Jeremy Limpens has spent thirty years at the sharp, often baffling, end of human behaviour. As the settings changed, the patterns of human behaviour however, were remarkably similar.

He has worked as an emergency and remote area nurse, flight paramedic, white water rafting guide, aid worker, university lecturer, project advisor, director of hospitals, executive manager, mediator, workplace investigator and in the most hostile of settings, kitchens in restaurants! — peeling back the layers of organisations that had lost their way — and what he can only describe as an accidental anthropologist, wandering into different human ecosystems and watching people do what people do.

The settings have been varied, to put it mildly. Emergency departments in Australia and abroad. Arctic Inuit communities in Canada's far north. Overseeing health, safety and security for humanitarian organisations across war-zones and natural disasters, from East Timor to Sudan, and places in between. Remote Aboriginal communities across the Australian outback. Maximum security prisons. Merchant ships off Central America, Alaska, and Mexico. Corporate boardrooms. Alpine ski slopes. And the occasional bar in a dodgy port town.

Across fifteen countries and thirty years, one thing remained consistent — people are complicated, but predictable. Staff and patients. Leaders and teams. Organisations and the humans inside them. Messy, resilient, surprising, and occasionally spectacular in their capacity to both damage and repair each other.

And the patterns? Conflict avoided until it exploded. Leadership that confused authority with respect. Systems that waited for collapse rather than preventing it. And underneath almost everything — the same human need to be heard, to matter, and to make sense of what happened.

He now consults with organisations navigating conflict, complexity, and the messier aspects of human behaviour. He works privately with individuals on mediation, trauma informed care, and the relationship between psychological wellbeing and physical health. He speaks — at corporate events, conferences, TEDx, and the occasional fundraising dinner. And he writes, including a tragicomical memoir currently in progress that draws on all of the above.

Here's the updated qualifications section, consistent with the voice of the rest of the about page:

A sample of his qualifications and training

• Griffith University, School of Health Sciences — Bachelor of Health Science (Registered Nurse)

• Griffith University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences — Masters in Health Science

• Deakin University, Faculty of Business — Post Graduate Studies in Organisational Psychology, Leadership, Management and Human Resources

• Monash University, School of Medicine — Mind Body Connection

• La Trobe University, School of Law — Conflict Resolution/Restorative Practice

• The Gawler Foundation — Mindfulness Meditation Training for Health Practitioners

• The Gawler Foundation — Meditation Teacher Training

• Non-Violent Communication

• Safety and Security in International Aid — United Nations, Thailand

• Acceptance Commitment Therapy

Conflict Resolution and Mediation

Trained in restorative justice, mediation, family dispute resolution, and group conferencing. Experience conducting mediation between large corporate organisations, community groups, and individuals — covering workplace disputes, workplace negotiations, complaint management, and family conflict. Thirty years of frontline experience means the theory has been tested in rooms where the stakes were real.

Examples of speaking engagements 

TEDx St Kilda

The Courage To Say Sorry In Health Care 

Boston Consulting  

Narrative Power - The Power Imbalance In The Health Care Sector

Ausmed Conference 

Leadership in Health Care - Keynote Speaker 

Global Business Travel Association

Annual Conference - Staff Health & Safety During International Travel

International Society of Travel Medicine

Annual Conference - Health, Safety & Security in Corporate Travel 

Ausmed Education 

2-Day Workshop - Managing Conflict In The Workplace  

Bayer CropScience 

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workshop 

ABC Radio

Reducing Violence In Hospital Emergency Departments  

Restorative Practice International Conference

Reducing Conflict In The Workplace 

Mandela Foundation

Aid Conference -  Health & Safety For Aid Workers 

Ausmed Conference

2-Day Workshop - Management & Leadership for Middle Management in Health Care 

RedR Australia

Stress Management In International Aid & Development