Mary Freer

Biography

Mary has worked closely with health improvement leaders in many countries across the world to contribute to Australia’s healthcare system reform and bring about global improvements to social care systems.

Mary founded Compassion Revolution in 2016. The aim of her work is to cultivate a living awareness of compassion as a more systematic and whole-hearted way of living and working. Compassion Revolution was designed to embroider compassion, kindness and respect into the fabric of high quality service delivery by prioritising human and planetary flourishing to build cultures that are caring, safe and inclusive of everyone.

In 2026 she was awarded a prestigious Westpac Foundation Social Change Fellowship.
Mary has been the Executive Producer of five international Compassion Revolution Conferences and has built deep connections with compassion practitioners all over the world.

In 2021 Mary published her book Compassion Revolution: *Start Now; *Use What You Have *Keep Going.