ABOUT US
WHO WE ARE
Transforming Systems of Harm into Systems of Care
GIDII Advocacy is a fee-for-service agency helping leaders reimagine the systems they steward. Too often, workplaces and institutions built to protect and serve end up causing harm—through broken cultures, harmful narratives, and outdated models of power. Our role is to expose these fractures and equip leaders to repair them.Policies can set direction, but unless leaders embody them in daily practice, nothing changes. Transformation happens when values are modelled, not just written.
We deliver three core services that create lasting impact:
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Advocacy on System Design – guiding organisations to build safer, more accountable structures that support vulnerable populations.
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Leadership Training & Courses – equipping executives, managers, and advocates with tools to lead with integrity, resilience, and care.
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Film & Storytelling Initiatives – (via The Healing Lens) using documentaries and cultural campaigns to shift narratives and spark systemic reform.
Our work addresses not only physical and psychological safety, but also the deeper cultural and moral conditions that shape trust, wellbeing, and human dignity. In an era of intersecting crises and rapid technological change, the future belongs to leaders who choose care, courage, and accountability.
Work with us to build systems that heal and organisations that lead with purpose.
OUR STORY
Through powerful film, education programs, and strategic campaigns, we unite leaders across Health, Finance, and Government to confront and prevent moral injury in systems. By centering real-world insights and frontline expertise, we foster relationships that drive ethical leadership, strengthen organisational integrity, and build morally healthy organisations through sustainable, system-wide transformation.
OUR FOUNDATIONAL PLINTHS
HEALTHCARE
Women have higher levels of chronic disease and poorer mental health linked to sexism, violence and chronically poor incomes. Women experience gender discrimination in healthcare which can result in delayed access to care, misdiagnosis, and neglect. There is also a predisposition to medicalise the trauma and retraumatisation women and other vulnerable populations are subjected. Harm results in a reaction. Usually that reaction is a cry for help to stop the harm.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Women do not enjoy the same access to financial services as men. Even before the pandemic, fifty-six per cent of all those without a bank account were women - meaning that nearly a billion women are unbanked. There is also a gender protection gap, with fewer women using insurance than men. Source: ILO In Australia, Workers Compensation and Superannuation Products such as TPD and Income Protection all intersect with each other during claims assessment, often causing acute unnecessary moral distress.
GOVERNMENT
GIDII works to ensure vulnerable populations are heard and harm is minimised in government policies.
We urge the dismantlement of colonial systems that are also drivers of gender inequality. We believe in better system design and that requires engagement with multiple stakeholders. We also believe that all citizens genuinely want a kinder, more compassionate society. We bring issues to the fore to incite community discussion and positive change.
COMING SOON: SHATTERED - THE DOCUMENTARY
We started out to expose the cruelty faced by those injured at work within the Workers' Compensation system, but our investigation revealed something far deeper. We uncovered how a cost-saving software program developed in Australia in the 1980s and its modern descendants transformed workers’ compensation into a machine designed to process human suffering.
To honor those whose lives have been shattered, we had to dig deeper. What began in claims offices has metastasized into a global crisis of clinical destruction. Experts from healthcare, insurance, law, and lived experience speak to the widespread harm caused by a system in urgent need of radical reform.
Insurance giants. Government indifference. Secret claim denial quotas. Employers unknowingly bear the costs of this government-inflicted abuse. The brave few who speak out risk everything.
Some documentaries make you think. This one will make you rage. When the system meant to protect you becomes the very thing you need protection from.