Workplace Mental Health & Wellbeing Speaker
A lived experience story about ADHD, then the room takes over: live interactive comedy built from their own words. Delivered for Rio Tinto, BHP, MinRes, Roy Hill and Chevron, and across Perth workplaces, councils and community organisations.
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Most workplace mental health content is good, well meant and ignored. The room has heard it. They have had the morning tea, they have seen the poster, and they know the drill.
This is the same subject delivered by an entertainer and presenter. Macshane tells his own story of growing up with ADHD, the years of hiding it, and what changed when he stopped. Then the room gets the live half: interactive, improvised comedy built from their own words, on the spot, with nothing written and nothing rehearsed.
The message lands because people are still in the room when it arrives. It is a wellbeing session that works as entertainment, not a comedy set with a message bolted on.
It sits beside your EAP, your MATES-trained peers and whatever program you already run. It is never a substitute for any of them.
Lived experience, not clinical authority
Macshane speaks from his own experience. No diagnosis, no treatment advice, and nothing said on behalf of anyone else. He does not frame ADHD as purely a gift either, because the hard parts are the reason the message lands with the people who need it.
What the session does is the part a support service cannot. It gets a room that does not talk about this to spend an hour on it, and it leaves people in a good mood, which is usually when somebody finally says something.
He presented and opened the WA ADHD Conference 2026, is a spokesperson and community ambassador for ADHD WA, and gave a TEDx talk at UWA on channelling ADHD as a superpower through the creativity of rap.
“Beyond his freestyle comedy skills, Macshane is an uplifting voice for those with ADHD. We are grateful for the work he is doing in the community to challenge stereotypes and encourage individuals with ADHD to embrace their unique qualities.”
Antonella Segre, CEO, ADHD WA
Three ways it runs
The interactive show
The wellbeing message carried inside live freestyle comedy, built from the room's own words. The version for a crowd that has been talked at already, or for the end of a long day.
The presentation
The lived experience story on ADHD carries more of the hour, with a live demonstration at the end. For a brief that is awareness first and has to be reported on afterwards.
Built around your day
A shorter slot inside a conference, a leaders session and a separate one for the wider team, or a staff session plus an evening community event.
Zero production. A microphone if the room needs one, and that is genuinely it. No stage, no screen, no soundcheck marathon. Macshane has worked mine site mess halls, warehouses, school halls, council chambers and Perth ballrooms.
Based in Perth, Western Australia. Sessions run across Perth WA, regional Western Australia including the Pilbara, Kimberley, Goldfields, Mid West, Wheatbelt and South West, plus interstate and internationally.
Perfect for
R U OK? Day
The biggest wellbeing day on the Australian workplace calendar. Real campaigns, real budgets, and routinely booked the better part of a year out.
WA Mental Health Week
Western Australia specific, run by workplaces, councils and the WAAMH network, and it overlaps Safe Work Month so one booking serves both calendars.
National Safe Work Month
Four weekly themes, and the health week is the natural slot for a session that gets people talking rather than nodding.
Neurodiversity Celebration Week
The strongest single fit in the year for the ADHD lived-experience session. Plan it in the preceding quarter.
Men's Health Week
The most on-theme week of the year for a male dominated workforce.
Movember
Men's mental health and suicide prevention across the whole month, and most workplaces already have fundraising running that this plugs into.
World Laughter Day
Already delivered: Argyle Diamond Mine ran theirs with Macshane, moved to the Thursday to suit the roster.
Staff wellbeing and lifestyle days
Wellness days, all-staff days, conference wellbeing sessions and end of year functions, where the brief is a room that actually engages.
Lead times vary more than people expect. R U OK? Day is often booked ten months ahead, while World Laughter Day has gone from first enquiry to delivered event in seven weeks. Ask early for September and October, and ask any time for the rest.
It usually sits in health and wellbeing, not entertainment
This is bought by an HSE lead, a wellbeing lead, or people and culture, rather than by an events coordinator. That matters for two reasons: the budget behind it is set annually in advance rather than being whatever is left over, and it does not compete with the money already earmarked for the Christmas party.
For mine sites and FIFO villages there is a dedicated page covering rosters, site logistics and the WA Code of Practice on mentally healthy workplaces:
Delivered for
“I have never seen a crowd so engaged and cheering from start to finish. All our residents were laughing their hearts out. I especially loved the crowd work, to think so fast and rhyme from the random words given by the people, it was amazing.”
Karan Thete, Health and Wellness Co-Ordinator, Argyle Diamond Mine
“Stian was extremely kind and enthusiastic from the moment he arrived, he engaged the audience extremely well and was clearly given a positive response, evident through all the laughing and commotion. We highly recommend his return in the future.”
Taylah Jones, MESA A, Rio Tinto
Booking a wellbeing session
Is this a comedy show or a mental health session?
Both, and that is the point. The content is a real lived-experience story about ADHD, hiding it, and what helped. The delivery is live interactive comedy built from the room's own words. Teams who have sat through the conventional version turn up for this one.
How long is it?
Sixty minutes for either the interactive show or the presentation. A shorter slot inside a conference agenda works, and a longer day can carry a session for leaders and a second one for the wider team.
Is Macshane a clinician or a counsellor?
No. He speaks from his own experience and never from clinical authority, and he gives no diagnostic, medical or treatment advice. The session is built to sit alongside an EAP, MATES-trained peers and an existing wellbeing program, never to replace any of them.
Which organisations has he delivered this for?
Rio Tinto, BHP, Mineral Resources, Roy Hill and Chevron, plus FIFO villages across the Pilbara, and for ADHD WA and Canteen WA in a community setting. He presented and opened the WA ADHD Conference 2026 and is a spokesperson and community ambassador for ADHD WA.
What do you need in the room?
A microphone if the room is large or noisy, and that is genuinely it. No stage, no screen, no backing track and no technical rehearsal. It has run in mine site mess halls, warehouses, school halls, council chambers and Perth ballrooms.
Will it work for a tough room?
That is the room it was built for. Nothing is scripted, so there is no set to fall flat. The material comes out of the audience in the moment, which means a quiet room and a rowdy room each get a session that fits them.
We have had a recent incident. Is this appropriate?
Talk to Macshane first. Sometimes it is exactly right and sometimes it is the wrong week, and that is a conversation rather than a booking form.
What does it cost, and do you travel?
A flat fee per session, with a travel loading for anything outside the Perth metro area that is charged once per trip rather than once per site. More than one session or site in the same run brings the rate per session down, because the travel is only paid for once. He travels across Perth WA, regional Western Australia and interstate. Mine sites and FIFO villages have their own page.
Tell us the week, not the date
Send the date or the week, the room and what the day is for, and you will get a straight answer on availability and a fee the same day.
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