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Virginia Scully

Virginia Scully is a People and Culture expert specialising in mental health and psychosocial safety. With nearly 30 years in the creative and media industry, she blends deep professional expertise with lived experience that shapes everything she does. ​ Her career began in advertising — a world of big ideas, late nights, and external validation. Success looked shiny on the outside, but underneath she often felt like an imposter. ​ At 17, Virginia watched her mother survive breast cancer and later lost her sister Gabrielle — a young mother of four — to the same disease. Years later, her nephew died by suicide after the health system failed him when he reached out for help. These experiences gave Virginia the ability to see what others often miss — the quiet warning signs of struggle, disconnection, and burnout. ​ After becoming a mother, Virginia returned to an industry that hadn’t evolved with her. Once again, she felt the clash between human reality and professional expectations — and decided to redefine success on her own terms. ​ Today, as the founder of Human Kind Collective, Virginia helps organisations create workplaces where people don’t just perform — they belong. She combines practical leadership experience (including scaling a company from 5 to 80 people without losing its soul) with her work as a qualified Mental Health First Aid Instructor to make psychosocial safety interesting, relatable, useful and "unboring". ​ Her mission is simple: to help others see what she once couldn’t — the signs of exhaustion, disconnection, and quiet despair — and to build cultures where kindness, authenticity, and wellbeing are the foundation of sustainable success. ​ Because Virginia believes the future of work is — quite simply — human kind.