Healthy Tasmania

Healthy Tasmania We fill the gaps! We create whatever is needed to build connections between people who need help and people who provide help. We run programs. We manage events.

We started Healthy Tasmania to help people live the best life they can. We want to help Tasmanians improve their health, strengthen their life skills, to live in communities that are thriving economically and socially and be as passionate about Tasmania as we are. Healthy Tasmania works with community partners to build capacity, improve equity and inclusion, and promote pride of place; our motivat

ion is to make communities thrive. We design, build and deliver projects to improve the life skills of Tasmanians. We write policy. We organise people. We find money. We’ll do the work, we’ll manage the process, we’ll fix your headaches, we’ll make you look good and we’ll share positive stories broadly to get your brand the recognition it deserves. Get in touch to find out how we will make it happen.

Penny's work on being a better host was never really just about podcasting. It was always about how we create the condit...
09/06/2026

Penny's work on being a better host was never really just about podcasting. It was always about how we create the conditions for better conversations.

Most of us are hosting something every day: a meeting, a question, a new idea, a tricky disclosure or a room full of people who may or may not be pretending they do not have an opinion.

Sadly, leadership does not come with a seven-second delay button. However, there are things it shares with radio and podcast hosting: building rapport early, inviting participation, listening for what is not being said, reading the room and knowing when to turn something up, bring something down or gently move the conversation along.

In her new keynote, The Leadership Studio, Penny sets up her studio on stage and helps delegates play with the faders, so they can create better conditions for trust, contribution and conversations with a bit more life in them.

It's our 10th anniversary at Healthy Tasmania so we've been going through the archives. Today special treats are:- Our f...
18/05/2026

It's our 10th anniversary at Healthy Tasmania so we've been going through the archives. Today special treats are:
- Our first meeting
- Our first presentation (hmmm, yes, on fit balls...)
- Our first... I have no idea and I don't want to know.

Two sisters.One bottle of rosé.A very productive whinge.That is the moment Healthy Tasmania began.It was a normal post-w...
06/05/2026

Two sisters.
One bottle of rosé.
A very productive whinge.
That is the moment Healthy Tasmania began.

It was a normal post-work drink around Penny’s kitchen table, which is to say we were unpacking the week, solving the problems of the world, and 'keeping each other humble' in a way only siblings can.

We weren’t trying to start a business that night. We were just talking about work, life, and the brilliant ideas we’d seen get tangled in systems, leaving good people hitting the same walls.

Somewhere between the rosé, the frustration and the dawning realisation that Lucy’s brain was already figuring out how to help people navigate and then change the structures while Penny’s brain was chasing the stories and experiences that would help people understand the issues, the conversation changed.

It stopped being a whinge and started becoming a plan. The next day, it had become a business.

We have no idea what the actual date of that conversation was, which is deeply inconvenient for anniversary purposes, but we both remember the moment.

While our work has evolved significantly over the past ten years, our mission remains the same: to help good people, do work that matters, for meaningful change.

We have a significant anniversary coming up for Healthy Tasmania. As such, we've been looking through the archives and s...
29/04/2026

We have a significant anniversary coming up for Healthy Tasmania. As such, we've been looking through the archives and stumbled upon a folder of photos from our first photo shoot.

Wow. We have many questions.

Luckily, this is just the start of what we uncovered, standby for more....

Anyone else skipped this part… and then felt the overwhelm?!We see it a lot in our work.We’ll be working with a mentorin...
12/04/2026

Anyone else skipped this part… and then felt the overwhelm?!

We see it a lot in our work.

We’ll be working with a mentoring client who is stepping into something new, a bigger role, or an extra role, a different level of responsibility. They’re excited, curious, nervous… and then somewhere in the conversation, there’s a pause. You can almost feel the penny drop.

Suddenly the conversation shifts from the promise of the new shiny thing… to the trade-offs of the old, slightly outgrown things.

It looks like a decision about workload, but it often runs deeper than that.

