President
Ethics Advisor
NZ Representative
General Manager
Victoria representative
Secretary
Executive Officer
Marketing and Engagement Specialist
Treasurer
23-24 October 2025
Hilton Hotel, Sydney
Executive Officer, EAPAA
PO Box 222 Mona Vale NSW 1660
Executive Director Digital, Converge
Mary leads Digital Products and Marketing at Converge, where she combines creativity, strategy, and technology to help people thrive at work.
She is passionate about transforming how organisations support their people using data to uncover what truly drives wellbeing, digital tools to make help more accessible, and marketing to spark meaningful engagement.
With a background spanning digital transformation, product innovation, and marketing, Mary brings these worlds together to design experiences that make a genuine difference and build solutions that leave workplaces stronger, healthier and more connected.
Ethics Advisor
CEO, Caraniche, and Psychologist
Over a career spanning more than 20 years, Jacinta has been an active part of the evolution of Caraniche’s EAP services in Australia. She has extensive experience developing and delivering psychological programs, and is attuned to the changing needs of workplaces across Australia. Jacinta also has extensive expertise in forensic substance abuse treatment and correctional systems. As the Managing Director of Caraniche for the past decade, Jacinta has raised Caraniche’s profile as a pre-eminent psychology and workplace wellbeing company.
New Zealand representative
Chief Clinical Officer, EAP Services
Julie Cameron is a Registered Nurse with over 17 years of experience in workplace health, following a career spanning mental health, community health, medical, and aged care sectors. With a deep commitment to equity and access in healthcare, she is passionate about ensuring that all individuals have the opportunity to achieve better health outcomes, particularly through education, early intervention, and sustainable primary healthcare services.
As Chief Clinical Officer, Julie is responsible for driving excellence across three key pillars of business operations: clinical quality, operational efficiency, and service growth. She ensures that healthcare services are not only clinically sound but also delivered in a way that is cost-effective, timely, and responsive to the needs of both employers and employees. Her leadership focuses on optimising service delivery, streamlining processes, and expanding the reach of workplace health services to support more organisations and individuals.
Julie is particularly dedicated to empowering employers to create resilient, productive workplaces by providing the right health support for their teams. She is a strong advocate for improving health literacy, helping individuals take control of their personal health goals and make informed decisions about their well-being. She believes that by strengthening primary healthcare and fostering collaboration between private and public sectors, New Zealand can achieve better long-term health outcomes, reducing the burden on secondary and tertiary care
General Manager, Assure
Mallory has 20 years’ experience in health operations and service design. She is a qualified Enterprise Architect with deep experience in Human Centred Design and a passion for digital health, data and designing outstanding client experiences. She has worked as part of the APM Group for 7 years in a range of roles including as General Manager of Product, where she worked across APM’s 19 health brands to lead product development, innovation and enhancement projects. This included developing services to support men’s mental health, and to address long-term mental health claims in the workers compensation space using a combination of exercise and CBT. Since January 2025 she has been General Manager of Assure, leading the EAP businesses within the APM Group.
Psychologist and General Manager of Behaviour and Workplace Health, Caraniche.
With over 20 years of experience, she has developed deep expertise in partnering with organisations to foster mentally healthy and high-performing workplaces.
Her professional strengths span program development, leadership consulting, psychosocial risk management, critical incident response, reflective practice, supervision, training, and pre-employment assessments. Edith has worked across a diverse range of industries, helping organisations navigate complex mental health challenges and implement effective, evidence-based strategies.
Alongside her organisational work, Edith brings extensive clinical experience supporting individuals with neurodivergence, anxiety, depression, trauma, and a broad spectrum of psychological presentations. Central to her approach is a strong commitment to building trusted client relationships and working collaboratively to enhance wellbeing outcomes at both individual and organisational levels.
As General Manager, she leads contract management, project and program delivery, operational oversight, and drives strategic business initiatives with a focus on quality and impact.
Executive Director Corporate Services, Relationship Matters
Karen oversees the organisation’s operational and business infrastructure and brings extensive experience across finance, corporate governance, human resources, information technology, risk management, compliance, and administration. She has played a key role in the establishment and growth of several organisations, implementing robust quality assurance frameworks and leading contract negotiations and performance monitoring for major infrastructure projects within the health and community services sector.
Her strategic leadership and commitment to operational excellence ensure that Relationship Matters continues to deliver high-quality, sustainable services that support individuals, families, and workplaces across Victoria.
Executive Officer
With nearly two decades of experience in association management, membership engagement, and large-scale event delivery, she has built a career supporting professional communities across Australia and New Zealand. Her association experience spans engineering, accounting, mental health, and shareholder advocacy, with roles including managing Engineers Australia’s Sydney Division events and sponsorship portfolio and the National Conference team, producing conferences for Chartered Accountants ANZ, and part of the Executive team for the World Congress of Accountants.
Across positions with Suicide Prevention Australia, Leading Edge Group Australia, and the Australian Shareholders’ Association, she has delivered impactful events, developed membership offerings, and managed strong sponsor and stakeholder relationships. Known for elevating member value, enhancing professional engagement, and delivering seamless, high-impact event portfolios, she brings strategic leadership, operational excellence, and a deep commitment to strengthening Australia’s association and professional services sectors.