Creating Synergy Podcast #75 - Georgie Harman, CEO of Beyond Blue on Mental Health, Setting Personal Boundaries and How to Lead Well-being in the Workplace
Georgie is the CEO of Beyond Blue and is known for her decisive and personable leadership style and her track record of delivering complex reforms. She has significant experience in policy development, service delivery and change management across the community, public and private sectors.
Appointed CEO of Beyond Blue in May 2014, Georgie has diversified the organisation’s activities and led significant growth in service innovation, suicide prevention and digital offerings in response to community needs.
Previously, she was Deputy CEO of the National Mental Health Commission and for six years prior to that, served as a senior executive at the Commonwealth Department of Health where she had national responsibility for mental health, suicide prevention, substance misuse, cancer and chronic disease. At the same time, she led the strategy and development of legislation to introduce plain packaging of tobacco products in Australia – a world first.
Georgie has also led national reforms to lift Australia’s organ and tissue donation rates and worked in the HIV/AIDS sector in Australia and the UK.
Georgie is driven by a determination to do better for people and their families using a community heart and a business head.
On today’s show, we dived into her journey to becoming the CEO of Beyond Blue and she describes how it is the most purposeful job she has ever had, and still continuing her own growth journey after 8 years in the role. We talked about the challenging work that the team at Beyond Blue faces every day, and how building a culture of trust and clear communication is key to their success.
Listen as we discuss:
- managing oneself
- setting your own personal boundaries
- the different types of frameworks organisations can use to manage the well-being of their people
- How vulnerability can be used as a superpower
- and Living as your authentic self is a fundamental pillar in managing your own mental health.
Books mentioned in this episode:
- Happy Never After by Jill Stark
- Not Waving, Drowning - Mental illness and vulnerability in Australia: Quarterly Essay 85 By Sarah Krasnostein
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