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Psychosocial safety is now a legal duty, not a nice to have.
Every Australian employer now has explicit, enforceable duties to identify, assess and control psychosocial hazards. The national picture completed when Victoria's psychological health regulations took effect on 1 December 2025.
In NSW, from 1 July 2026, the Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work Code of Practice becomes an enforceable benchmark. That means regulators no longer need to prove harm occurred, and falling short of the Code can itself be a breach.
Regulators have been clear: training alone is not enough, and tick a box wellbeing does not cut it.
Finance is a high pressure, high stakes, heavily scrutinised sector. Long hours, targets and performance pressure are genuine psychosocial hazards, not background noise. Workplace mental ill health costs Australian businesses up to 39 billion dollars a year in lost productivity, and mental health claims run far longer and cost far more than physical injury claims.
Mental Mate helps you treat this as what it is: a governance and risk issue, handled in a way that is practical, human and defensible.
Trusted in the room, across finance and beyond.
Not theory. Real sessions delivered to real finance teams, plus a track record that spans very different industries.
Signate Private Wealth
Four mental health awareness sessions, delivered via Employee Wellness Australia.
FBAA
Keynote speaker at the Finance Brokers Association of Australasia.
LIVIN
Long standing speaker with LIVIN, delivered to several financial services companies.
Liberty Financial
Upcoming session for LIVIN at Liberty Financial.
Built for finance teams, not a generic wellness deck.
Start with a keynote or build a full program. Every format is tailored to your sector and your people.
Keynotes and conference speaking
Lived experience, high impact and tailored to finance. Jodi has keynoted for the FBAA and spoken across the sector through LIVIN.
Mental Health Awareness
A practical, plain language introduction that helps your people recognise the signs and know what to do next.
Mental Health Essentials for Teams
A deeper skills session that gives teams the confidence to support each other and start the right conversation at the right time.
Lead Mental Health and Manage Psychosocial Risks Microcredential
An industry recognised microcredential that satisfies the National Microcredentials Framework. Leaders finish with a Certificate of Completion and a Microcredential Medallion, and the skills to spot the signs, respond well and manage psychosocial risk, aligned to the Code of Practice.
Psychosocial Risk Assessment
Our team assesses your psychosocial hazards and hands back an actionable report, so you can identify, assess and control risk as part of a well run approach to your WHS obligations.
Why Jodi lands where clinical or generic providers do not.
Most mental health training is either too clinical to connect, or too generic to stick. Jodi is neither. He speaks from lived experience of depression, anxiety and addiction, so the room leans in rather than switches off.
He is a trained facilitator and professional speaker, not a clinician, which means sessions are real, practical and human, never a lecture. And Jodi connects with any room. He has held the attention of a mine site crew and a boardroom in the same week. Your finance team is no different: smart, sceptical, time poor, and far more engaged when someone talks straight.
Real world experts
Delivered by experienced facilitators with lived experience, not read from a slide deck.
Practical and engaging
Interactive sessions built to drive commitment and immediate action, not academic theory.
Compliance and culture focused
Aligned to Australia's psychosocial safety standards, so you build culture and meet your obligations.
What people say after the room clears.
The content was presented in a way where the key takeaways were easily remembered. It wasn't too heavy but rather practical and allowed for immediate action taking.Jemma Eaton, Co-Owner and Director, Purple Playground
Jodi did a great job getting everyone involved and creating a sense of connection with the audience by incorporating his own story around his mental health challenges.Alexis Pocock, Workplace Relations, Clubs Queensland
Having someone facilitate the course who teaches from the platform of lived experience made it so much more impactful and made the day so enlightening.Mark Spong, Health, Safety and Wellbeing, Metro Tas
About Jodi Brown.
Jodi Brown is the founder and CEO of Mental Mate. For years he battled depression, anxiety and addiction while outwardly succeeding in business, until honest conversations and practical help turned his life around. He now turns that lived experience into training that gets through to people.
Jodi has spoken and trained across construction, mining, healthcare, government and financial services, and has presented to more than 14,000 people. He is a trained facilitator and professional speaker, not a clinician, and a senior facilitator with the LIVIN charity.
Mental Mate's programs are aligned with Australia's psychosocial safety standards and built around real stories, not academic theory. Jodi leads a hand picked team of skilled facilitators, and his own story is still what opens the room.
Send EnquiryLet's make mental health practical for your people.
Book a short discovery call and we will map out what a session or program could look like for your team. Or book Jodi to speak at your next conference, offsite or leadership day.
Prefer to talk now? Call 0421 750 353.