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John Toomey

Global Chair

Global Wellness Institute | Wellness at Work Initiative
Speaker and Author | Wellbeing Thought Leader

Contact Information

  • +61 415 844 919
  • jt@wideawakewellness.com.au
  • Greater Melbourne, Australia

John Toomey

John Toomey is one of Australia’s leading Health Educators. Holding a Degree in Physical Education, John has worked in many diverse areas involving Health, Fitness and Sport.
Since 1982, he’s served in High Performance roles at seven AFL Clubs. He has also worked with a variety of other Professional Sports Clubs in Leadership and Culture Development.
He has been working in and leading the way in the Health Education sector since 1980 and completed over 20,000 hrs study in this field.
As a professional speaker and trainer, he has presented over 3600 seminars in the corporate arena in Australia, NZ, the US, Europe and South East Asia. He has published over 700 articles, including publications like Wellbeing Magazine, The Melbourne Age, The Melbourne Herald Sun, The Huffington Post, Thrive Global and Chopra Global.
From an Academic standpoint, John has lectured in Physical Education at Victoria University and taught Wellness in Monash University’s school of medicine. From 2012-17, he served as a member of the Course Advisory Board at RMIT’s School of Health Sciences. From 2020-4 John served as Global Chair of the Workplace wellbeing Initiative for The Global Wellness Institute.
In 2025, he will sit as Global Chair of the Men’s Wellbeing Initiative. His Fatigue Prevention Program is world renowned. He drove the narrative change from Fatigue Management to Fatigue Prevention. John is also an Avatar Master with 20 years’ experience, giving him a profound and extraordinary understanding of the human mind.

3,600+

Seminars Delivered

20,000+

Hours of Study

700+

Articles Published

20+

Years Experience

Featured Programs

Transform your life and workplace with our comprehensive wellness seminars

Living Life on The Front Foot

An Educational Seminar about living life in a way that builds personal confidence, self-acceptance, friendly connections, and peace of mind.

Introduction To Seminar

Negativity can be a scourge of modern life. Following the Covid-19 lockdowns, coupled with the ongoing uncertainty of inflation, high interest rates and alarming global issues, stress levels in some sectors have risen to new and catastrophic levels. Businesses have been challenged like they perhaps never have. Uncertainty prevails. Commercial property values are under threat as workers across the world resist returning to the office environment. Traditional “safe bets” are now under the microscope. Many businesses have failed and many more teeter on the brink. This Seminar is a pathway to regaining control, developing mastery over living, and getting back in the driver’s seat, to get on the front foot & regain control.
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Key Benefits

  • Understanding and managing the stress response
  • Techniques for remaining present and mindful
  • Reframing perspectives and gaining clarity
  • Improving sleep quality
  • Building team cohesion and culture
  • Practicing virtues to build stress immunity
  • Directing attention effectively
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Healthy Masculinity, Healthy Men

Physical, Mental, Emotional Spiritual

Introduction To Seminar

What has happened to modern men? So many are unfit, unhealthy, unfulfilled, and unhappy. One could argue that men have lost their way. Getting back on track is not too difficult when you know how. This seminar shines a light on a tried and tested strategy for returning men to the seat of their own personal power.
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Key Benefits

  • Gain clear, empowering understanding of your health and masculinity so you can take confident action
  • Learn how to assess your heart health, understand your risk, and know exactly what to do next
  • Discover how to safely move away from unnecessary medications that may be draining your energy and drive
  • Master simple, powerful tools that create immediate improvements in health, focus, and daily life
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Alert, Awake And Aware

Introduction To Seminar

“To build an effective community, everyone must realise that their community is bigger than them.” Idowu Kayenikan

Mothers know that their kids lack maturity in their awareness, so when they are out and about, the mother’s vigilance is almost instinctive. Soldiers also know the power of vigilance when in battle situations. Recognizing risk keeps their colleagues alive.
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Key Benefits

  • Boredom
  • Worry, Regret and Guilt.
  • Financial Challenges
  • Poor organisational justice
  • Traumatic events or material
  • Challenges at home.
  • Violence and aggression.
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Fatigue Prevention

Reduce Risk, Increase Productivity

Introduction To Seminar

What causes daytime or wake time fatigue? Is it poor sleep? Perhaps it is, but how does one explain incessant yawning, drowsiness and lethargy during a day following an 8 or 9 hour sleep? Fatigue is a multi-faceted challenge and requires understanding and knowledge to ensure that it can be kept at bay, or even eliminated.
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Key Benefits

  • Fatigue Prevention
  • Resilience & Mental Wellbeing
  • Psycho-Social Risk
  • Stress Prevention
  • General Wellbeing
  • The Care Culture
  • High Performance Teams and Leaders
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The Balancing Act

Finding Balance and Equilibrium in a Post Covid World!

