Recognise
Notice the roles, patterns, pressures and adaptive habits that pull people away from their own needs, values and judgement.
Tina McGlinn | Speaker, Educator & Mental Health Leader
Conversations That Change What People Notice
Keynotes, workshops and training that give people practical language for self-abandonment, identity, leadership and recovery.
Tina combines original frameworks, lived experience and more than 25 years across health, mental health and leadership.
More than an inspiring story
Tina gives audiences language they can use.
Tina McGlinn speaks about the patterns that quietly disconnect people from their voice, judgement and identity.
Her work explores Self-Abandonment™, Survival Identity™ and Identity Safety™ across life, leadership, workplaces and recovery.
She brings together original thinking, powerful storytelling, lived experience and senior mental health leadership without making the room feel heavy, clinical or buried in corporate waffle.
Audiences leave with clearer language, sharper recognition and practical ideas they can apply after the applause ends.
The Reclaim Framework™
Recognise. Reclaim. Rise.
A clear structure for understanding how people lose connection with themselves and what helps them reclaim voice, choice and identity.
Reclaim
Rebuild voice, boundaries, self-trust and the ability to make choices that reflect who you are.
Rise
Apply that clarity to life, leadership, workplace culture and the decisions that shape what happens next.
Signature keynotes
Choose the conversation your audience needs.
Every keynote is adapted to the audience, setting and purpose of the event.
The Cost of Self-Abandonment
How capable people learn to silence themselves, organise their lives around others and lose trust in their own judgement. This keynote makes the pattern visible and shows what reclaiming choice looks like.
Leading Without Losing Yourself
A practical examination of identity, boundaries, responsibility and the hidden cost of leadership cultures that reward constant self-sacrifice.
The Cost of Silence
A grounded conversation about voice, identity and what repeated silence can cost individuals, services and communities.
Who You Are After Life Changes You
What happens when illness, adversity, loss or major change disrupts the identity you knew, and why recovery involves more than returning to your old life.
Workshops & training
Practical sessions built around your people.
Tina develops interactive workshops and training for organisations that want more than a surface-level wellbeing conversation.
- Recognising self-abandonment at work and in leadership
- Identity safety, voice and psychological safety
- Leadership without self-sacrifice
- Trauma-informed and recovery-oriented practice
- Lived experience leadership and organisational responsibility
- Identity after trauma, illness, loss or major change
- Rebuilding self-trust, boundaries and choice
Designed for:
Sessions can be delivered as keynotes, workshops, panels, staff development, leadership training or customised programs.
- Mental health and community organisations
- Health services and recovery-focused programs
- Leadership and management teams
- Corporate wellbeing and people teams
- Government, councils, PHNs and NGOs
- Women’s leadership events
- Domestic violence and cancer support services
- Conferences, forums and awareness campaigns
Why book Tina?
Depth without the bloody waffle.
Tina brings a rare combination of lived experience, frontline understanding, senior leadership and original thinking.
- More than 25 years across nursing, mental health and community services
- More than 10 years leading people and complex services
- Original frameworks that make difficult patterns easier to recognise
- Storytelling that supports the idea instead of replacing it
- Practical insight for individuals, leaders and organisations
- Warm, direct delivery with humour where it belongs
- Trauma-aware presentations without sensationalising lived experience
Speaking experience
Across communities, services and leadership spaces.
- Blue Mountains 16 Days of Activism Mayoral Breakfast
- Sydney Regional Aboriginal Corporation Domestic Violence Training
- Sydney Regional Aboriginal Corporation Pink Ribbon Morning Tea
- Penrith Women’s Walk & Talk Domestic Violence Awareness Event
- Penrith Women’s Walk & Talk Breast Cancer Awareness Event
- Rise To Greatness 2026
Speaking, workshops & training packages
Built to fit the room and the reason you are gathering.
Every engagement is tailored to your audience, event format, objectives and desired outcomes.
Keynotes
Clear, memorable ideas for conferences and major events.
Workshops
Interactive sessions that move from insight into application.
Training
Practical learning for teams, leaders and service providers.
Panels & Forums
Grounded lived and professional insight for important conversations.
Available Australia-wide and online. Investment available on request.
Let’s create a conversation people remember.
Tell us about your audience, event and what you want people to understand, question or take away.
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