Lucy Byrne is a multifaceted professional blending roles as facilitator, trainer, adviser, coach, author and non executive director who works with governments, not for profits, educational institutions and the corporate sector to build healthier organisations.

As Tasmania's only Certified™ Professional Facilitator (CPF) with the International Association of Facilitators, and one of just 13 across Australia, Lucy is recognised for designing engaging, inclusive and practical workshops that bring people together to solve complex challenges, challenge conventional thinking and create meaningful, future focused outcomes.

With more than two decades in public service creating healthier communities, stronger partnerships and better systems, Lucy co founded a successful consultancy that began delivering community health and wellbeing initiatives before growing into a national capacity building business supporting organisations across Australia.

Drawing on this experience, Lucy has developed her own suite of proprietary tools and frameworks, combining evidence based research, best practice models and practical experience to help organisations strengthen governance, leadership, strategy, culture and community outcomes. Her approach balances contemporary thinking with practical application, championing locally responsive, co designed and future focused solutions.

As a dual graduate and award winner of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Lucy is a respected governance adviser and experienced non executive director with a passion for contemporary governance. She has published peer reviewed research, presented at international conferences and is known for her ability to simplify complexity, ask thoughtful questions and create practical solutions.

Whether working with an individual, a board, leadership team or community, Lucy is driven by one simple belief: organisations can achieve outstanding results while making a positive difference. Through governance, facilitation, coaching and strategic advice, she helps organisations strengthen capability, improve performance and create lasting impact for the people and communities they serve.

QUALIFICATIONS, AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS:

• Governance for Social Impact - Centre for Social Impact - 2026

• Multicap Tasmania - Non-Executive Board Director 2025 - current

• Victoria University - Alumni Award WINNER - Professional Achievement - 2025

• Certified™ Professional Facilitator designation, International Association of Facilitators - 2025

• Respect@Ahpra Workplace Training – Understanding and preventing bullying, harassment, discrimination, and victimisation - June 2025

• The Players: Board Diversity, Australian Sports Commission, 2025

• Safe Language: National Suicide Prevention Charter, Every mind, June 2024

• Safeguarding Children Advanced Training: Reporting Obligations, Department for Education, Children and Young People, Tasmania, June 2024

• Healthcare Redesign MOOC, University of Tasmania, February 2024

• Information Management and Cyber Security: Internet Security and your role - AHPRA/KnowBe4/Iinduct - 2023

• Board Leadership: Shaping the organisation and system - McKinsey and Company -  2023

• Australian Institute of Company Directors ‘Emerging Director Award’ 2022

• Moon-moong-gak Cultural Training - PIC/PWC - 2022

• Grassroots Governance - Alkas Consulting - 2022

• Rural Alive and Well - Vice-President, Chair Governance, Finance Risk and Audit Committee, National Expansion Committee, 2021 - current

• Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency - Tasmanian Board of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, Non-Executive Board Director, 2021 – 2025

• Hockey Tasmania - Non-Executive Board Director, Chair of Governance Committee, 2020 – 2022

• headspace Launceston Consortium - Chair, 2018 - 2022

• Australian Institute of Company Directors – Governance Foundations for NFP Directors – August 2021

• Trauma Informed Practise 2020

• Mental Health First Aid 2020

• Master of Biomedical Science (Research), 2018

• Health Entrepreneur Award – Launceston Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence awards, 2018

• Northern Tasmania Development Corporation - Board Director for Health, 2017 - 2020

• Launceston Chamber of Commerce Community and Health Industry Committee - Committee Member, 2018 - current

• Australian Institute of Company Directors, Company Directors Course (Graduate & Member), 2017

• Managing Mental Health in the Workplace, 2017

• Tasmanian Leaders Program, 2011

• Telstra Business Woman of the Year Finalist, 2015

• Women Sport and Recreation Tasmania, Non-Executive Board Director, 2012 – 14

• Advanced Diploma of Business Management, 2007

• Bachelor of Arts in Recreation Management, 2000

• PCYC Non-Executive Board Director, 2003

• Health Coaching – Health Coaching Australia 2007

• Capable Communities – Community Development for Health Professionals – Jim Cavaye 2007

