Health and Safety Month 2026 speaker profiles

Dr Page is an organisational psychologist, author and leadership partner at ByMany, who has spent her career asking one big question.

What makes work good for us?.

She is recognised for her work at the intersection of leadership, workplace culture and mental health, helping organisations create healthier, high-performing workplaces.

Throughout her career, Dr Page has worked with leaders across a wide range of industries and countries, supporting organisations to design work that promotes wellbeing, protects people and enables strong performance. An Adjunct Professor and trusted adviser to boards and executives, she is known for turning complex evidence into practical, human-centred solutions. Dr Page is also a sought-after speaker on the future of work, leadership and wellbeing.

Shelley was one of the first Aboriginal women, to regularly appear on mainstream television and now has over two decades of experience in live television broadcast. She was a regular on Channel 7’s AFL show, ‘Live and Kicking.’ Shelley is well known as part of the ground breaking NITV-SBS football program Marngrook. She was the host of AFL.com’s Colour Of Your Jumper and now hosts her own Facebook show Ware2Now? sharing everyday people’s stories. She is a regular “Morning Broad’ on Broad Radio and a member of the Outersanctum podcast. Shelley writes a fortnightly AFL and opinion column for the Koori Mail. She was named the 2019 Fujitsu General Football Woman of the Year.

Shelley is a well sought after Master of Ceremonies, panel facilitator and a regular keynote presenter to corporations, education conferences and events. Espousing her perspective on females in sport, Aboriginal issues, talking to her advocacy work in racism, preventing violence against women, women’s health issues and online safety, education and her own journey.

Shelley is also a teacher and is passionate, about embedding First Nations histories and cultures into our classrooms and the national curriculum. She consults and works closely with schools, networks, staff and leadership, supporting them in delivering First Nations histories, perspectives and cultures to their students in a culturally safe manner. Shelley writes National curriculum aligned teaching resources, that give teachers a starting point and the support needed to feel confident, in the classroom. Shelley hosts workshops in First Nations history, perspectives, cultures and art within primary and secondary school classrooms around Australia. She was a finalist in the NAIDOC Education Award in 2024. She is a published author with her latest book ‘We are Matildas’ illustrated by Serena Geddes. As a proud Indigenous Literacy Foundation Ambassador, she continues to mentor students from remote communities, so they can also become published authors.

Associate Professor Ryan Hoy

MBBS MOccEnvHlth FRACP PhD

Associate Professor Hoy is a Respiratory Physician from Melbourne, Australia with a master’s degree in occupational health.

He is the lead physician for the Occupational Respiratory Clinic at the Alfred Hospital and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Monash University Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health. His primary research is in the field of occupational causes of respiratory diseases, and he has over 35 publications on the topic of silicosis.

In 2019, Dr Hoy was appointed to the National Dust Disease Taskforce, and in 2022 chaired the National Silicosis Prevention Strategy, facilitated by the Lung Foundation of Australia.