Minds Count Foun­da­tion Annu­al Lec­ture 2022

The event will start at 6pm and will be avail­able to attend via livestream. This year we will be hear­ing from Berke­ley Cox and Mar­garet Cai.

Berke­ley Cox is cur­rent­ly a Part­ner in the Bris­bane office of King & Wood Mallesons. Berke­ley served as the Aus­tralian firm’s Chief Exec­u­tive Part­ner from 2017 to 2022 and pri­or to that led the Finan­cial Ser­vices Sec­tor and var­i­ous prac­tice groups.
As Chief Exec­u­tive, Berke­ley’s strat­e­gy focussed deeply on the links between well­be­ing and per­for­mance high­light­ing the impor­tance of cul­ture, team dynam­ics and sup­port from lead­er­ship in fos­ter­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal health and safe­ty in the work­place.

Mar­garet Cai is a Solic­i­tor in the Com­pe­ti­tion team at King & Wood Mallesons and a mem­ber of the Cor­po­rate Men­tal Health Alliance Australia’s Ear­ly in Career Com­mit­tee. In her pre­vi­ous role as the Pres­i­dent of the Aus­tralian Law Stu­dents’ Asso­ci­a­tion, Mar­garet over­saw the nation­al roll-out of Men­tal Health First Aid Train­ing for groups of law stu­dents and is par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in the ways men­tal health and promi­nent issues such as bul­ly­ing and sex­u­al harass­ment inter­sect in work­places and the wider com­mu­ni­ty.

The pro­ceed­ings will be opened by Chief Jus­tice James All­sop, Fed­er­al Court of Aus­tralia who has been instru­men­tal in sup­port­ing the Foundation’s mis­sion since his involve­ment in 2018. With news of the recent appoint­ment of Minds Count Direc­tor Jus­tice Jayne Jagot to the High Court of Aus­tralia, we will also be invit­ing Her Hon­our to intro­duce the lec­ture for 2022.

Our Q & A ses­sion will be host­ed by Jerome Doraisamy, Edi­tor at Lawyers Week­ly and Board Direc­tor of Minds Count.

We will also be announc­ing the recip­i­ents of the 2022 Minds Count Annu­al Awards, cel­e­brat­ing lead­er­ship and inno­va­tion in men­tal well­be­ing in legal work­places.

Pur­chase tick­ets here: https://lnkd.in/guUxjg‑q