About Us

Humanising the journey

“We have decades of lived experience and we’ve walked the path with many others around us who we love and respect. We’ve carried the weight of mental ill health and stigma on our own backs and for others who we care about. Some of the journeys have been devasting, others have been inspiring, all of them have granted us insight, compassion and determination”.

Transforming Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing

Lindsey and Kate met and worked collaboratively across different business structures in the years prior to Covid-19. During the first wave of the pandemic they saw first-hand how devastating poor mental health could be for both employees and organisations, especially in uncertain and volatile conditions. For their own mental health, and those around them, Kate and Lindsey both changed their professional trajectory and set up businesses to address what they believed was a radical need for ill mental health prevention and early intervention initiatives in Aotearoa.

After reconnecting in the first ‘out of lockdown’ period, Lindsey and Kate shared their ambitions for achieving positive and impactful change. They shelved other projects, focussed on mutual values and purpose, and evaluated a collective impact model that quickly guided the easy alignment of business initiatives. The result of this process (and the sharing of lots of personal mental health challenges) was the formation of Humanex; a mental health collaboration focused on human interaction and learning from shared experience.

“As a team we are venturing into spaces that others fear to tread; encouraging authentic and vulnerable conversations, breaking down stigma, building confidence through applied intervention skills; and working towards the colossal goal of improving the mental wellbeing of New Zealanders at an intergenerational level, let’s get on with it”. K&L

Nurturing Diversity and Wellbeing at HumanEx

The people behind your people; improving psychological safety, minimising psychosocial risk and cultivating high-performance teams.

Empathy is the cornerstone value at HumanEx, our team is dedicated to encouraging authentic and vulnerable conversations that overtime and with trust, breakdown mental health stigma and enhances our interpersonal communication and relationships.

We research, collaborate, design and deliver emotional intelligence based training and progressive mental health strategies that teach early intervention techniques and ongoing practical skills, while recognising and embracing diversity and intersectionality.

HumanEx - connection, emotional intelligence, wellbeing and performance.

Our dynamic team of industry specialists

Humanex is built on the collaborative efforts and talent of our highly experienced and skilled team of professional executives, facilitators, consultants, clinicians, therapists and lived experience contributors.