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What happens when wellbeing science lands in a real life, and ripples outward into the rooms our graduates walk into next.
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Diploma Graduate
Wellbeing Initiatives & Personal Wellbeing
Amanda is an executive shop assistant in Te Kuiti who brings positive psychology into a fast-paced retail environment, using affirmations, emotion management, and coaching conversations to strengthen her workplace, her family, and the wider community she lives in.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Lisa applies positive psychology through evidence-based communication, strengths, and goal-setting tools in life insurance work to support clients and colleagues toward sustainable wellbeing, resilience, and long-term recovery, creating positive ripples through everyday interactions.
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Diploma Graduate
Leadership & Development
Victoria designs and facilitates leadership programmes for Rio Tinto in Perth, weaving strengths, values and mindset research into experiences that leaders feel rather than just learn, so the tools she has gained ripple out through her community of leaders and their teams.
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Diploma Graduate
Wellbeing Initiatives & Personal Wellbeing
Victoria is re-entering the not-for-profit sector with a focus on person-centred support and team management, applying positive psychology interventions with friends, former colleagues and in her own relationships to strengthen bonds and help others feel genuinely supported.
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Diploma Graduate
Health, Sports & Psychology
Bradley applies positive psychology by intentionally cultivating wellbeing and meaning in both personal and community contexts. He models strengths-based thinking, self-compassion, and resilience, creating psychologically safe spaces where people are encouraged to recognise their capacities and grow.
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Diploma Graduate
Health, Sports & Psychology
Nikolai applies positive psychology in his community work by designing and delivering inclusive wellbeing programmes that emphasise strengths, identity, and belonging, drawing on his Diploma of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing to support neurodivergent individuals, seniors, and people with disabilities to build confidence, connection, and a life that honours their natural ways of being.
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Diploma Graduate
Wellbeing Initiatives & Personal Wellbeing
Sarah applies positive psychology in her work by designing and delivering wellbeing initiatives grounded in meaning, strengths, engagement, and kindness, drawing on her Diploma of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing to support both students and team members to thrive.
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Diploma Graduate
Education
Vinitha is an early childhood educator who combines lived experience, reflective practice, and evidence-based wellbeing strategies to create nurturing, strengths-led environments that support children, families, and the wider community.
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Diploma Graduate
Education
Guided by her passion for wellbeing, Jean is bringing positive psychology to life in her school, helping teachers and students alike build resilience, connection, and joy in learning.
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Diploma Graduate
Leadership & Development
Janine is a senior learning designer consultant who applies positive psychology through strengths spotting, flow, meaning and emotional agility, redesigning how she works and lives so the people around her feel the ripple of a strengths-based approach.
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Diploma Graduate
People & Culture
Sandra is an HR business partner who brings strengths-based conversations, growth mindset and evidence-based wellbeing practices into team development and performance reviews, and shares gratitude and mindfulness practices with family, friends and community, creating ripples others carry forward in their own way.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Susie provides coaching, mentoring, and workshops for workplaces, schools, and communities, helping people maximise their potential and build wellbeing through strengths, mindset, and positive culture.
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Diploma Graduate
Education
Karen is a senior teacher who embeds positive psychology in her classroom and her leadership, teaching mindfulness, gratitude and strengths so students and colleagues feel safe to grow, creating ripples of hope and connection across schools and leadership networks.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Taryn is a software and digital consultant in Brisbane who applies positive psychology to her work with creative teams, coaching colleagues to build on their strengths and fostering environments where people feel valued and empowered, so the whole ecosystem around them thrives.
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Cert IV Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Nicole Treasure has built a career helping others navigate uncertainty, grow confidence, and move forward in their personal and professional lives. As a strengths-based Executive Coach and Career Strategist, she works with high-achieving clients who often feel stuck—grappling with workplace challenges, difficult bosses, or shifting career paths.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Caroline draws on more than two decades in education and the Diploma training in Positive Psychology and Wellbeing to help schools embed evidence-informed, whole-school approaches to wellbeing. Her work strengthens culture, capability, and connection across students, teachers, leadership and families, where wellbeing, emotional literacy, and learning intelligence form the foundation for sustainable success and flourishing.
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Diploma Graduate
Wellbeing Initiatives & Personal Wellbeing
Julie found her way through profound grief with the help of positive psychology, and now uses her story and the tools she gained to support others informally, showing that resilience, meaning and hope can be rebuilt after devastating loss.
