Self Leadership: Mental Health, Mindset & Doing What Matters
Marny specialises in enhancing mental agility, helping clients succeed both personally and professionally. She empowers individuals to expand their psychological capacity, enabling them to achieve their goals, transform their potential, and manage life’s inevitable challenges. Marny has worked with leading organizations, including Chevron, BUPA, Murdoch University, NAB Wealth, Westpac, and Synergy, offering her expertise to drive success.
She has worked across a wide range of roles over the past two decades, including designing and implementing government health-prevention programs, training professionals in cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches across Australia and as a psychologist in private practice for 10+ years. She has also taught at several Australian universities as a sessional academic, delivering psychology units to emerging practitioners.
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Self Leadership: Mental Health, Mindset & Doing What Matters
Success starts with the way we lead ourselves. Explore the connection between mindset, emotional wellbeing, confidence, and personal responsibility, while addressing how stress, anxiety, and burnout can impact performance and relationships. Participants gain practical insights into managing emotions, building resilience, and focusing on actions that align with both personal and professional goals.
Self Leadership: Mental Health, Mindset & Doing What Matters
Burnout to Brilliant: Bouncing Back from Burnout
Burnout affects more than energy levels - it impacts motivation, focus, relationships, and overall wellbeing. Learn how to recognise the warning signs, understand common workplace stressors, and apply practical strategies for recovery and prevention. The focus is on restoring balance, rebuilding energy, and creating sustainable habits that support long-term performance.
Burnout to Brilliant: Bouncing Back from Burnout
Problematic Personalities: How to Deal with Difficult People
Every workplace has personalities that challenge communication, collaboration, and culture. Discover the psychology behind difficult behaviours and practical tools for handling conflict with professionalism and confidence. Problematic Personalities: How to Deal with Difficult People
Participants learn strategies to improve emotional intelligence, communicate more effectively, and maintain respectful, productive interactions in challenging situations.
Empathy in Action: The Heart of Transformational Leadership
Strong leadership is built on trust, connection, and understanding. Discover how empathy strengthens communication, workplace culture, and team performance while helping leaders create environments where people feel supported, valued, and motivated to perform at their best.
Empathy in Action: The Heart of Transformational Leadership
Play: Benefits of Play & Humour in the Workplace
A positive workplace culture thrives on connection, creativity, and balance. Explore how playfulness and humour can reduce stress, encourage innovation, and strengthen workplace relationships, while creating healthier, more engaged, and more productive teams.
Play: Benefits of Play & Humour in the Workplace
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Equal parts empathetic, engaging, and empowering; Marny Lishman is a remarkable speaker. Her presentations cast a much-needed magnifying glass on mental health, clarifying the common ways we ... keep reading Amy Clark
I cannot recommend Marny highly enough. We engaged Marny to work with our team over a period of great uncertainty and change. Marny conducted a workshop for our leadership team focused on Building Resilience In Times of Uncertainty. The leadership team responded so positively to the workshop they requested it be adapted for all staff and that Marny did. Feedback from staff was consistently positive. Marny is a pleasure to work with, she takes the time to really understand your business needs or challenges, her breadth of experience, coupled with a natural ability to adapt to a variety of audiences and topics makes her a great business partner.
