For more than three decades, Lisa Wilkinson has blazed an unprecedented trail through the Australian media landscape.  Initially in publishing, then onto radio and now in television and online, in every forum Lisa has achieved extraordinary success and earned widespread respect.

Following her successful ten years as co-host of the Nine Network’s Today Show, Lisa accepted a new challenge in late 2017 by signing with Network Ten as host of its prime-time award-winning news and current affairs program, The Project. In 2021, Lisa signed another long term deal with Network Ten which is a clear reflection of her standing and influence within the Australian media industry. 

Lisa is very highly regarded throughout the Australian media industry.   In the 2016 Australia Day Honours list, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her significant service to the print and broadcast media, as a journalist and presenter, and to a range of youth and women’s health groups.

Lisa’s media career got off to an astonishing start when she became the youngest ever editor of a national magazine – young women’s title Dolly – at the tender age of just 21. Four years later, after almost tripling the circulation, Lisa was head-hunted by the late Kerry Packer, who offered her the editorship of the iconic Cleo magazine. Over the next decade, Lisa guided the magazine to new circulation highs, making it the No.1 selling women’s lifestyle magazine per capita in the world.

With her skills demanded internationally, Lisa set up her own magazine consultancy, whilst juggling three small children and her new role as radio host, working alongside some of the industry’s best, including Doug Mulray and Mike Carlton.

It was then Lisa made the switch to television.  Initially with Foxtel on the panel discussion program Beauty & The Beast, then to Channel Seven hosting the Morning Shift and Weekend Sunrise, before joining Channel Nine at the helm of Nine’s Today Show where her talents took the program to the No. 1 spot in breakfast television. Her latest appointment at CBS-owned Ten Network, will see her advance her influence in Australian television to even greater heights

Apart from her diverse media skills, Lisa is also known as a mentor to young women. Under her special brand of guidance and training, there are now 21 women and men around the world who have gone on to become successful magazine editors themselves. Nicole Kidman, Miranda Kerr and Megan Gale can also thank Lisa for her talent-spotting skills and guidance, as she helped them on their way early in their careers.

In 2013, Lisa Wilkinson was invited to deliver the prestigious annual Andrew Olle lecture, in honour of the late Australian television host, and her presentation drew enormous acclaim from both the public and her media colleagues. She became only the second female journalist after Jana Wendt in 17 years to be given the honour. In 2017, her portrait, by Peter Smeeth, won the Packing Room Prize in the Archibald art awards.

A member of The Walkley Advisory Board, which is responsible for judging the overall winners of the annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, Lisa is a global ambassador of The Fred Hollows Foundation, as well as supporting numerous other charities including Barnardo’s, Breast Cancer Institute of Australia, National Breast Cancer Foundation, the Melanoma Institute, the Ingham Medical Research Institute, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, the Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, Adopt Change, Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food, The Big Issue and the Butterfly Foundation.

In 2014, Lisa signed with publishing power-house Harper Collins to publish her much anticipated autobiography due for release in November 2021. From childhood to her incredible career, and into motherhood, and all the while establishing herself in the world of broadcast. Lisa’s autobiography is a look inside the incredible life and career of one of Australia’s most influential women.  

Lisa is married to journalist, best-selling author and former Wallaby rugby international, Peter FitzSimons AM.  They have three children.

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Lisa Messenger is the vibrant, game-changing founder and CEO of Collective Hub. She launched Collective Hub as a print magazine in 2013 with no experience in an industry that people said is either dead or dying. Collective Hub has since grown into an international multimedia business and lifestyle platform with multiple verticals across print, digital, events and more recently, co-working spaces – all of which serve to ignite human potential.

Lisa is a regular commentator on business, entrepreneurialism, wellness and entrepreneurialism. Her passion is to challenge individuals and corporations to change the way they think, take them out of their comfort zone and prove that there is more than one way to do anything. She encourages entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and innovation and lives life to the absolute max.

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Dr Olivia is a medical doctor with an interest in health coaching, personalised, and preventative medicine. Following a traditional path into medicine, some 15 years ago Dr Olivia began to appreciate the incredible role of nutrition and lifestyle factors in our overall health and well-being. And so began her commitment to helping her patients to improve their health through a holistic and functional medicine approach.

