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Fleur Heazlewood is a leadership expert and founder of the Blueberry Institute. With over 20 years corporate leadership experience, she is known for building positive performance cultures that deliver both employee wellbeing and commercial results. Fleur partners with CEOs, HR and leaders to create healthy, resilient and productive workplaces. She has trained and mentored over 1000 people in positive leadership, mental health mastery and future-fit resilience building. Fleur s experience is backed by extensive qualifications, which include a Masters of Coaching Psychology, Bachelor of Commerce and Company Directors Certificate. She manages her own wellbeing through yoga and mindfulness meditation and is qualified to teach both practices.
'Every leader should have this book in their toolkit. If you manage people and find the topic of mental health overwhelming but increasingly important, then this book is full of sound advice, relatable stories and easy-to-digest, practical ways to help you and your team feel supported as you navigate these conversations. Fleur's solid leadership background and lived experience of managing the mental wellbeing of herself and her teams, combined with her award-winning writing, means this is a book I will certainly turn to again and again.' Sonja Furniss, Senior People Program Manager 'Leading Wellbeing really speaks to me. Fleur is so honest and real in sharing her journey and exploring how to manage those difficult mental health conversations while having strategies in place to protect your own wellbeing. Her approach to leading and promoting wellbeing is inspiring. This is a great book that really made me stop and think about how to manage my own wellbeing while supporting others.' Narelle Wallace, Director, Australian Public Service 'All people leaders need to be competent engaging their people in mental health conversations. Mental health conversations are peppered with many imagined and real pitfalls, and without a map to navigate those pitfalls it's easier to avoid the conversations that need to be had. Leading Wellbeing is the map; so, thanks to Fleur, every worker can engage in authentic mental health conversations to help boost wellbeing and productivity at work.' Eugene McGarrell, Health Executive (Mental Health Service Development and Performance) and Board Director. 'Leading Wellbeing contains a wealth of practical guidance for supporting the mental health of individuals and teams in a post-pandemic world. Whether you are leading a team of high-flying lawyers or a kids' sport team, the framework and guidance of Leading Wellbeing will make you more effective by improving your capacity to support and nurture others.' Barry Hemsley, Assistant Director, Australian Public Service 'This book is an amazing resource for those in need of a practical and actionable guide to identifying and supporting those they lead who may be struggling with mental health.' Colleen O'Connor, Head of HR
