Dr. Tiffany De Sousa Machado

Dr Tiffany De Sousa Machado, better known to most audiences as Dr Tiff, is an expert in transformative workplace wellbeing whose PhD in business and psychology underpins everything she teaches on stage and in her published writing and research. She currently serves as Head of Wellbeing and Development at drtiff.com.au and The Village Foundation, and holds an academic post as Lecturer and Associate Head of People and Culture at the Adelaide Business School, University of Adelaide.

Whether she is addressing leaders at some of Australia’s largest organisations and universities, supporting women facing complex barriers to employment through her work with the GOGO Foundation, or running her signature Transformative Wellbeing program, Dr Tiff’s approach consistently produces remarkable, measurable results across every group and organisation she engages with. At a time when record amounts are being invested in workplace wellbeing while many organisations quietly ask why it isn’t working, Dr Tiff offers a genuine answer grounded in research rather than guesswork or fashionable trends.

Most wellbeing programs, she argues, miss a crucial element: a focus on self-directed, individualised wellbeing. Rather than following a prescribed set of instructions, self-directed wellbeing means taking the reins of your own experience, engaging honestly with who you actually are, and using that knowledge deliberately rather than pretending to be something you are not. Dr Tiff partners with organisations to equip their people with exactly these tools, so they can unlock and harness their own potential rather than relying on generic, top-down solutions imposed without context or genuine buy-in from the people affected.

Recognised as a 2022 Westpac Social Change Fellow and a 2017 Westpac Future Leader, Dr Tiff is highly regarded for the tangible impact of her work, and is available to speak internationally on wellbeing, culture and sustainable performance for organisations of every size and industry.