Dr Julie Bajic Smith
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Dr Julie Bajic Smith is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Wise Care, partnering with organisations to build psychologically safe, emotionally intelligent, and sustainably high‑performing workplaces.
Julie works with senior leaders and executive teams to design systemic wellbeing strategies, strengthen communication cultures, and reduce emotional load across complex environments. Known for her ability to translate complex psychology into clear, practical workplace tools, she brings a bold, modern, strategic lens to organisational wellbeing.
Her earlier work in aged care and mental health informs her depth of understanding, but her current focus is firmly on organisational systems, leadership capability, and psychological safety at scale.
Julie is recognised for her calm senior presence, emotionally safe communication style, and ability to guide organisations through challenging conversations and cultural transitions with clarity and confidence.
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Her doctorate explored wellbeing in home care workers, and her postdoctoral research focused on supported decision making in dementia. These foundations continue to inform her work today, where she advocates for emotionally safe workplaces, clearer boundaries, and cultures that reduce burnout and genuinely support the people who care for others.
Across her career, Julie has witnessed the quiet courage of those who hold space for others – leaders, carers, practitioners and women balancing multiple roles. She has also lived the realities of burnout and reinvention herself. These experiences shaped her signature approach: practical, compassionate and grounded in the belief that emotional safety is not a luxury – it is a necessity for healthy teams, sustainable leadership and human wellbeing.
In 2011, Julie founded Wise Care to bring evidence based training, leadership development and emotional safety frameworks to aged care providers, community organisations and workplaces across Australia. She has delivered more than 100 workshops on resilience, boundaries, communication and sustainable leadership, equipping professionals to care for themselves as intentionally as they care for others.
Today, Julie is recognised as a transition strategist, supporting individuals and teams through the identity shifts, workplace changes and emotional transitions that define modern work.
Her work spans keynote speaking, consulting, program design and her podcast From Aged Care to Everywhere, where she explores the human side of change with clarity, courage and heart.
At the centre of everything she does is a simple truth:
We matter. Our wellbeing shapes the way we lead, care and connect.
Julie’s mission is to help people stay grounded, connected and whole – one conversation, one team, one transition at a time.
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