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Lived experience mental health speaker

“Peta’s talk is one of the best I have heard. She is articulate, clear, poised and a tremendous storyteller. I would recommend Peta to any organisation looking to engage a speaker who is inspiring, relatable and encourages audiences to step off the hamster wheel and start practising self-care.”

- Testimonial excerpt from Mel Novak, Beyond Blue, Small Business Engagement Senior Adviser

Peta is a powerful storyteller who opens up workplace conversations on mental health.

As a lived experience speaker, she leaves no stone unturned when reliving her own mental health story of living through and recovering from acute burnout.

Audiences connect because she “keeps it real”

Through her experience on Beyond Blue’s speaker team, Peta is trained to confidently facilitate workplace mental health conversations.

She provides a lived experience perspective on panels and within the media to raise awareness of the personal impact of acute burnout.

What does Peta share in her keynote?

  • Her deeply personal burnout story as told in her book, My Beautiful Mess

  • Reflection of burnout signs, symptoms and asking for help

  • Recovery and insights into redesigning a more sustainable life

Corporate Keynote Service details:

  • 40 mins duration (in person or virtual)

  • 15-minute audience Q and A following is highly recommended (questions are common)

  • A sensitive content disclaimer is provided

To note: September and October book early and quickly due to RUOk? Day and Mental Health Awareness Month.

Please plan ahead to confirm your preferred date is available.

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A note from Peta

It’s a powerful step for an organisation to proactively introduce mental health conversations into their workplace through a lived experience speaker.

It’s a responsibility I don’t take lightly.

I’ve seen the power and benefit of shared vulnerability firsthand, time and time again.

It saves lives.

To support you with your planning, here are a few contexts where a lived-experienced speaker works incredibly well:

  • Raising awareness of signs and symptoms, and promoting your internal support pathways

  • Launching your psychosocial safety awareness campaign

  • Bringing a lived experience perspective to a panel to accompany a professional perspective

  • Offering practical tips and tricks to support your employees with their own mental health

  • Using the keynote context as a tool to start normalising mental health conversations in your workplace

I succeed when I support you with achieving your organisation’s objectives to create a more mentally healthy workplace.

Let’s chat. You’ve got this.

Peta

Happy Clients

…plus more. Hear what they’ve said below…

Her vulnerability, along with her sensitive and powerful delivery, leaves a lasting impact on her audience. Here's what they say...

  • Peta's session was honest and authentic. Multiple attendees said it was incredibly valuable and that Peta was so genuine. They said it's the best session on mental health they have attended. Peta also created a safe environment that allowed others to speak up and talk about their own lived experience.

    - Victoria Police

  • “Hard-hitting and thought-provoking and so relevant to the legal industry as well as the medical device industry. So important to encourage us all to reach out if we are struggling, or to anyone around us who may be struggling.”

    - Medibank, on BeyondBlue Speaking event

  • "Peta's real-world experiences and coaching have helped guide my career, improve my self-confidence, enhance customer engagement, and help me make effective leadership decisions. Peta's worksheets and analogies have been valuable, allowing me to think differently and approach challenges bravely."

    - Hisney N, Coaching client

  • “Peta was a real support when I engaged her as a coach during my career transition. She really empowered me to take the next steps & it felt like having a super support team on my side."

    -Tara Sharma, Coaching Client

  • “Your words have inspired me to work harder to create an environment for my team that allows them to flourish as whole people & not continually sacrifice their personal time & time with their families in the name of work.”

    -Regional Sales Leader, Medical Device Industry

  • "My Beautiful Mess is honest, earnest & refreshing. An incredibly brave look behind the corporate cloak. Thank you kindly for sharing & for the incredible value you have added to our team over the last few years. Our organisation is far better off having been under your care."

    - Brett Long, CEO Kieser, Consulting Client

  • "Working with Peta enabled me to get clarity on my brand & move forward with a streamlined focus.  I would highly recommend Peta's services to transform your brand & ignite its full potential."

