specialises in injury rehabilitation and management of chronic disease through the use of exercise and lifestyle coaching. Andrew is the Director of the HT Health Group at the Wrest Point Health Club and UniGym, which incorporates an allied health practice and health club facilities. Andrew has treated and coached thousands of Tasmanians to reach their health and injury rehabilitation potential. View Andrew's videos and other helpful resources here: Exercise and movement Injury prevention Sleep and hydration

Resources

Exercise, movement and physical activity
Sleep & Hydration
Injury Prevention

DR LARISSA BARTLETT

Executive Mindfulness Coach
Larissa has a PhD in occupational health and wellbeing from the Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania. For this work Larissa was awarded the American Psychological Association’s Work Stress and Health Student Researcher Award and has published ten peer reviewed research papers on the benefits for health and work of mindfulness, positive psychology and behaviour choices. Larissa’s research focuses on the influence of personal resources such as mindfulness and psychological capital (hope, optimism, efficacy and resilience) on health behaviours. She currently holds the ISLAND Research Fellowship at the University of Tasmania’s Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, running a population level public health study aiming to reduce the future rate of dementia in Tasmania. Larissa is also an experienced mindfulness coach, working with clients who seek to build hope, optimism, self-efficacy, and resilience, and to live their best lives. View our mindfulness videos including guided practices, and other resources from Larissa here.

Resources

What is mindfulness and how can it help?

DR ANGELA MARTIN

Mentally Healthy Workplaces
Professor Martin is Co-Director of Pracademia, a knowledge translation company working with business and industry to create evidence-informed approaches to health and social issues in working life. In addition to her work with Pracademia, she is a part-time Professorial Research Fellow, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, and an Adjunct Professor of Management, College of Business and Economics, at the University of Tasmania. She has 20 years of experience as an academic and practitioner in the fields of organisational behaviour and occupational health psychology. Angela is well known for her research on workplace mental health, program and intervention evaluation and the role of managers in creating mentally healthy workplaces. In 2017 she led the development of an influential white paper: An Integrated Approach to Workplace Mental Health: Nine priorities for Implementation in Australia which has shaped changes to policy and practice in a range of settings. View our videos and other resources on mentally healthy workplaces and building resilience from Angela here.

Resources

Further Resources for Mental Health at Work

ADAM NEBBS

Psychological Health & Safety
Adam Nebbs is a lived experience public health researcher at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research. Adam previously worked as a frontline leader in the banking industry and uses his industry knowledge to help inform his research. His research to date has been focused on identifying the tools available to organisations that are looking to create a mentally healthy workplace. His most recent study focuses on identifying the barriers and facilitators that may influence the implementation of workplace mental health strategies. Adam intends to use his findings to help create more sustainable and systematic workplace mental health approaches for Tasmanian businesses. View our videos on identifying and managing workplace psychosocial hazards and other resources from Adam here.

Resources

How to identify & manage workplace psychosocial hazards

DR SARAH DAWKINS

Clinical Psychology
Dr Sarah Dawkins is a Senior Consultant with Pracademia and a Senior Lecturer in Management at the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania. She is also a registered clinical psychologist and clinical supervisor, with more than 10 years’ experience working as a clinician, supervisor and facilitator across various settings including universities, not-for-profit, public and private sectors. Sarah currently serves as a director on the Relationships Australia (Tasmania) board and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). Sarah applies her training and experience in mental health to her consultancy, research and teaching. Her main research interests focus on the development of positive psychological resources in employees and work teams for enhanced performance and wellbeing. View our videos and resources on alcohol and other substance from Sarah here.

Resources

Alcohol & other drugs

JO BAILEY

Communications & Engagement Specialist
Jo’s professional career includes seventeen years in senior marketing management positions in the tourism, hospitality and higher education sectors; consultancy, specialising in marketing, brand, heritage and tourism interpretation, stakeholder engagement, communications; an extensive background in marketing, communications, business development and stakeholder management; expertise in the not-for-profit sector; and a combined 13 years experience as a Non-Executive Director. Jo has an MBA from the University of Tasmania. She grew up in Hobart, and spent three years working overseas in Thailand and Greece, before returning to her home state. Jo is a Non-Executive Director of Cricket Tasmania and President and Chair of Womensport & Recreation Tasmania. View our HOSPO Health resources that can be used in your business, including Jo's tips and hints, here.

Resources

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