2027 International Aged Care & Disability Leadership Retreat
Description
Our biennial international leadership retreat for leaders and future leaders in the aged care and disability support space is on agaoin in March 2027.
Join us for 5 days of:
Workshops and Presentations from internationally recognised experts in the field
Networking events
Cultural tours and activities
This is your opportunity to have a seat at the table and gain valuable insights and learn directly from global leaders and people living with disability.
With leaders from the United Kingdom, United States and Australasia this retreat offers a truly global perspective on aged care and disability support.
Lineup
Dave Wilson-Wynne
An award-Winning Dementia Consultant, Educator & Advocate with two decades experience transforming dementia care across health and social care. Dave has been recommended by Professor David Sheard (Professor of Emotional Intelligence at York St John University) as the up and coming positive force in social care in the UK. Dave is known for translating evidence into practical, compassionate and human solutions. His work focuses on control, choice, consistency, and confidence, ensuring people living with a dementia are supported in ways that honour their identity and individuality. A trusted global voice in dementia care, David advises organisations, governments, and businesses, providing guidance on research, best practice, and policy. David was until recently the Senior Dementia Care Consultant at the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling with 18 years’ experience in both clinical and non-clinical roles. He was the founder of two dementia support organisations – Total Recall Memories Choir and Dementia Support Scotland and is the co-founder of Innovare Dementia Consultancy. Dave will be delivering a half day workshop during the retreat.
Natalie Seigal-Brown
Natalie Siegel-Brown is a global adviser on child rights, ageing, human rights and system reform. She works with UNICEF and governments across the Pacific to reform child protection, youth justice and online safety laws. Most recently, Natalie was Australia’s first ever Inspector-General of Aged Care, the country's independent overseer of the aged care system's administration, regulation and funding. Her work reframed ageing as a question of rights, dignity, connection and possibility, demonstrating that better lives and better economics are not competing goals. Across more than two decades, Natalie has led reform from every vantage point: as a statutory office-holder, commissioner, CEO, lawyer, government executive, board director and international adviser. She has served as a Commissioner at the Productivity Commission; Queensland Public Guardian; CEO of Child Wise; senior executive leading child protection, family violence and disability reform in New South Wales; and an independent inquirer into child deaths. Her career has been defined by difficult systems and the people most affected by them: She has led landmark legislative and policy reform across child protection, youth justice, violence prevention, disability, mental health, First Nations rights and justice, elder abuse and aged care. She has advised governments, led large public agencies, transformed an international safeguarding organisation and held institutions to account. A widely sought-after speaker and commentator, Natalie is known for bringing clarity, intellectual rigour and plain language to complex public policy challenges. Natalie began life as a lawyer, working with Aboriginal communities in violence and crime prevention. Her career includes roles at the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the Australian Human Rights Commission. Over the last two decades, Natalie has worked for communities and Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations from Cape York to the Kimberley. Natalie was a member of the Independent Truth and Treaty Body in Queensland. overseeing the establishment of a Treaty Council and the drafting of the Path to Treaty Act. She is a Board Director of Oxfam Australia and PLACE Australia and continues to work nationally and internationally to advance rights-based reform across generations. Natalie will be delivering a half day workshop during the retreat.
Michael Verde
American writer, speaker, documentary producer and teacher Michael Verde has spent the better part of the last 20 years peeling back the layers of judgement, assumption and stigma that society has placed on people living with dementia. He founded Memory Bridge in 2003. and to date Memory Bridge has connected over 8,000 people with and without dementia to each other in one-to-one relationships. In 2011, Memory Bridge was awarded Indiana University’s Educational Peace Prize to bring the Memory Bridge school initiative to South Africa. Michael speaks across the world on the subjects of literature, world religions, and communicating with people with dementia. A transformational perspective on relationships that is applicable to all within the ageing, dementia and disability space. “For Tom Kitwood, person-centred care meant you were caring for a person’s personhood. Personhood is not something that I have inside me. It’s not something that you have inside you. Personhood is something that you bestow on me and that I bestow on you,” Michael will be delivering a half day workshop during the retreat.
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