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Providing support for young apprentices is paramount to ensuring they have mentally healthy experiences in the workplace. Find out how you, as a workplace leader and an organisation, can look after the mental health and wellbeing of young apprentices as they start out in the automotive trade industry.

How does positive mental health and wellbeing contribute to productive, happy workplaces? This article will delve into the concept of mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, how poor work cultures and environments affect productivity, and the important factors within good mental health and wellbeing can improve worker performance.

  Workplace Wellbeing: what is it and how does it impact productivity? Workplace wellbeing refers to how we feel when we’re at work. The goal of workplace wellbeing is to [...]

Article in Driven Women Magazine can be read here or below. Above left: Ms Bronwyn Halfpenny MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Workplace Safety at the Kangan Institute Workshop with Tayla Mcilwain, an Apprentice [...]

Lifting the Bonnet on Workplace Diversity and Mental Health "It is through grass roots programs like the workplace diversity project that we can foster better cultures in all workplaces and [...]

Radio interview on ABC Radio 7 July 2021  

Radmila Desic AM migrated to Australia at the age of seven after an earthquake destroyed her family home in Bar in the former Yugoslavia. Radmila began her career as an apprentice Carpenter Joiner in 1992. In 2010 Radmila received the 1st Place Gold Winner of the inaugural 2010 Centre for Leadership for Women’s National Advancement of Women in the Workplace Award (AWWA) for developing and implementing a state-wide strategy for Women in Construction. 

The average wage across all trade types was $90,246.55 per year Tradeswomen Australia Community Foundation have introduced their 'Building Futures: Pathways to Trades' program to schools, aimed at providing female secondary students [...]

Amy Wells is an engineer with private and public business experience. Skilled at growing people and business, Amy is often the foundation stone in times of change when teams and organisations are looking to scale, are scaling, or need to reshape.

Ruth Palmer is a well-known business leader in the Northern Territory. With a Masters of Business Administration and over seven years of experience as Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia, she has become an adept and strategic leader in membership-based organisations. She previously served as a Shadow Policy Adviser for Women’s Policy in her previous political career.