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Diploma Graduate
Education
Amy is an educator, coach, and founder of The Wellness Strategy, who uses positive psychology to build teacher and leader wellbeing in schools across Australia, empowering hundreds of educators so the benefits ripple out to thousands of students.
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Diploma Graduate
Wellbeing Initiatives & Personal Wellbeing
Rebecca works as a freelance event manager on international sporting events, applying strengths, mindfulness and a growth mindset to how she leads and coaches younger staff and volunteers, and creating lasting positive ripples through her closest relationships.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Keelie is a fitness coach and founder who applies positive psychology through strengths, optimism and kindness, building a coaching business and a community for sober and curious women so they can back themselves and inspire others.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Anna co-founded a consultancy that helps leaders and HR professionals identify and reduce psychosocial hazards at work, combining decades of corporate HR experience with positive psychology to build cultures of safety, care, and strengths-based growth for clients and their people.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Alejandro is a learning and development manager in Melbourne who brings strengths, emotional awareness, and Broaden and Build theory into his facilitation and coaching, helping his team play to their strengths and encouraging friends, family, and clients to apply positive psychology in their own lives.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Molly is a youth counsellor in Brisbane who uses a strengths-based positive psychology framework to help young people do far more than just cope. The course also reshaped life at home, and friends, family and colleagues have felt the benefit.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Toni runs her own learning consultancy in Sydney, bringing strengths-based coaching, mindfulness and emotions-as-data training to a wide range of clients, and proving that positive psychology can reshape a career at any age while rippling positivity through every team she works with.
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Diploma Graduate
Health, Sports & Psychology
Diane is an emergency physician and director of emergency medicine training who, after her own burnout, brings positive psychology into feedback and supervision with her trainees, and sees the ripples in her colleagues, her children and her outlook on work and home.
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Diploma Graduate
Education
Adrienne applies positive psychology both personally and professionally, using evidence-based tools to enhance her own wellbeing, strengthen her parenting, and develop wellbeing programs for students and educators.
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Diploma Graduate
People & Culture
David leads change management and learning programs for a Melbourne council, weaving positive psychology into resilience training, coaching and everyday conversations so colleagues and his own family navigate change with more confidence, creating ripples that reach far beyond the classroom.
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Diploma Graduate
Health, Sports & Psychology
Kate is a psychologist with the Department of Defence who brings positive psychology into her practice and daily life through gratitude, random acts of kindness and strength spotting, trusting that small ripples can lead to big waves.
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Diploma Graduate
People & Culture
Lucy is an executive performance, leadership and career strategy coach and Creative Director of Evolving HR in Perth. She brings strengths, values and positive psychology into her coaching and into team effectiveness and leadership workshops she designs for client organisations, spreading the principles to new teams.
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Diploma Graduate
Health, Sports & Psychology
Combining physical and mental wellness strategies, Amy developed a unique approach that helps clients achieve balance and better overall health.
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Diploma Graduate
Leadership & Development
Kate is an organisational development specialist who applies positive psychology to leadership and culture at work, and whose goal setting in the course led her to publish 'Little Reminders', an illustrated children's book now used by grief support organisations.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Jutamas leads Perfect Link Consulting Group in Thailand, building community wellbeing through sustainable and community-based tourism. She has shared positive psychology with more than 500 people in remote communities and organisations, helping community members and leaders realise their full potential.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Ashraf is a former corporate executive who now runs his own coaching and management consultancy, translating positive psychology research into simple, practical tools for leaders, and using talks, television, and books to carry the message of wellbeing to communities in Egypt and beyond.
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Diploma Graduate
Leadership & Development
Gemma works in Learning and Development for an international insurance firm in England, applying strengths-based assessment tools from the Diploma to her own growth and to a team of 40 staff, shaping career discussions and development plans across multiple units.
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Diploma Graduate
Leadership & Development
Julia is a learning and development specialist who used the Diploma to design and launch an award-winning wellbeing program for more than 500 employees across Australia and New Zealand, creating ripples of positive change through a large corporate workplace.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Agapi is an Associate at the Langley Group who applies positive psychology to her work and to her role as a foster carer, drawing on meaning, strengths, and learned optimism to sustain her own wellbeing and send ripples of care through the children, families, and colleagues around her.
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Diploma Graduate
Education
Jo is a head teacher in special education who brings positive psychology into her school, her coaching practice and strengths-based parenting workshops, spreading ripples of gratitude and strength spotting across families and schools in the Illawarra.