    - Lyndall Mitchell, Coaching client, Founder of Aurora Spa & Bathhouse, ASPAR, Author & wellness coach

  • "We were looking for a new approach with a strong focus on customer engagement in a purpose & values driven framework.  Peta took the time to learn our business & truly understand our sales team & their challenges. Her approach has been transformative, & has provided a common yet highly adaptable sales strategy."

    - Gavin Fox-Smith, CEO, Omnigon Care Solutions, Team services client - Masterclass & coaching 

  • Our event was amazing! Peta was beyond informative and was a great storyteller. There wasn't a dry eye in the room!

    - Mantel Group

  • Peta was a great asset to our event panel. Her story fit in beautifully with the message that we were trying to portray, and an inspirational one at that.

    - Amanda Linton, CEO, Australian Institute of Certified Bookkeepers

  • "Thank you for sharing your time & experience with us. Your understanding of, and ability to express yourself on a topic we mostly fear or perhaps choose to ignore, is inspiring and illuminating.”

    -Driving Miss Daisy Franchising

  • “I have never felt more understood or could see myself in Peta's story. It really resonated and was a much-needed reminder that my identity is not my job or how well I do.”

    - Audience Member

  • “Peta's statements, "What impact do you want to make? This keeps you constantly connected to your values." & "If I let myself run on empty I have to accept there will be consequences". This makes me think of how I can make my own well-being plan more meaningful. Peta was so relatable when she spoke about what anxiety looks like in real life.”

    - Audience Member

  • “We had the privilege of hosting Peta Sitcheff with Beyond Blue for an online seminar on mental health and wellbeing specifically tailored for small business owners. Her insights were profound and relatable, drawing from personal experiences that resonated deeply with our viewers. Peta took the time to understand our small business owners needs and tailored the content to resonate with our audience. Peta was open and honest about her challenges and triumphs of managing mental health while on her entrepreneurial journey, which was refreshing, engaging and informative.  The feedback from our attendees was overwhelmingly positive which highlighting her authenticity, empathy, and actionable strategies. We are incredibly grateful for Peta’s and highly recommend her for any future engagements.”

    - Australia Massage and Myotherapy Association

  • “It was a fantastic session; Peta was really honest and raw. Her story was powerful and inspiring.  You could tell that she’s a really passionate writer by the way she went through it.  The team asked some great questions.  It was great to hear how the Beyond Blue support service has been used by Peta.  Tangible examples were beneficial, not just offering the services but sharing specifically how they were used. This is something we will definitely incorporate to our wider teams going forward. It was a really great addition to our session.  Something I think we will all reflect on and keep thinking about. It definitely changed how we conducted the rest of our meeting, relating to each other in a great way.”

    - Beyond Blue Premier Partner, Australia Post

  • “A lived experience story to begin our meeting felt very engaging & enriching. Always inspiring to hear someone be brave, show up & say here I am & this is my journey. Super relatable.”

    - VLine

  • “Peta was a great speaker. She made a difficult topic more relatable, while providing useful strategies for identifying early signs of burnout & acting on them. A very powerful talk.”

    - VLine

“I have been fortunate to attend several talks from professional speakers and have to say that Peta’s talk is one of the best I have heard. She is articulate, clear, poised and a tremendous storyteller. She takes her audience on a journey with her where we see the highs and lows of her mental health journey and feel heavily moved by her words because her personal experience is so powerful. As a woman with a long career history in corporate roles, I found Peta so easy to relate to. Her description of work-based stress, fatigue, burn-out and toxic corporate culture was so accurate and insightful. She reminded me that this is something so many people are experiencing day in, day out, contributing to the devastating mental health statistics we currently see. Peta’s story of recovery and getting better was uplifting and inspiring. She offered many simple, easy to implement strategies, and techniques that anyone could use to protect their mental health and wellbeing and put themselves in the best position possible to not only be ok but be happy, enriched and fulfilled. I would recommend Peta to any organisation looking to engage a speaker who is inspiring, relatable and encourages audiences to step off the hamster wheel and start practicing self-care.”

 - Mel Novak, Small Business Engagement Senior Adviser