2026 Speakers

Lisa Wragg - Event Emcee

Nurse Continence Specialist

Lisa Wragg has 35 years’ experience working as a Nurse Continence Specialist and is the Director of Continence First P/L, which has been operational since 2018. Her highly successful continence assessment and management service works with participants of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), recipients of Home Care Packages (HCP) and Short-Term Restorative Care Programs (STRC), Transport Accident Commission (multiple states), Workcover and private clients.

Lisa’s breadth of continence experience spans the life cycle working with children, teens and adults with complex disabilities, spinal cord injuries, behavioural and trauma related continence issues that are associated with bladder and bowel dysfunction.

Lisa has contributed extensively to this area of medicine, authoring multiple publications and chairing multiple steering committees relating to the development and review of continence resource information, online education programs, credentialing and customer care service delivery models for continence and urological care.

Lisa Wragg

Siobhan Hegarty

Clinical Nurse Consultant

Siobhan Hegarty is a registered nurse, clinical educator, and the founder of Kalkoup Community Care - a specialised community care and education service supporting people with complex disability and medical needs. With over a decade of clinical experience, Siobhan brings deep expertise across high-intensity supports, paediatric and adult complex care, and workforce education.

Her work is grounded in challenging assumptions within community care. Continually questioning “the way we’ve always done it”, while translating evidence into practical, real-world care. Siobhan supports teams and individuals to focus on what truly matters for safety, dignity, and quality of life, even in the most complex environments

Known for her practical, ethical, and no-nonsense approach, Siobhan is deeply committed to building confident, capable care teams. A strong believer in the philosophy that we are stronger together, she values collaboration in all its forms, mindset, hands-on practice, shared support, and collective growth.

Siobhan

Anita Brown-Major

Occupational Therapist and Founder of Thrive Rehab

Anita Brown-Major is an Occupational Therapist with more than 27 years’ experience and a commitment to inclusive, sex-positive healthcare. She is the co-creator of Cliterate, a 3D anatomical model designed with RMIT Industrial Design to make vulval and clitoral anatomy and physiology easier for everyone to understand. The model is now used widely in education and clinical settings to promote accurate, accessible, and empowering sexual health knowledge.

Anita is also an active member of the International Cliterati and a respected educator known for making complex concepts clear, engaging, and relevant to everyday life, intimacy, and pleasure.

Anita

Amanda Mouvet

Nurse Continence Specialist

Amanda has had the pleasure to work as a Continence Nurse Specialist for the past 23 years in the community sector. Even to this day, stigma still exists regarding bladder and bowel health, so she feels it is important to support our clients with skill and kindness. Having worked in her own small business for the past 5 years, Amanda has learnt many tips about working with our aged and disability communities. She would like to share some ‘pearls of wisdom’.

Amanda

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