Director and Lead Facilitator

Lucy Mayes

Lucy is a strategic, values driven facilitator and consultant specialising in strategic culture crafting and collaboration. She brings her diverse skillset and experience as a trained lawyer, social worker and company director, having worked across multiple settings including corporate, healthcare, charity, welfare, not-for-profit, education, government and the arts.

Lucy has held executive leadership and advisory roles and has extensive governance experience as Chair and Director for a number of not-for-profit Boards. She is passionate about what enables people to do their best work together — the leadership, systems, and processes that support collective, sustained thriving. Her work combines a strong evidence base with deep listening and a belief in the collective wisdom of all stakeholders. She takes a grounded, strengths-based, systemic approach to individual, team, and organisational wellbeing, collaboration, and resilience.

Lucy is a Tedx presenter and a regular presenter, facilitator and MC at conferences, forums and workshops and is the author of Beyond the Stethoscope: Doctors’ stories of reclaiming hope, heart and healing in medicine, editor of Kindness Anthology #2 (produced by the Hush Foundation) and of 'A Different Flood: Stories of strength and recovery’ (produced by Goldfields Library Corporation). She was Victorian runner up in the Australian Rural Women’s Award in 2008 and is a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow.    

Team - The Collective Wisdom Collaborators

We walk our talk - across all spheres, including our own business - we are greater than the sum of our parts. Lucy collaborates on an as needs basis with expert facilitators and consultants from around the world. She has current active partnerships with ProSocial World and Within Works.

L-R: Lisa Simms (Within Works), Lucy Mayes (Collective Wisdom), Heather Atkinson (Within Works), Robert Styles (ProSocial World)