Strategic Guidance for Mental Health Transformation, Suicide Prevention, & Lived Experience Leadership
At LEXs, we partner with organisations, government bodies, and nonprofits to co-design mental health strategies that are inclusive, evidence-informed, and grounded in lived experience. Led by Michael Elwan - a nationally recognised consultant, suicide prevention advisor, and CaLD mental health advocate - our consultancy work blends cultural insight, clinical understanding, and systems-thinking to help organisations build safer, more responsive services. Whether you're strengthening your peer workforce, embedding trauma-informed approaches, or shaping policy reform, we bring deep expertise and authentic partnership to every engagement.
🧠 How We Support Organisations
We tailor every consultancy engagement to your needs. Services include:
✔ Lived Experience Leadership & Workforce Development
Helping organisations meaningfully embed lived experience leadership into service delivery, governance, and culture.
✔ Suicide Prevention Strategy & Program Design
Supporting the development and implementation of evidence-based, community-informed suicide prevention initiatives.
✔ Mental Health & Wellbeing Strategy
Guiding the creation of psychologically safe, inclusive spaces across sectors—from workplaces to community programs.
✔ Peer Workforce Development & Supervision
Offering consultancy on peer workforce design, onboarding, supervision, and reflective practice frameworks - especially within mental health, AoD, disability, and community services.
✔ System & Service Co-Design
Facilitating collaborative design processes that centre lived experience, cultural safety, and trauma-informed care.
✔ Policy & Advocacy Support
Contributing to mental health policy submissions, reform agendas, and sector-wide advocacy grounded in practice and personal experience.
🌟 Why Partner With LEXs?
✅ Lived Experience + Strategic Insight
Michael draws on over 15 years of sector leadership, suicide prevention advisory roles, and his own lived experience as a carer, migrant, and bereaved son.
✅ Co-Designed, Not Prescribed
We collaborate with you to build solutions that align with your vision, stakeholders, and cultural context.
✅ From Vision to Implementation
We focus on translating bold ideas into workable actions - supporting rollout, training, and evaluation where needed.
✅ Trusted by Sector Leaders
LEXs has supported peak bodies, state departments, and frontline teams in building services that are human-centred and future-ready.
🔧 How It Works
📩 Step 1: Reach Out
Let’s begin with a conversation to understand your priorities, goals, and current challenges.
📅 Step 2: Tailor the Approach
Together, we’ll co-design a consultancy scope that is clear, achievable, and aligned with your values.
🔄 Step 3: Support & Deliver
LEXs provides hands-on support - whether one-off strategy sessions, co-design facilitation, or ongoing project partnership.
💬 Book a Consultation
Whether you're leading a service, designing a program, or shaping policy - LEXs is here to walk alongside you with insight, humility, and strategic clarity.
Meet Your Consultant
Michael Elwan
Michael Elwan is a nationally recognised mental health consultant, suicide prevention advisor, and lived experience leader. As the founder of LEXs, he brings a rare combination of personal insight, cultural intelligence, and professional expertise to every consultancy partnership.
Michael’s journey began in Alexandria, Egypt, where he became a caregiver at 14 and later lost his mother to suicide - a story that deeply informs his advocacy. Now based in Perth, he holds an MBA (Distinction), a Master of Social Work, a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health, a Diploma in Psychology, and is currently completing a PhD on Lived Experience Leadership in mental health.
He has worked across senior leadership, policy, frontline services, and national advisory panels. Michael is a trusted voice on state and national reform initiatives, and regularly speaks at major conferences on embedding lived experience and cultural responsiveness into systems change.
With over 15 years in the sector and a deep commitment to trauma-informed, values-led practice, Michael supports organisations to not only meet best practice - but to lead it.