Allied Health Assistant (AHA) Day 2025

The theme of this year’s event will be Stronger Together: The Power of Collaboration

Collaboration is at the heart of an Allied Health Assistant’s role. Whether working alongside allied health professionals, patients, families, or community organisations, AHAs bridge gaps in care, ensuring seamless support and better outcomes. Through teamwork, communication and collaboration, AHAs help create a more connected and effective healthcare system, empowering both the individuals they support and the teams they work with every day.

• Registrations now open until 12:00pm Monday 10 November via Eventbrite
• Final Program can be viewed HERE
• Keynote speakers:
  • AM: Caleb Rixon, Genyus Network
  • PM: Cameron Schwab, designCEO

Registered attendees can find further information about how to join via your Eventbrite Online Event Page. Two test sessions will be run on Tuesday the 11th of November.

Keynote Speaker: Caleb Rixon, Genyus Network

We are delighted to announce the morning keynote speaker for our event: Caleb Rixon from the Genyus Network.

Caleb Rixon brings a unique perspective to the allied health community, combining his lived experience as a young stroke survivor with years of advocacy, creative leadership, and professional collaboration across the health sector. As a 2025 Westpac Social Change Fellow and Board Director at Occupational Therapy Australia, Caleb is passionate about empowering clinicians to create safe, meaningful spaces for themselves and those they serve.

In this keynote, Caleb will share his deeply personal journey through adversity and recovery, offering practical, evidence-informed strategies for building resilience, reframing challenges, and fostering trustworthy partnerships in healthcare. Join Caleb for an inspiring, actionable session designed to help you thrive as a clinician and as a person, no matter what challenges the system throws your way.

Learn more about Caleb:

Caleb Rixon’s journey from surviving a life-altering stroke at 24 to becoming a leading international health advocate redefines what’s possible after trauma. As founder and Chief Vision Officer of Genyus Network and Chair of Genyus Foundation, Caleb leads innovative initiatives that empower people affected by stroke, brain injury, and disability worldwide.

A passionate champion for embedding lived experience in health, research, and education, Caleb collaborates with prestigious universities to co-design curriculum and amplify survivor voices. His governance experience includes serving as a Board Director for Occupational Therapy Australia, where he helps shape national policy and practice, and advises on multiple sector-wide projects.

Caleb’s powerful storytelling has reached audiences on the ABC, SBS Insight, and Network 7’s House of Wellness, and his peer-reviewed publication in Brain Impairment for Cambridge University Press continues to influence the field. Internationally, he has presented at the UK Stroke Forum and delivered the opening MainStage keynote at Johnson & Johnson’s HealtheVoices 10th anniversary conference in the USA. He is a sought-after speaker for organisations including TAC, Bupa, L’Oréal Australia, Health Justice Australia, and the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment.

Recognised as a 2025 Westpac Social Change Fellow, Caleb stands at the forefront of a global movement, transforming lived experience into leadership and inspiring a new generation of survivors and professionals to reclaim their narratives and drive systemic change.

www.genyusnetwork.com

Keynote Speaker: Cameron Schwab, designCEO

We are delighted to announce the afternoon keynote speaker for our event: Cameron Schwab, CEO & Founder of designCEO.

Cameron was appointed CEO of the famous Richmond Football Club at age 24, the youngest in the history of the AFL, having cut his teeth as a successful Recruiting Manager at the Melbourne Football Club. He then spent the next 25 years as the CEO of three AFL clubs, Richmond, Melbourne and Fremantle, when those clubs were at their lowest ebb, playing a central leadership role in major transformations whilst founding enduring legacies. He is the second longest-serving CEO in the modern game.

Over the past decade, he has channelled his deep experience in leadership in professional sport and business, mentoring CEOs, AFL Coaches, senior and emerging leaders and their teams across many industry sectors. He explores the deep personal and professional challenges he faced as a leader with openness and generosity to create connection, building on the insights and wisdom from a fully-lived leadership experience. He holds an MBA and Master of Marketing from the Melbourne Business School and has completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at the Harvard Business School.

He is also a writer, artist, and illustrator studying fine arts at the Victorian College of the Arts.

https://www.design.ceo/

Please email any enquiries to MonashHealthAHADay@monashhealth.org.