Introduction To Seminar

Who is responsible for my life? Me! That is Simple! But am I taking responsibility for my life? The question creates explanations and reasons. A successful and balanced life is one that is deliberately operated by the individual. Many spend their lives reacting to circumstances, people and events and constantly feel like they are being swept along. Many feel that their life is hard. Others appear to cruise along.
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Key Benefits

  • Reduced stress levels.
  • Greater Self Control.
  • Better Decision Making.
  • Stronger sense of purpose.
  • Greater capacity to enjoy life.
  • A Clearer path to a desirable future.
  • Stronger sense of personal power.
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Thriving Through Stress

Gaining Mastery over Challenging Situations

Introduction To Seminar

Negative Stress can be a scourge of modern life. Following the Covid-19 lockdowns, coupled with the ongoing uncertainty of the pandemic, stress levels in some sectors have risen to new and catastrophic levels. Businesses have been challenged like they perhaps never have. Uncertainty prevails. Commercial property values are under threat as workers across the world resist returning to the office environment. Traditional “safe bets” are now under the microscope. Many businesses have failed and many more teeter on the brink.
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Pressure Creates Fear and Reactivity

  • When fearful, people cannot keep attention on tasks.
  • People become pre-occupied and distracted
  • May lose self-care and in doing so, lose care for others
  • Motivation can be completely lost
  • People can seek distractions to block negative feelings: TV, Gaming, etc
  • People become more likely to abuse alcohol and recreational drugs
  • Often People are more likely to be involved in or create conflict
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Optimizing Mental Wellbeing

Gaining Mastery over Challenging Situations

Introduction To Seminar

Negative Stress can be a scourge of modern life. Following the Covid-19 lockdowns, coupled with the ongoing uncertainty of inflation, high interest rates and alarming global issues, stress levels in some sectors have risen to new and catastrophic levels.
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Minimize Negative Stress

  • Shift your people into a more flexible viewpoint.
  • Teach people to recognise the signs of stress.
  • Teach techniques for re-framing and gaining helpful perspectives.
  • Teach techniques to calm your mind and body so that you can “re-start”.
  • Help turn reactivity into proactivity.
  • Use stressful situations to gain insight and learning.
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Psycho-Social Risk Minimisation

Introduction To Seminar

Why is it that when there is a major catastrophe, like a fire, a flood or cyclone, that people arrive from all over and form aligned and highly cooperative teams to do whatever is needed to relieve suffering and restore order. It is profound to witness how people can so easily come together in cooperative efforts that deliver extraordinary service. It is almost as if they are genetically wired to respond in times of distress.
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Creating Alignment

  • Alignment requires conscientiousness and care.
  • Requires genuine respect for every person’s role and responsibilities.
  • Also requires clear and generous communication. Make sure everyone knows.
  • And requires a genuine effort to be mindful, responsible, and supportive.
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Resilience & Mental Wellbeing

Introduction To Seminar

Who is responsible for my life? Me! That is Simple! But am I taking responsibility for my life? Now the question creates explanations and reasons. When things change as dramatically as they have in recent times, we can get thrown off centre, become confused and fear the future as our old map no longer works. What are we going to do?
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To Eliminate Fear

  • Will shift your people into a more flexible viewpoint
  • Explore with participants the challenges brought about by modern living
  • Show the participants how to re-discover their resilience.
  • Explore what makes human beings thrive and find happiness
  • Significantly reduce or even eliminate employee stress

Additional Programs Available

Explore our full range of workplace seminars, webinars, resources and workshops designed to build resilient, high-performing teams

Fatigue Prevention

Resilience & Mental Wellbeing

Stress Prevention

General Wellbeing

The Care Culture

High Performance Teams and Leaders

Wellness in Safety

Beyond Violence

Robust Immunity

Safety Leadership

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