Diverse Leaders

Diverse Leaders provides Culture Assessment and Development across Australia, drawing on deep expertise in psychological safety, diversity, trauma-informed frameworks, and lived experience integration to help organisations establish clear cultural identity and build inclusive, high-performing workplaces.

• Led by CEO Kris Sargeant (MBA, Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Psychology), with decades of experience in community services and sector leadership spanning disability, aged care, youth mental health, education and LGBTQIA+ services.
• Specialises in trauma-informed, intersectionality-aware culture assessment and development, with evidence-based approaches grounded in data and best practice; recent work includes 3-year People and Culture Strategy development for Karakan (community mental health service) and Wellbeing Framework design for University of Queensland Union College.
• Focuses on embedding lived experience perspectives in governance and decision-making, recognising how identity, power, trauma and intersectional experience shape organisational culture and performance.

Best for: community services, health and aged care organisations, and not-for-profits seeking to build psychologically safe, inclusive cultures grounded in lived experience and trauma-informed practice.

Diverse Leaders offers Executive and Senior Leadership Coaching grounded in trauma-informed, psychologically safe principles for leaders in health, community services, and not-for-profit organisations.

• Combines strategic clarity with genuine care, helping senior executives build high-performing, inclusive teams where every person feels valued and safe.
• Draws on Kris Sargeant’s extensive background managing multimillion-dollar budgets, leading high-performing teams, and developing innovative service models across the community services sector.
• Coaching integrates lived experience perspectives and recognises how trauma and intersectionality shape leadership effectiveness and team dynamics.

Best for: senior leaders in community services, health, disability, education and not-for-profit sectors seeking to build psychologically safe, high-performing teams grounded in trauma-informed practice.