Margo Lydon

Margo has influenced real-world reform in mental health and suicide prevention for over two decades, specialising in workplace mental health and wellbeing.

Margo is the Director of Workplace Mental Health Advisory, a boutique advisory helping organisations and governments navigate and respond to the complexity of workplace mental health, psychosocial safety and wellbeing, delivering positive impact for people and the business.

Margo also contracts to the Wellbeing Outfit as their Chief Mental Health & Wellbeing Advisor - a specialist consultancy, partnering with industry and organisations in Australia and globally to drive cultures of high performance and high wellbeing.

Margo is the independent Chair of the National Mental Health Commission’s Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance - an Alliance of national organisations from the business, union, community, and government sectors leading change to promote and create mentally healthy workplaces. A four-year strategic project, heavily involving the Alliance has been the development of the National Workplace Initiative - a nationally consistent approach to workplace mental health and wellbeing to benefit every Australian business, all workers and strengthen our communities.

Margo is an Honorary Fellow within the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Margo is also a non-executive director on the Shared Value Project Australia Board. Shared Value is a business strategy, developed by Harvard Business School, that solves social issues, profitably.

Margo is currently a Sector Advisor for Corporate Mental Health Alliance Australia and also for Roses in the Ocean – Australia’s peak organisation empowering people with a lived experience of Suicide to share their voice and bring their unique insights and wisdom to prevent suicide.

Until recently, Margo was CEO for SuperFriend; a position she held for 12 years successfully leading the growth from start-up to a national organisation at the forefront of workplace mental health and wellbeing in Australia. Prior, she was an executive leader for 10-years at the Oak House – Australia’s largest private outpatient facility treating people with eating disorders.

Margo holds a Master of Science, Positive Organization Development and Change, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, and a Bachelor of Business Degree from the University of Queensland. Margo was a finalist in the 2019 Telstra Business Women’s Awards (Victoria) in the “For Purpose and Social Enterprise” category.