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Diploma Graduate
Wellbeing Initiatives & Personal Wellbeing
Chris, a former corporate professional turned entrepreneur, used the Diploma of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing to transform his personal and professional life, enhancing relationships, strengthening his connection with his mother, and building businesses guided by purpose, courage, and positive impact.
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Diploma Graduate
Leadership & Development
Kellie is a partner in Mills-Eaton Training, delivering coaching in communication, leadership and team development. She weaves gratitude, mindfulness, meaning and positive goal setting into her work and daily life, so clients, family and friends feel the benefits too.
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Diploma Graduate
Health, Sports & Psychology
Tom is a consultant physiotherapist and ergonomist who brings positive psychology into workplace consulting, his family life and his children's book about eating real food, rippling out through school visits, neighbourhood gardens and a strengths-based culture at work.
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Diploma Graduate
Education
Jane was principal of a Queensland state school where positive psychology shaped everything from strengths surveys and gratitude boards to staff development and parent nights, building a culture her whole campus took up as ‘just what we do around here’.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Stephanie is a self-employed wellbeing coach who blends positive psychology and neuroscience into her coaching, a positive education program for disengaged young adults and a leadership wellbeing program for executives, creating ripples that reach from classrooms to boardrooms.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Jane founded WunderTraining and has helped over 7,000 people discover their strengths, delivering research-rich wellbeing and positive culture training to executive teams, schools and remote communities so the science of flourishing reaches every workplace, whatever the role or location.
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Diploma Graduate
Leadership & Development
Scott leads organisational development and leadership at Schneider Electric, where he has embedded strengths, positive leadership and wellbeing into the culture through the Flourish programme, and spreads ripples further at home through random acts of kindness that keep travelling.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Carly and Tresne bring the science of positive psychology into their growing business, The Happiness Mission, using evidence-based tools to boost wellbeing, strengthen values-driven decisions, and inspire students and clients every day.
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Diploma Graduate
Wellbeing Initiatives & Personal Wellbeing
Rosie used the Diploma to rebuild her confidence and manage lifelong anxiety, flying to Shropshire to thank the woman who cared for her injured mother decades earlier, and now practises positive psychology daily as she starts a new career helping others lift their wellbeing.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Luke is a former teacher and business builder who founded By George, running workshops that help people find meaningful income streams and adopt a positive lifestyle. He practises gratitude, mindfulness and goal setting himself, so the small changes his clients make ripple outward.
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Diploma Graduate
Education
Deborah teaches personal development, life skills and drama to young adults with intellectual disability and learning difficulties, using gratitude, mindfulness and strengths to help them become more resilient, and sharing those same tools with colleagues, family and friends.
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Diploma Graduate
Education
Hester teaches at a Western Australian high school where she chairs the staff Health and Wellbeing Committee, publishing a wellbeing bulletin each term and running meditations and team activities so students and colleagues have practical strategies for their mental and physical health.
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Diploma Graduate
Wellbeing Initiatives & Personal Wellbeing
Scott works as a copywriter in Sweden, where he uses the strengths and values he uncovered through the Diploma to write about wellbeing, motivation and goal setting, spreading positive messaging through every campaign, article and app he touches.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Lynne is a coach who marked her Diploma week with a poem. Using her strengths and what she learned about flow, she now transforms clients who feel low and forlorn, sending them away inspired, confident and ready to spread the word themselves.
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Diploma Graduate
Leadership & Development
Priya shares what she learned through the Diploma by running resilience workshops for colleagues and writing a blog on positive psychology, using its tools to navigate redundancy with optimism and pass that positivity on to her team, family and friends.
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Diploma Graduate
Leadership & Development
Anna uses Positive Psychology to help leaders and teams thrive, building resilience, wellbeing, and stronger connections while inspiring people to reach their full potential.
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Diploma Graduate
Coaching & Consulting
Simon runs his own life coaching practice, drawing on positive psychology and his own experience of adversity to guide clients through career change, strengths discovery and growth mindset, helping them transform adversity into adventure and rippling that change through their lives.
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Diploma Graduate
Wellbeing Initiatives & Personal Wellbeing
Jamie is The Happiness Ninja, performing random acts of kindness in a custom ninja costume and running motivational talks and workshops across Australia and overseas, with programs for people facing unemployment and mental health struggles, spreading kindness wherever he goes.
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Diploma Graduate
Leadership & Development
Selma brings the tools from the Diploma into her leadership, using them to challenge her thinking, make time to reflect amid competing priorities and inspire her team to be the best version of themselves, including facilitating the hand activity at their leadership offsite.
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