Dr Louise Byrne is a leading international expert on Lived and Living Experience, acknowledged as a thought-leader in workforce development and the change management strategies required to build authentic, effective and impactful Lived Experience (Peer) workforces.
Learn more about Louise and the Team in our ‘About‘ section.
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Evidence based and informed by a a 15 year program of international research, aligned to the Australian National Lived Experience (Peer) Workforce Development Guidelines.
 Lived Experience Training includes training for and about Lived Experience workers, with a particular focus on:
Understanding and defining lived experience, Lived Expertise and our unique discipline (literacy building)
Organisational readiness and workplace cultural change management
Practical understanding, steps and tools for employers, HR/People and Culture, colleagues, allies and Lived Experience workers
 Capacity building for emerging and existing Lived Experience leaders and active allies.
Lived Experience workforce development: Practical steps and tools
Workplace cultural change management strategies
Defining Lived Expertise and the Lived Experience discipline
Facilitating Lived Experience leadership and meaningful co-production
Enhancing role clarity and fidelity to Lived Experience principles, values and practice
Translation and implementation of research findings, including creation of accessible, plain language summaries, tools and evidence informed resources.
Who We work with...
What People Love...
"The most exciting evidence-based lived experience/peer employment best practice model for employing these workers in multidisciplinary services to ever be launched in Australia. This is a must read for all employers and managers."
Louise AlexanderExecutive Manager, Strategic Infrastructure Projects at Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
"Thank you so much for sharing your powerful speech with me. A brilliant call to genuine action to address these barriers, backed up by a call to develop our workforce to scale. I love the way you bring allies into the mix in an open and genuine way. I hope this will be a catalyst for the growth and diversity of the LE workforce"
Tim HeffernanDeputy Mental Health Commissioner, N.S.W. Mental Health Commission
An inspirational and in many ways practical map and manifesto for our times....setting us all a challenge and an agenda. Lots of food for thought, re power and expertise, whose voices are heard & heeded, Lived Experience leadership Vs. Co-leadership, the healing power, effectiveness and validity of shoulder-to-shoulder sharing of lived experience and traditional knowledges."
Professor Alan RosenProfessorial Fellow, Australian Health Services Research Institute [AHSRI], University of Wollongong, NSW
Dr Louise Byrne & Associates acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands upon which we live and work nationwide. We acknowledge past and present Elders, their cultural knowledge and deep connection to land, sea and community. We pay our deep and heartfelt respects to these essential leaders and thank them for their guidance