Strategic Guidance for Mental Health Transformation, Suicide Prevention, & Lived Experience Leadership

At LEXs, we work with senior leaders, organisations, and government partners navigating complex mental health and suicide prevention challenges; where clinical risk, workforce fragility, cultural safety, and system accountability intersect.

Led by Michael Elwan, an award-winning social worker, national advisor, and PhD researcher, our consultancy supports organisations to move beyond compliance and aspiration toward meaningful, evidence-informed transformation. We bring together lived and living experience, senior management expertise, and systems-level thinking to help leaders design strategies that are ethical, durable, and implementable.

Our work sits at the junction of policy, practice, culture, and lived experience. We partner closely with executive teams, boards, and program leaders to strengthen governance, embed lived experience leadership, and design suicide prevention and mental health strategies that respond to real-world complexity rather than theoretical ideals.

Whether you are reforming services, strengthening peer and lived experience workforces, or shaping policy and commissioning frameworks, LEXs offers strategic partnership grounded in clarity, cultural humility, and practical action.

How We Support Organisations

Our consultancy is structured around three core domains of practice, supported by tailored strategic and operational services.

1. Lived Experience Leadership & Workforce Systems

We support organisations to move beyond tokenistic inclusion toward structurally embedded lived experience leadership. This includes governance integration, workforce design, role clarity, supervision frameworks, and organisational readiness for cultural change.

Our work focuses on building psychologically safe systems that protect, value, and sustain lived experience leadership rather than exhausting it.

2. Suicide Prevention Strategy, Design & Implementation

We partner with services, communities, and policy leaders to design suicide prevention strategies that are culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and grounded in evidence and lived experience.

This includes whole-of-organisation strategy development, community-led program design, workforce capability building, and implementation support across mental health, community services, and government sectors.

3. Multicultural Mental Health & Systems Transformation

We support organisations working with multicultural communities to strengthen cultural safety, equity, and responsiveness at both service and system levels.

This includes strategy development, service redesign, workforce training, and policy advice that recognises the intersection of migration, trauma, identity, and systemic exclusion.

Supporting Capabilities

Alongside these core domains, we provide:

• Peer workforce development and reflective supervision

• System and service co-design facilitation

• Policy development, submissions, and strategic advocacy

• Executive advisory and strategy intensives

All engagements are co-designed, context-responsive, and tailored to organisational readiness, scale, and complexity.

Why Partner With LEXs?

LEXs offers a rare integration of senior sector leadership, lived and living experience, and deep systems literacy.

Michael brings over 15 years of senior management and advisory experience across mental health, suicide prevention, disability, and community services, alongside lived experience shaped by long-term caregiving, migration, and suicide bereavement. This combination allows us to work with both technical complexity and human reality, without collapsing one into the other.

Our consultancy approach is:

• Strategically rigorous - grounded in evidence, policy literacy, and organisational systems thinking

• Culturally and ethically anchored - informed by cultural humility, trauma-informed practice, and lived experience leadership

• Practically oriented - focused on implementable strategy, workforce capability, and real-world constraints

We are trusted by government departments, peak bodies, and frontline organisations to deliver work that is thoughtful, challenging, and deeply grounded.

Begin a Conversation

If you are leading organisational change, designing services, shaping policy, or navigating complex mental health and suicide prevention challenges, we welcome a conversation.

Our first step is a confidential, no-obligation discussion to explore:

• Your current priorities and pressures

• The challenges you are navigating

• Where strategic clarity, reflection, or external perspective may help

From there, we can determine together whether LEXs is the right partner for your work.

Contact Michael to arrange an initial consultation.