Dr Olivia’s dedication, knowledge and immense compassion have helped hundreds of people improve their health and live better lives. Dr Olivia focusses on a comprehensive understanding of patients’ medical and lifestyle history. Dr Olivia uses a variety of tools and testing protocols including genetic SNP analyses to analyse individual positions in order to better understand what is impacting someone’s health and why. She addresses a range of health issues for her clients including; allergies, brain health, gut health, sleep management, anti-ageing, auto-immune conditions, complex health concerns, and cancer recovery.

Having lived in New York and LA for the past 10 years and travelling across the globe to work and learn from the best in the wellness arena, Dr Olivia’s approach uses evidence-based treatments, and considers the most up-to-date studies and modern medical ideas. With patients all over the World, Dr Olivia is one of Australia’s leading providers of individualized medicine.

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Dr Jake is one of Australia’s leading aesthetic doctors. Originally from the UK, he trained as a general surgeon in both London and Sydney for more than 10 years and had extensive experience in several sub-specialties including colorectal, breast and trauma surgery. In 2017 he dedicated his time to focus purely on cosmetic medicine and now works in clinics across Australia. 

Dr Jake first learnt basic cosmetic injectable treatments in the UK in 2008. He was trained by Mr Adrian Richards, a leading Plastic Surgeon in the UK at Cosmetic Courses.  He quickly became known for his innovative style and outstanding results.

In 2015 Dr Jake moved from London to Sydney and he has grown an excellent reputation across Australia for his work. He regularly sees interstate patients and is sought out by celebrities who often need subtle work to be done. His Instagram profile helps educate people about injectables and aims to empower people to understand the cosmetic process.

In June 2018, Dr Jake was appointed as an injectables trainer for Allergan, the world’s leading facial aesthetics company. In this role, Dr Jake acts as a consultant and key opinion leader to facilitate anti-wrinkle, dermal filler and fat dissolving training in Sydney and across Australia.

Most recently in January 2020, Dr Jake was selected by Allergan as one of only fifty doctors across the world to be part of the ‘MD Codes Mentorship programme’. The MD Codes is an advanced injecting syllabus and has helped Dr Jake become one of the best injectors in Australia. In this new role, Dr Jake will undergo a two years of mentorship under Dr Mauricio De Maio to become an expert MD Codes trainer. This is a huge honour for Dr Jake’s work to be recognised and will help facilitate better injector training in the future. Dr Jake is one of the founders of the successful podcast “Inside Aesthetics”.

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Associate Professor Rafael Gomez is founder and head of the BMW Group + QUT Design Academy, based at QUT, Brisbane. The Academy is a partnership between BMW Group in Munich, Germany and QUT School of Design in Brisbane, Australia. It is a design hub for advanced learning, cutting-edge research and R+D projects focused on the application of emerging technologies including virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and robotics among others. Assoc Prof Gomez spearheaded this partnership over many years and oversees academy operations including program structure and management, personnel recruitment, internship program, PhD and MPhil projects, commercial research project collaborations, R+D initiatives, research grant applications, and external engagements. He is also Study Area Coordinator for Industrial Design at QUT, is a prominent researcher in the field of emotional experience, wearable tech for medical/health applications and emerging technologies and has developed frameworks for emotional experience currently being used by global industry leaders such as BMW to better understand peoples’ evolving emotional experience with devices, interfaces, services and systems. In addition, Dr Gomez brings over 15 years’ industry experience as a designer for small, medium and large enterprises across aviation, construction, medical, government and consumer electronics. 

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Dr. Lipp graduated with a PhD from the University of Frankfurt. He became a fellow doctor at Goethe University in Frankfurt and worked for 2 decades in privates clinics in Germany. He shifted his focus to aesthetic medicine in the year 2001. Since then, Dr. Lipp continues to develop his interest in minimal invasivve aesthetics and advanced skin treatments. He was a founding member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Botulinum Toxin Therapy in 2006. He is a licensed international trainer for personalised skincare, fillers and toxins, representing Brera, Ipsen, Teoxane and Biologique Recherche. Since 2009, he works with Biologique Recherche in his clinic and joined their medical advisory board as well as the research team in Paris led by MD Philippe Allouche. Today, Dr. Lipp is the director and CMO of Aesthetic Center Grmbh & Co KG in Ratingen and a member of International Society of Aesthetic Medicine EV. 

