Meet Stacey Nelan

Stacey Nelan is a domestic, family and sexual violence workplace specialist, lived experience expert and and change-maker whose work is shaped by both professional expertise and lived experience.  

Through her own traumatising workplace experience, Stacey recognised the critical role workplaces need to play in safeguarding employees during the most difficult moments of their lives. That experience shaped her purpose: helping organisations build the capability, systems and leadership confidence required to respond safely and compassionately when domestic, family and sexual violence intersects with the workplace. 

So what happened to her doesn't happen to others.

Stacey partners with Boards, executives, leadership teams and workforces to strengthen organisational responses to domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV), build leadership capability and support workforce culture transformation that embeds safety, respect, violence prevention and accountability.

Stacey has worked with more than 150 organisations across private enterprise, government and not-for-profit sectors to drive gender equality and violence prevention, lead workforce development initiatives and support meaningful organisational change. Her work combines organisational capability assessment, policy and systems uplift, leadership and workforce development, workplace safety planning and structured change management. 

Drawing on project leadership, DEIB principles and lived experience engagement, Stacey helps organisations move beyond policy and intention to practical, sustainable, meaningful implementation into business-as-usual practice that makes a profound difference to workplace culture.

Stacey believes workplaces are powerful agents of change. When leaders model respect, accountability and care, workplaces can become environments where people feel trusted, believed, supported and enabled to thrive — where employees experiencing violence can find safety rather than silence.