The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are both bound for Australia, and kind of for the same sort of thing – talking.
While Meghan Markle will spend her time in Sydney next month speaking at an event hosted by Jackie ‘O’ Henderson’s close friend Gemma O’Neill, Prince Harry will headline the inaugural InterEdge Psychosocial Safety Summit in Melbourne.
Organisers are framing the event as a major national conversation around workplace mental health, leadership and psychosocial safety.
The two-day summit, supporting Lifeline Narrm, will run from 15 to 16 April and bring together policymakers, practitioners, advocates and business leaders focused on psychological health in Australian workplaces.
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Organisers say the event comes as psychosocial safety becomes a more urgent issue for employers, with growing concern around burnout, distress and psychological injury across workplaces.
The summit will explore practical leadership strategies, organisational responsibility and evidence-based approaches to creating psychologically safe and high-performing work environments.
InterEdge Summit Speaker line-up
Harry will appear alongside a broader speaker line-up including Amy Cuddy, Jelena Dokic, Allan Sparkes, Hugh van Cuylenburg, David Hazlehurst and Amy Salmon.
Organisers frame summit as action-focused
Carrie Leeson
Carrie Leeson, chief executive officer of InterEdge Summit, said the speaker line-up reflects the scale of the issue facing employers nationally.
“We have reached a national inflection point. Burnout, distress and psychological injury are rising, and the cost – to individuals, families and communities – is profound.
“We’re honoured to welcome Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, to the InterEdge Summit, joining an exceptional line-up of leaders whose collective expertise reflects both the scale of the challenge and the urgency for action. This Summit is about moving beyond awareness and driving the meaningful change Australian workplaces desperately need.”
The summit is designed to move discussion beyond awareness into practical frameworks for organisational change, with sessions focused on communication, leadership capability and workplace culture.
Tickets for the event are being sold through Ticketek, with proceeds supporting Lifeline Narrm’s crisis support services, community education and suicide prevention work across Victoria.
The summit adds to Prince Harry’s ongoing public focus on mental health advocacy through his philanthropic work globally.
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