Sandy is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Feeding Therapist with 15 years dietetics experience working in hospitals, community clinics, and private practice. She is passionate about working with individuals and families to develop their personal skills and tools to manage their food-related challenges in a simple, manageable and strengths-focused way. She believes that your food journey cannot be separated from your life journey and that food encompasses so much more than just nutrition. Sandy is especially passionate about supporting neurodivergent individuals and families, and subscribes to a strengths-based, neuro-affirming model of care. Sandy loves to connect and support 'orchid people' - those that need more specific environments and elements of care to thrive and meet their potential - just like an orchid. But aren't orchids so gorgeous when they bloom?

Sandy's special areas of interest include:
Positive food relationships
Disordered eating habits including ARFID
Gut-brain health and mental health
Food allergies, sensitivities and intolerances
Neurodivergent food behaviour including
Autism and ADHD
Sensory processing challenges
Neurodevelopmental delay and early intervention

Michelle Lewis is a veteran educator with over 30 years’ experience and the founder of i.am.me, an initiative dedicated to improving understanding of ADHD in schools and families. A late ADHD diagnosis helped Michelle make sense of a lifetime of “being a lot,” and ignited her mission to empower teachers, parents, and young people with practical, compassionate knowledge.

As a specialist teacher in Music and Digital Technologies in Adelaide and a mother of two ADHD children, Michelle combines lived experience, classroom expertise, and ongoing research to enlighten, empower, and elevate others toward confident ADHD self-advocacy.

Callie Elward-Barrett is a neuroinclusion speaker, strategist and founder of Executive Functioning Leadership, where she helps leaders, organisations and communities create environments in which neurodivergent people can genuinely thrive. Her work sits at the intersection of inclusion, leadership, systems design and human capability, with a particular focus on turning awareness into practical action. She additionally co-founded ndWILD, (Weird Intense Loud Different) a non-profit global neuroinclusion movement.


Before founding her business, Callie held senior executive roles in the Australian Public Service, including leadership work in the Department of Health and Aged Care and the Digital Transformation Agency. Her career has included leading large-scale, high-stakes work across public policy, reform, stakeholder engagement, and service delivery, including the Australian Government’s COVID response for First Nations, Disability, and Aged Care environments.


Known for her warmth, honesty and ability to connect the dots between childhood, adulthood, education, and work, Callie brings a perspective that is both strategic and deeply human. She is passionate about helping people move beyond deficit-based narratives and towards approaches that recognise the brilliance, complexity and support needs of neurodivergent minds.

Dr Aleem Khan
Consultant Psychiatrist | FRANZCP

Dr Aleem Khan is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP), with a special interest in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) across the lifespan. He practises at Elyséa HEALTH in Adelaide, providing comprehensive assessment and ongoing care for individuals with ADHD and a broad range of mental health conditions.

Dr Khan completed his advanced psychiatry training within the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN), gaining extensive experience across inpatient, community, emergency, consultation-liaison and outpatient psychiatry. His clinical approach combines evidence-based practice with compassionate, individualised care, focusing on accurate diagnosis, holistic treatment and long-term support.

With a strong interest in neurodevelopmental conditions, Dr Khan works collaboratively with individuals, families, general practitioners, psychologists and allied health professionals to help people achieve their full potential. He is passionate about improving awareness, reducing stigma and empowering individuals and families with practical, evidence-based knowledge that extends well beyond the initial diagnosis.

Beyond his clinical practice, Dr Khan is actively involved in medical education, mentoring junior doctors, psychiatry registrars and early-career psychiatrists, while supporting initiatives that advance mental health awareness and improve access to high-quality psychiatric care.

Under Dr Khan’s leadership, more than 45,000 psychiatric consultations have been delivered through his telehealth organisations over recent years, substantially improving access to specialist mental healthcare across Australia. A significant proportion of this work has involved the assessment and ongoing management of individuals with ADHD, autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions across all age groups, reflecting his commitment to expanding timely, evidence-based care for people who might otherwise face prolonged barriers to specialist services.

Dr Lamb is a Neurodevelopmental Educator with a special interest in ADHD, Autism and Twice-exceptionality in school aged children. She is a registered teacher under NESA, an Associate Member of the Australian ADHD Professionals Association and a member of both the Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented and the Australian Association of Special Education. Her three children and herself are all Neurodivergent with a mix of Autism, ADHD, giftedness, Dyslexia and Dysgraphia.

Dr Lamb is an experienced teacher with a demonstrated history of working in the education industry for over 20 years as a teacher in Diverse Learning (neurodivergence), Science and Head of Science and Executive Functioning in Australia and Singapore. She is an accredited ADHD Coach (Evergreen) with certificate courses in emotional regulation and CPS (Collaborative and Proactive Solutions) and extensive experience supporting young neurodivergent people.

Through experience supporting children and their parents, she has developed both an Executive Functioning program and a Parent Coaching Course.
Dr Lamb holds a unique position as a Neurodevelopmental Educator and advocate for children at school. She has sat in everyone’s chair: the teacher, the parent and the child themselves.