MEDIA RELEASE: 20 JULY 2022 SuperFriend is pleased to announce the appointment of Darren Black as their new Chief Executive Officer, effective from Tuesday, 06 September 2022. Mr Black joins SuperFriend following his four-year tenure as CEO at OzHelp Foundation, a national workplace mental health and suicide prevention organisation. A...
SuperFriend urges investment in workplace wellbeing this World Day for Safety and Health at Work MEDIA RELEASE: 28 APRIL 2022 SuperFriend, Australia’s leading workplace mental health and wellbeing organisation, is urging businesses to invest in workplace mental health initiatives this World Day for Safety and Health at Work. The...
MEDIA RELEASE: 23 MARCH 2022 Leading workplace wellbeing not-for-profit organisation, SuperFriend, has today announced the departure of its Chief Executive Officer, Margo Lydon. Margo Lydon has been at the helm of SuperFriend for over eleven years and dedicated her tenure to creating positive change in mental health and suicide...
MEDIA RELEASE - 24 February 2022 In 2020, SuperFriend in partnership with PwC, started work on our long time goal of developing a practical tool workplaces could use based on our annual Indicators of a Thriving Workplace research framework. After a lot of hard work and dedication from our combined teams, the Thriving Workplace Index...
MEDIA RELEASE - 24 February 2022 SuperFriend, our staff and board members are deeply saddened by the passing away of our founder Helen Hewett this week. Helen was a visionary, envisaging the concept for SuperFriend in 2007, while Executive Officer of the Industry Funds Form. As a former CEO of Cbus Super, she had seen not only the...
New mental health research reveals a quarter of retail workers face customer abuse MEDIA RELEASE: 6 DECEMBER 2021 Whether you love or hate it, increased levels of activity at the shops at Christmas time is inevitable. But spare a thought for the thousands of retail workers who will face violence, verbal abuse and bullying from...
MEDIA RELEASE: 20 OCTOBER 2021 Part one of a significant research report into Australia’s workplace mental health and the impact of COVID-19 on future workplaces has been released this week and includes some startling results. The survey conducted by SuperFriend (a not-for-profit organisation that provides mental health insights and...
MEDIA RELEASE - 22 April 2021 Over the past few months, SuperFriend has been working alongside PwC Consulting Australia building and piloting a unique online workplace mental health tool. Designed to diagnose, benchmark and prioritise strengths and areas of opportunity, it is based on Australia’s largest and longest running...
MEDIA RELEASE: 20 APRIL 2021 Leading national workplace mental health and wellbeing organisation, SuperFriend, has appointed prominent business figure Elizabeth Proust, AO, as the new Chairperson to its Board of Directors. Bringing more than 30 years’ experience in senior leadership roles across Australia’s private and public sectors,...
SuperFriend welcomes the release of the highly anticipated final report from the Productivity Commission Inquiry into Mental Health, and commends the Commission for recognising the need for an improved mental health system with a broader approach to non-clinical settings such as workplaces, education, justice and community settings. ...