As a highly experienced Speaker, Workplace Trainer, Teacher, and Student Wellbeing Coordinator, Donna, is deeply passionate about suicide prevention and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing. She has delivered hundreds of workshops to thousands of individuals in venues right across Australia and also in New Zealand. These workshops have been conducted in the corporate arena, community venues and in countless primary and secondary schools.

A highly accomplished speaker, Donna presented at 2015 Suicide Prevention Australia Conference and the IEU Women’s Conference in 2016. In 2017 Donna delivered workshops as a presenter at the Positive Schools Conference, which travelled to Brisbane, Fremantle, Melbourne and Sydney. In 2018 and 2019 Donna presented at the Propsych: Mental Health in Schools Conference in Sydney and Melbourne consecutively. In 2019 she presented a keynote and workshops at the PDHPETA (Personal Development Health and Physical Education Teachers Association) Conference in Wagga Wagga and she also presented a Keynote as part of the Human Connections: Accidental Counsellor Online Conference.

Donna has been featured on ABC radio, the Sydney Morning Herald and local Macarthur media. Donna has worked for Lifeline as a Crisis Supporter, assisting callers who ring to access this service. She is the author of the young adult fiction novel, Awakening Sebastian. As a secondary educator, Donna specialises in working with teachers, bringing her deep knowledge and experience of the school context into her training courses.