Drawing on her behavioural expertise and experience working within the care sector, explores the powerful leadership lessons that can be applied far beyond care environments.
When: Wednesday, 7 October 2026, 11:00AM - 12:00PM AEST
In settings where people may be experiencing heightened stress, complex behavioural challenges or dysregulation, traditional one-size-fits-all management approaches simply don't work. Instead, leaders must understand what's happening beneath behaviour and create the conditions people need to feel safe, connected and able to function at their best.
In this conversation, Katrina takes these learnings from the care sector and asks what they could teach every organisation about leading people.
Together, we explore the foundational human needs of stability, consistency, predictability and security, and what happens to our behaviour and performance when these are missing.
Katrina introduces concepts including psychological comfort, social nourishment and co-regulation, demonstrating why leadership isn't always about saying more, solving the problem or following a rigid framework. Sometimes it's about recognising what another person's nervous system needs in that moment.
This conversation will benefit leaders, People & Culture professionals and teams looking to create more human-centred, psychologically safe and high-performing environments.
Key takeaways include:
What leaders can learn from behavioural practices developed in complex care environments.
Why stability, consistency, predictability and security are foundations for wellbeing and performance.
How psychological comfort and social nourishment can - change the way we think about workplace culture.
What co-regulation looks like in practice and how leaders can better respond when someone is struggling.
How to move beyond rigid management models towards leadership that recognises individual human needs.
About Katrina Loukas
Katrina Loukas is the Founder and CEO of Lifehackers Institute, a boutique wellbeing agency. A published poet, author, speaker, mathematician, trauma-informed psychotherapist and behavioural specialist, she brings a systems-thinking approach to wellbeing and group transformation. Her work focuses on helping people move beyond self-awareness and isolation toward co-regulation, connection, social nourishment and lasting behavioural change.