Our people

At the Collaborative Centre, our people bring together diverse expertise to support a stronger mental health and wellbeing system in Victoria.

Our teams include people with Lived and Living Experience, clinicians, researchers, educators, policy and public sector professionals, communicators and operational specialists. What brings us together is a shared commitment to learning, collaboration and reform shaped by the people and communities the system exists to serve.

This breadth of experience shapes how we work: how we listen, how we partner, how we translate evidence into practice, and how we support change across the system.

Our leadership team

Our leadership team brings together expertise in research, system reform, operations and workforce development, guided by a shared commitment to strengthening mental health and wellbeing across Victoria.

Professor Sarah Wilson, CEO, PhD, FAMHS, FASSA, GAICD (she/her)

Sarah is the Chief Executive Officer of the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing and an internationally recognised clinical neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. Her work in music neuroscience has shown how music can shape brain function, recovery and wellbeing. She is passionate about translating research into practice and bringing lived, clinical and research expertise together to create a mental health system that truly works for people.

Professor Sarah Wilson - Chief Executive Officer

Bradley Medcroft - Chief Operating Officer

Emma Cadogan - Director, Workforce Development

Matthew Corbett - Director, Workforce Development

Our workforce team

Our workforce teams work alongside the mental health and wellbeing workforce to strengthen capability, support practice improvement and create opportunities for shared learning.

Grounded in Lived and Living Experience leadership and informed by practice and research, this work supports connection across disciplines, settings and ways of knowing, helping translate learning into change.

Andrew O’Sullivan

Manager, Sector Capability

Molly Galea

Senior Workforce Development Facilitator

Laura Cunningham

Senior Workforce Development Facilitator

Michelle Pham

Statewide Psychology Educator

Emma Murrell

Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educator

Oliver McDougall-Fisher

Statewide Mental Health Enrolled Nurse Educator

Moisis Moisis

Statewide Mental Health Social Work Educator

Phoebe Williamson

Statewide Occupational Therapy Educator

Naomi Parkes

Statewide Mental Health Occupational Therapy Educator

Leanna Azoury

Manager, Sector Capability (Lived Experience)

Karen McKnight

Senior Workforce Development Facilitator - Family/Carer Perspective

Erin Hill

Senior Workforce Development Facilitator - Consumer Perspective

Leanne Burn

Manager, Lived and Living Experience Sector Partnerships

Melissa Mendoza

Lived and Living Experience Partnerships Officer

Our research, engagement and enabling team

Behind every program and partnership is a broader team supporting the foundations of the organisation.

Across research, engagement, planning, communications, governance and operations, our people help strengthen the relationships, infrastructure and ideas that support system reform.

Lived and Living Experience leadership is embedded in this work and central to how we deliver on our strategic and legislative responsibilities.