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Dr Zac Turner is a passionate medical practitioner who specialises in preventative Health and Wellness. At the age of sixteen, Dr Zac entered university, and some eleven years he successfully gained four health and medical degrees (Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Sydney, Bachelor of Nursing at Central Queensland University, and Bachelor of Biomedical Science at the University of the Sunshine Coast).

He is currently studying a PHD Doctorate at UNSW in Biomedical Engineering. His passion for health and vitality led him to start Concierge Doctors, a telehealth service focusing on preventative health and body optimization. Zac’s passion for health was realised at a young age growing up in rural Queensland. During his high school years he enjoyed volunteering for humanitarian causes in areas of need, including Arnhem Land, the Philippines, Cambodia, and the Congo. 

Certified meditation teacher and a qualified BWY yoga teacher.

Emma is a leading expert in meditation and on how our mind impacts every aspect of our body and life.

She was most profoundly impacted by her 6 month residency with the Ishaya monks in Spain where she studied Ascension - a form of Vedic meditation.

For the past 8 years she has run courses and workshops all across the globe, specialising in bespoke wellness retreats, meditation in schools and one on one meditation intensives.

Emma is passionate about sharing the incredible benefits that meditation can bring. She believes that learning the simple art of how to ‘be present’ in life is the greatest gift we can give ourselves and the key to living life to our fullest potential

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Libby grew up on a cattle farm in Australia and then followed her passion for acting, graduating from NIDA in 2008. After acting both on television and the stage, Libby moved to Los Angeles to pursue a film acting career. She spent the next 10 years or more starring in a range of mainstage productions for Queensland Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, and toured nationally in major shows; as well as starring in internationally awarded films like Eight (Amazon Prime), Wild Woman, The Hunted, and Mommy Would Never Hurt You (Lifetime Movies).

It was during her acting career that Libby’s health was first impacted by constant dieting and maintaining a busy schedule, and she was eventually diagnosed with an auto-immune condition. So began her real interest in health, lifestyle and nutrition, eventually leading her to Black Iron Nutrition where she undertook an internship and obtained her Precision Nutrition Certificate.

Returning to Australia when Covid-19 struck, Libby now mentors her own clients to help them develop a sound nutritional and lifestyle focus. Libby is particularly passionate about positive body image and the role that lifestyle plays in our overall health. She continues her passion for acting, most recently starring in Queensland Theatre Co’s 2021 season opening play “Our Town”.

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Mary-Lou has practiced as a retail and compounding pharmacist since graduating from the University of Queensland in 1990. She trained for several years in the USA, which cemented her passion for compounding. Her belief is that personalised medicine can create wellness.

She holds a Bachelor of Pharmacy from The University of Queensland , with a Dean’s Recommendation of Honours. She has studied abroad in the USA at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Iowa and has over 25 years of experience in the field of compounding and health creation. Participating in PCCA Australian Advisory Board further demonstrated her passion for individualising health care. She completed her Diplomate with A4M ( The American Board of Anti-Ageing Health Practitioners) in 2015, and she recently completed Certification from the Institute of Functional Medicine. Her business The Compounding Lab was a finalist in the 2019 Telstra business awards for innovation in health care in Queensland.

Mary-Lou is an Anti-Ageing health practitioner and specialises in bio-identical hormone balancing, creating wellness, and correcting epidemic nutrient deficiencies in her community. Recently her passion has embraced facilitating wellness programs around FASTING, in particular a Clean Food Fast protocol to doctors and allied health business of all sizes around Australia, aimed ultimately in improving their success by crafting creative solutions for their patients journey to better health and inflammation reduction.

Nina spent 8 years in Europe, where she danced professionally in both classical ballet and contemporary companies. She gained her Yoga Teacher qualification a few years ago, and since then, her love for the Yoga practice has transformed her life both physically and spiritually.

The incorporation of her technical skills and passion for movement, ensures a thorough yet graceful approach to creating a healthy connection between Mind, Body and Spirit.

She bring a wealth of in-depth knowledge of the body, providing a safe and exciting Yoga practice. She is a lululemon Ambassador for the James Street store and she specializes in corporate and private yoga and also runs luxury retreats in Australia.