• The International Physical Activity and Public Health Course – University of Sydney 2008

• Cert. III in Fitness - Fitness Australia 2000

• WWVP 907522247

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• International Association Facilitators: 2025

• Australian Institute of Company Directors: 2017 – current

• Women on Boards: 2019 – current

• Our Community: Institute of Community Directors: 2021 – current

• Launceston Chamber of Commerce

• Tasmanian Council of Social Services

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

• Byrne, L., Ogden, K. and Auckland, S. (2014) Knowledge in Action - Engaging Australia, Chapter 2, Cambridge Scholars Newcastle pp. 35-52.

• Byrne L, Ogden K, Lee S, et al. Mixed-method evaluation of a community-wide physical activity program in Launceston, Australia, Health Promotion Journal of Australia, doi: 10.1002/hpja.241; 2019.

• Byrne L. Mixed methods analysis of a multi-strategy, community-wide physical activity intervention: Active Launceston, MBiomedSc (Research) thesis, 2018. University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania.

• Williams A, Byrne L, Strieter L, Watson G, Arena R. Translating Research Findings into Community Interventions. Considerations for Design and Implementation: A Case Based Approach. In: Bird SR, editor. Research Methods in Physical Activity and Health. London and New York: Taylor and Francis Group; 2019. p. 350.

• Byrne L. Active Tasmania: How an Australian University Improves Community Health and Well-Being. Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Promoting Universities & Colleges; 2015; Kelowna, British Columbia. University of British Columbia.

• Byrne L, Ogden K, Allen P. Active Launceston: How effective is a partnership project in increasing physical activity in a community setting?  Proceedings of the Be Active National Physical Activity Conference; 2014; Canberra, Australia. 

• Byrne L. Active Launceston. Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Obesity; 2010; Stockholm, Sweden: Wiley Publishers.

• Byrne L. Active Launceston. Proceedings of the AIESEP (International Association for PE in Higher Education) International Congress; 2009; Florida, USA.  AIESEP.

CLIENTS AND PROJECTS

• headspace National Forum ‘Healthy Governance’ workshop 2026

• Private Forests Tasmania ‘Healthy Governance’ workshop 2026

• Australian Dental Association Tasmania Board Induction workshop 2026

• Board Pro New Zealand Governance Webinars (N=2) 2026

• Office of the Tasmanian Disability Commissioner ‘Healthy Values’ Workshop 2026

• BDO Accountants ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop 2026

• Toosey Aged and Community Care - Governance and Strategy Review Workshop, 2026

• BoardPro Webinar - To Pay or Not to Pay, 2026

• Royal Flying Doctors Service ‘Healthy Leadership’ workshop, 2026

• Launceston City Mission ‘Healthy Funding’ workshop’, 2026

• Anglicare, ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop, 2026

• Australian Dental Association, ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop, 2026

• Launceston Health Hub, ‘Healthy Values’ Workshop, 2026

• Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drugs Council (ATDC) ‘Healthy Leadership’ workshop 2025

• Launceston Chamber of Commerce ‘Healthy Governance’ Workshop 2025

• Tamar Natural Resource Management ‘Healthy Governance’ Workshop 2025

• Cancer Council Tasmania Board Review 2025

• Karinya Youth Services ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop 2025

• RSPCA Tasmania ‘Healthy Leadership’ Workshop 2025

• Tas Woman in Ag - ‘Healthy Governance’ Workshop 2025

• Australian Dental Association - Tas ‘Healthy Governance’ Workshop 2025

• Cancer Council Tasmania ‘Healthy Leadership’ Workshop 2025

• Magnolia Place Women’s Shelter ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop 2025

• LaTrobe University RISE2SkinCancer Familiarisation and team building workshops Bendigo 2025

• Central Coast Council Sport Facility Planning Workshops 2025

• Launceston Health Hub Well aHEAD Mental Health Service ‘Independent Review’ 2025

• Tasmanian Dairy Industry Authority ‘Healthy Governance’ Workshop 2025

• Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs Council ‘Verging Values’ Workshop 2025