We find that while most people prepare for what they’re stepping into.
Very few prepare for what they’re stepping away from, yet that can be the hardest part.

The new thing is usually about opportunity.
The old things tend to be about identity.

Letting go of something that's part of our identify often requires a renegotiation of what we're ready to stop carrying… and who we're allowed to stop being...

Well… ah that got deep, fast!

Lucy has been running heaps of workshops with organisations in 2026. If you look closely at the photos from these sessio...
22/03/2026

Lucy has been running heaps of workshops with organisations in 2026. If you look closely at the photos from these sessions, you’ll often see people writing on bits of paper or sticking them on walls.

There’s a small reason for that.

Those bits of paper are deliberately temporary.

Architects often sketch in pencil for the same reason. When ideas feel permanent too early, people stop questioning them.

When an idea is written on bit of paper and stuck to a wall with Blu Tac - it's moveable.

Teams can test ideas, rearrange their thinking, and shape the structure together.

It’s a powerful way to explore and design things like governance, strategy and leadership before they become the solid structures that guide the organisation.

Architects understand this well.Design a pathway badly and people will cut their own line across the grass. They call th...
17/03/2026

Architects understand this well.

Design a pathway badly and people will cut their own line across the grass. They call them desire paths.

Winston Churchill understood this too - a structure doesn’t just house things or hold them up, it shows people how to behave.

Organisations work the same way.

If governance, strategy and leadership aren’t designed well, people will find ways around them. But get those foundations right and they quietly shape how organisations think, decide and act.

While I probably wouldn’t trust Lucy to design the foundations of your office building, plenty of workplaces have brought her in to help them design the foundations of their organisations.

If you want to find out more about Lucy’s foundational workshops - head over to www.lucybyrne.au

“Hey Penny, want to facilitate a panel with a disability services CEO, a pet product entrepreneur and a director on a bi...
07/03/2026

“Hey Penny, want to facilitate a panel with a disability services CEO, a pet product entrepreneur and a director on a billion-dollar infrastructure project?”

Umm… yes please!

When Claire Connolly and the team from the Devonport Chamber of Commerce asked Penny to facilitate a panel at their Women in Business Summit on Friday, it didn’t take much convincing.

On the eve of International Women's Day Penny led a conversation about "Doing Well by Doing Good" with three incredible leaders of For Purpose Organisations:

Honni Pitt – CEO, St Giles
Anneke Van den Broek – Founder, Rufus & Coco
Bec Jhonston – Director People & Culture, Marinus Link

Different industries. Different perspectives. Plenty of shared ground.

And just to be clear - doing good isn’t the soft, fluffy end of leadership.

It’s the hard stuff. The decisions that shape systems.
The kind of influence that changes how things work.

Happy International Women's Day!

Photo Credit: Ian MacLeod Photography

Pretty much anyone who grew up in Tasmania in the 90s, or even the early 2000s… and then moved interstate, probably reme...
05/03/2026

Pretty much anyone who grew up in Tasmania in the 90s, or even the early 2000s… and then moved interstate, probably remembers being paid out by their mainland friends just for being Tasmanian.

Until those same friends visited.

Back then people had to come here to get it.

Now? We're why they come.

This week Penny has been delivering Brand Tasmanian Story Foundations workshop around the state. In each room, Tasmanians have been unpicking the path that led to the thing they now do or create.

One thing stood out again and again.

The paths that build something extraordinary often feel quite ordinary to the people walking them.

Ideas that started at the workshop bench or kitchen table.
Local ingredients that became products fancy chefs love.
Curiosity and conversations that turned into something much bigger.

When those stories are told well, they don’t just promote a place, they help others understand the people who live and work there. Once people understand a that, they start to value it differently.

Our stories make us, make sense.

And we can’t wait to see more of them shared out loud.

Just a couple of super profesh authors on a super profesh photo shoot.
23/02/2026

Just a couple of super profesh authors on a super profesh photo shoot.

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