Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick (PhD) holds the Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology and is Director and Head of Research at the Centre for Wellbeing Science at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. She is the inaugural Director of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (2013 – 2015) and is a registered psychologist and Health Psychologist. Dianne founded the Positive Psychology Network in Australia and has previously served as Treasurer and Secretary of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and is currently on the IPPA Council of Advisors. She was made an IPPA Fellow in 2019. Dianne Co-Directed the 2008, 2010 and 2014 the Australian Positive Psychology and Well-being Conferences. Her research interests include the development and evaluation of well-being programs, particularly in the areas of positive education and performance optimization. She seeks to make learning about wellbeing engaging, personalised and practical. She specialises in innovative mixed method designs which utilise the latest technology and biological indices of well-being. Dianne has been involved in the development of numerous well-being measures and programs including the Wuzzup and MoodPrism apps, the Wellbeing Profiler and more recently she founded the Bio-Dash wellbeing and optimal performance program (bio-dash.com).