• Central Coast Mental Health Alliance - Future Planning Workshop 2025

• Rural Youth Tasmania Members ‘Healthy Governance’ Workshop 2025

• JCP Youth ‘Healthy Governance’ Workshop 2025

• ReTHINK Waste Education Officers 2-day Retreat Cradle Coast Authority 2024

• DPAC ‘Leading Together’ - Women’s Leadership for women in male dominated sectors 2024

• LaTrobe University Rural Research Centre ‘Healthy Planning Retreat’ 2024

• FarmSafe Australia ‘Healthy Planning’ workshop 2024

• Harcourts Northern Midlands ‘Healthy Leadership’ Workshop 2024

• Down Syndrome Tasmania ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop 2024

• Magnolia Place ‘Healthy Governance’ Workshop 2024

• Toosey Aged and Community Care ‘Healthy Governance’ Workshop 2024

• Toosey Aged and Community Care ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop 2024

• Dulverton Waste Management strategic review and ‘Healthy Planning’ workshops (x3) stakeholder interview (x6) 2024

• Dental Surgery Newstead ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop 2024

• Dental Surgery Newstead ‘Healthy Governance’ Workshop 2024

• City of Launceston Road Safety Project 2022 - 2024

• Rae and Partnerships ‘Healthy Leadership’ Workshop 2024

• Rethink Waste Tasmania ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop 2023

• Rae and Partners Lawyers ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop 2023

• UTAS CAPITOL project, Healthy and Connected Communities, Devonport, 2023

• StLukesHealth: Active Workplaces, female leadership forum, Storytelling Workshop, SNUG governance and user testing, SLH Tasmania Health Report (x2), multiple survey developments, state of our health response, 2016 - 2023

• Workforce Australia, Be Heard, Remembered and Resilient, May and Nov 2023

• City of Launceston, Active Launceston, Community-wide Health & Wellbeing Initiative, 2008 – 2023

• City of Hobart, Healthy Hobart, Community-wide Health & Wellbeing Initiative, 2016 – 2023

• Launceston Medical Centre, Primary Care Innovation, WellaHEAD project, 2023

• Asthma Australia, Tasmania Discovery Consultation Project, 2023

• Bellevue Accountants and Advisors ‘Verging Values’ Session, 2023

• Healthy Shed 2018, 2019, 2021 (Multiple Community Partners)

• City of Launceston, Healthy and Connected Communities, Northern Suburbs of Launceston, 2023

• Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association, Membership Strategy workshop, 2023

• Rural Youth of Tasmania, ‘Healthy Governance’ workshop, 2023, 2024

• Rural Alive and Well Inc. Strategic Planning workshop, 2023

• Department of Education, Children and Young People, B4 Early Years Story Tellers Project 2019 – 2023

• East Launceston Junior Football Club, Strategic Planning workshop, 2023

• Healthy and Connected Communities, public online training, 2021, 22, 23

• Drug Education Network, Healthy Pregnancy, Community Storytelling Project, 2022

• PCYC, Launceston Organisational Restructure Review 2022

• City Mission, Mission Wellbeing 2021, 22

• City Mission, Smoking Cessation Support 2022

• Huon Valley Council, Healthy and Connected Communities, Huon Valley, 2022

• Ten Lives, ‘Healthy Governance’ workshop, 2022

• City Mission, ‘Healthy and Connected Communities’, 2022

• George Town Council, Healthy George Town Health & Wellbeing initiative, 2019 – 2021

• Calvary, Team Building and Leadership Days, 2021, 22

• Sustainable Timber Tasmania, Workplace Health and Wellbeing Project, 2019 - 2021

• Youth Network of Tasmania, Board Review, 2021

• Engage Therapies, ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop,2021

• Flourish Tasmania, ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop, 2021

• City of Launceston and Regional Councils Sports Facility Plan procurement process 2021

• City of Launceston and Regional Councils Health and Wellbeing Strategy framework 2021

• Tasmanian Health Service, Traumatic Brain Injury Referral Pathway Workshops, 2019 & 20

• Corner Stone Youth Services, ‘Healthy Planning’ Workshop, 2020