Renata Lee
SuperFriend, the workplace mental health and wellbeing partner for the superannuation and insurance industry, has bolstered its insights and evaluation capabilities with two senior research hires in Renada Lee, Impact Manager, Insurance, and Jamie Swann, Impact Manager, Superannuation.
SuperFriend’s insights and evaluation program is designed to deliver rich insights to increase understanding of factors influencing positive employee mental health and wellbeing, especially within the financial services sector.
Ms Lee and Mr Swann will be working to expand upon the research already undertaken by SuperFriend and enhance the scope of mental health and wellbeing insights across Australian workplaces.
SuperFriend CEO, Margo Lydon, said: “We are delighted to welcome Renada and Jamie on board. They bring a wealth of experience which really builds on the work we’ve been doing with our Partners to raise awareness of mental health and wellbeing within Australian workplaces and develop interventions that create genuine change.”
Renada Lee joins SuperFriend from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), where she managed their world-leading dataset and was a key contributor to the online Data Explorer tool. Prior to this, Renada worked with public sector organisations and market research agencies on a wide range of research and evaluation projects to deliver targeted insights. Renada has a Master of Science specialising in Applied Statistics.
Jamie Swann joins us from VicRoads, where he contributed to a program of strategic research and data collection to provide insight into the behaviour of road users and key stakeholders. Prior to this, he was with WorkSafe Victoria, where he was involved with a broad portfolio of research and evaluation projects. Jamie has qualifications in psychology, training and development, and an MBA.
Both Renada and Jamie will be bringing their insights to SuperFriend’s annual Indicators of a Thriving Workplace (ITW) research, with sector profile reports due to be released throughout 2019.
“Since 2012, more than 15,000 employees have increased their knowledge and skills around mental health and wellbeing in the workplace by participating in SuperFriend’s programs. Renada and Jamie’s insights will help us in working more closely with partner organisations to tangibly improve people’s lives,” added Ms Lydon.