Dr Jodie Wilson (she/her) helps organisations become places where people can do their best work as their whole, authentic selves. She designs and delivers keynotes, and workshops, as well as programs on psychological safety, wellbeing, neuro-inclusion, disability and leading through change. Her clients span veterinary practice, federal government and higher education, and have included the University of Melbourne, YMCA Queensland, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Melbourne School of Design, the University of Sydney, Greencross Vets and Melbourne Cat Vets.

Jodie holds a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Wellbeing Science, and is an internationally recognised and published autism researcher. She is currently undertaking research at the intersection of autism and wellbeing at La Trobe University’s Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre. Jodie’s practice is evidence-informed, guided by lived experience, and sensitive to context.

Jodie came to this work by an unusual route. A second-generation veterinarian from Queensland, Jodie built a multi-award-winning career in emergency and critical care at Australia’s busiest small animal emergency hospital, and served as President and media spokesperson of the Australian Veterinary Association QLD Division. When an acquired physical disability limited her ability to continue in clinical practice, she made the transition from ECC medicine to her other passion — understanding human beings and how to help them thrive.

As a diagnosed autistic and ADHD individual with a late-life acquired physical disability, Jodie has lived experience of what overcoming cognitive and physical challenge really looks like. She is a dedicated disruptive influence, and constantly curious about the world, and how to make it a place where human beings can flourish. She is an accomplished activist, advocate, speaker and writer across a number of intersecting domains, including positive psychology, neurodiversity, LGBTQIA+ issues, disability, workplace mental health, end-of-life, and parenting. Jodie finds the intersectionality of the world exciting — she thrives in intersectional places.

As a change-maker, Jodie has experience embedding wellbeing in large organisations, transforming workplace culture, facilitating positive deviance, and designing psychological safety programs that allow every team member to thrive. Her work is uniquely informed by having been both the practitioner and the person the system wasn’t built for.

Jodie is also an experienced life coach, registered as a provider with the federal government’s JobAccess program, specialising in workplace thriving, managing change and life transitions. Her passion belongs to the people who make up her communities, and her mission is to move the individuals and organisations she works with from surviving to thriving — with particular care for neurodivergent teens and young adults, people living with disability, and the veterinary professionals she came up alongside. Her coaching philosophy is to journey with her clients toward their best selves, coaching them to travel with courage and curiosity, and without shame.