Experience

Basketball WA

• Australia
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Marketing & Partnerships Manager

  • May 2022 - Present

• Digital Marketing, Sponsorship & Communications - Basketball WA

  • Oct 2020 - Jun 2022



Perth Lynx

• Australia
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Digital Communications, Media and Operations - Perth Lynx

  • Oct 2020 - Present



Lauren Breen

• Founder & Keynote Speaker - laurenbreen.com.au

  • Aug 2015 - Present

  Lauren Breen is a local Perth girl, who has been working & volunteering in the mental health and suicide prevention sectors for over 10 years. After the death of her brother, Aidon to suicide in 2008, Lauren created The Aidon Project. It was a passion project that has developed and grown into the Lauren Breen Foundation ­ laurenbreen.com.au, a broad community based movement, aiming to raise the awareness and harness the voices of people with a lived experience of suicide. Within the paid mental health sector, Lauren was privileged to be the Team Leader for the Personal Helpers and Mentors & Partners in Recovery programs in her local community. Author of the book, “TRUST – Surviving the Ripple Effect of Suicide”, Lauren uses her lived experience, coupled with her desire and determination to impact change, to get involved in many amazing projects and organisations including, The Inner Ninja Foundation, Lifeline WA, Reach Out, Anglicare WA, LIVIN, A Stitch in Time and as a National leader in the Suicide Prevention Australia Lived Experience Leadership group. Taking her message worldwide, Lauren worked alongside fellow suicide prevention and brain health advocate, Kevin Hines over in the USA and has been involved with his documentary; "Suicide: The Ripple Effect". Lauren is across all things suicide prevention and mental health and is continuing to spread the message of hope & resilience to all the people she meets. If you ever wish to talk sports, Lauren is tweeting about it.



White Ribbon Australia

• Australia
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Marketing and Communications Advisor

  • Sep 2020 - Oct 2020

• Communications and Marketing Advisor

  • Jul 2020 - Sep 2020



The Kevin & Margaret Hines Foundation

• Director of Corporate Communications

  • Jun 2016 - Mar 2020

  Lauren was the Director of Communications at the Kevin & Margaret Hines Foundation. Lauren was thrust into the suicide prevention and behavioral health world in 2008, after the death of her brother Aidon, by suicide. Since that life-changing event, Lauren has accumulated over nine years of experience within the mental health & suicide prevention sectors, working in Australia. Before this, she worked in an array of industries, including; advertising, marketing, events management & PR. Alongside her own charity laurenbreen.com.au, Lauren hopes KMHF created an innovative twist in the way behavioral health is funded and facilitated. KMHF is a global team of dynamic peer leaders, social disrupters, and change-makers. We work across global sectors in innovative, diverse, and positively disruptive ways to change the current landscape of mental/brain health, wellness, and suicide prevention. We work collaboratively with our collective - delivering programs to corporates, school systems, communities, and law enforcement/military.



Anglicare WA

• Australia
• Non-profit Organizations
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Coordinator & Team Leader (Mental Health PHaMs)

  • Sep 2014 - Jun 2016

• PHaMs Support Worker

  • Oct 2013 - Aug 2014



Edith Cowan University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• School Offer & Communications Coordinator

  • Nov 2011 - Nov 2013



St John of God Health Care

• Australia
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Corporate Relations Specialist (Learning & Development)

  • Jan 2010 - Nov 2011



COMVERJ

• Advertising Services

• Advertising Accounts Assistant

  • Aug 2008 - Oct 2009



West Australian Football Commission

• Australia
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Corporate Relations & Sponsorship Coordinator

  • Jul 2006 - Jul 2008