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CALEB RIXON
Humanising Healthcare Through Lived Experience Leadership
Social Health Innovator · Keynote Speaker · Founder
Three days after his 24th birthday, a rare brain abnormality handed Caleb Rixon a major plot twist.
Surviving a catastrophic stroke, Caleb pivoted from the performing arts theatre to a neurosurgery operating theatre – reemerging as an author, global keynote speaker, and health advocate.
A Westpac Social Change Fellow, his lived-experience insights are published by Cambridge University Press and featured across ABC News. Today, he advises clinical executives, embeds lived-experience governance, and mobilises peer-led communities worldwide.
PLENARY KEYNOTES, FACILITATION & BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS
Stage & Storyteller Sizzle Reel
Featured Media & Keynote Highlights: ABC News • ABC TV • SBS Insight • House of Wellness • Occupational Therapy Australia (OTA) • Transport Accident Commission (TAC) • Bupa • National Disability Services (NDS)
Dynamic Facilitator & Host
Facilitating health & justice events: Occupational Therapy Australia, Health Justice Australia, Barwon Health, and National Disability Awards.
International Thought Leader
Opening the HealtheVoices Conference in New Jersey to a major audience, featuring live post-speech reactions from American advocates.
For his 24th birthday, a rare brain abnormality gifted Caleb Rixon a major plot twist. Surviving a catastrophic stroke, he pivoted from the performing arts theatre to a neurosurgery operating theatre – reemerging as a global speaker and health advocate.
PLENARY KEYNOTES, FACILITATION & BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS
Stage & Storyteller Sizzle Reel
ABC News • ABC TV • SBS Insight • House of Wellness • Occupational Therapy Australia (OTA) • Transport Accident Commission (TAC) • Bupa • National Disability Services (NDS)
Dynamic Facilitator & Host
Occupational Therapy Australia, Health Justice Australia, Barwon Health, and National Disability Awards.
Global Thought Leader
Opening the 10th Anniversary HealtheVoices Conference in New Jersey, USA, to a major audience, featuring live post-speech reactions.
A Westpac Social Change Fellow, his insights are published by Cambridge University Press and featured across ABC News. Today, he advises clinical executives, embeds lived-experience governance, and mobilises peer-led communities worldwide.
CLIENTS & PARTNERS
ENDORSEMENTS
"Caleb has an incredible ability to share his unique story in a way that reaches out and brings you in to his world to see it from the inside out. In doing so with such eloquence, humour, openness and warmth, he is a powerful and authentic voice for survivors of stroke and other life-changing injuries and illnesses."
Dana Wong
Professor Clinical Neuropsychology
La Trobe University, Australia
"Caleb provided remarkable insights into his day to day experiences of recovery and his wider perceptions.Caleb is warm, honest and engaging and he managed to make the audience both laugh out loud and then almost move them to tears. He has a clear message, and doesn’t pull back any punches with this. His insights are gold dust for clinicians and researchers."
Avril Drummond (UK)
Professor Healthcare Research.
Deputy Head of School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham
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