Empower Series

Dr Susan White AM is a Specialist Sport and Exercise Physician with more than 30 years’ experience working with elite athletes including attending multiple Paralympic, Olympic, Youth Olympic, Commonwealth Games and World Championships in roles ranging from Team Physician to Medical Director.

She is Chair of the Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Committee.​

With 20 years’ experience in high performance sport across coaching and performance lifestyle, Leesa currently leads the VIS Performance Lifestyle Team developing and implementing wellbeing initiatives across the VIS, as well as providing Performance Lifestyle support to athletes.

With a background in education, Leesa has held teaching and educational leadership roles and is a qualified career practitioner and accredited Morrisby user. She has an elite coaching qualification in netball and has coached Victorian teams to 6 National Championship titles and led the VIS Netball development program.

Leesa also holds leadership roles within the Australian sporting system, on wellbeing advisory groups and HP2032+ working groups.

Grace is a Performance Lifestyle Adviser and organisational psychologist. She is experienced in wellbeing, leadership development, career development, and learning. Grace has designed and delivered interventions across the individual, team and system level. At the Victorian Institute of Sport, Grace supports the wellbeing of developing, Olympic and Paralympic athletes across a range of sports. She has completed a Masters in Organisational Psychology and is accredited in a number of psychometric assessments.​