Leaders Who Love. Building Resilient Teams at School and Work, with Graeme Cowan.

As a Board Director of R U OK?, he has watched this simple idea lead to substantial change. Audiences around the world frequently describe his style as authentic, relevant, compelling, and thought-provoking.

In his earlier career, he worked in senior leadership positions with Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and AT Kearney. In 2000 he went through a 5-year episode of depression that his psychiatrist described as the worst he had ever treated.He emerged from this crisis with a different view about how we can increase our resilience, mood, and performance. He is described by the Australian Financial Review as a “resilience expert”. He is the author of 5 books, including the internationally acclaimed “Back From the Brink”, which has a testimonial from the former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and which has become a best seller in China.

Graeme lives beside Sydney’s Lane Cove National Park with his wife Karen, and enjoys bushwalking anywhere nature shines. He loves spending time with family and friends and eating great food.