Optus Stadium
8-9 October 2025

The Speakers

Our professionally acclaimed speakers will inspire and guide you through critical and delights topics to help ensure your organisation real-world challenges are addressed professionally and sensitively.

Our guest speaker have deeply considered the sensitivities of the Western Australian community, to return you to work, ready to implement new learnings, enhance your workplace and create greater opportunities to respond to the needs of your community.  

Together we can support our local communities by Caring through Connection.

Deborah Bartlett
FDV Counselling Lead

With both lived and professional experience in family and domestic violence (FDV), Deb is passionate about providing holistic support to address all aspects of FDV.

Deb has worked extensively across the sector, including men's behaviour change programs, in-home support, and counselling for victim survivors.

As the Counselling Lead for DVassist, providing trauma-informed, evidence-based support, for those who have experienced FDV, Deb holds a bachelor’s and a post-graduate degree in Psychology,

Daniel Principe
Advocate and Educator

Daniel is a passionate youth advocate and educator who has engaged with over 70,000 young people across Australia.

He serves as a board member of the DART Institute and an ambassador for the Women’s ResilienceCentre and the national campaign Consent Can’t Wait.

Daniel was a recent nominee for the 2025 NSW Australian of the Year.

Dr Justin Coulson
Bestselling author, relationship and wellbeing speaker

Dr Justin Coulson is one of Australia’s most trusted parenting and relationship speakers and authors. Justin is the founder of happyfamilies.com.au and the co-host and parenting expert on Channel Nine’s Parental Guidance.

Justin’s Happy Families podcast is the most downloaded parenting podcast in Australia. Justin earned his PhD in Psychology from the University of Wollongong. He and his wife Kylie have been married since the late 1990s and have six daughters and one grand-daughter.

Marlize Pretorius
Chaplain

Marlize served in the SANDF for 12 years, and presented papers at the War and Society in Africa Conference and the South Africa at War in the Twentieth Century. She periodically provided business and leadership development training.

She worked as a YouthCARE School Chaplain for just over a decade. Currently, Marlize is serving in the Australian Army as a “Chaplain in Training”. Marlize is a Provisional Credentialed Minister with the ACC, with a Masters Degree in Organisational Psychology.