Building a stronger future for allied health
We believe when allied health works best:
- clients experience better outcomes
- clinicians have fulfilling, sustainable careers, and
- allied health businesses thrive
The Training Club helps move the sector towards that future through better systems, stronger capability and more effective use of technology.
About The Training Club
The Training Club exists to help allied health evolve in ways that genuinely improve the experience of the people within it.
For clients and consumers, that means better care, better communication and services designed around what people actually need.
For clinicians, it means reducing unnecessary burden and creating careers that are more sustainable, rewarding and effective.
For organisations, it means building the capability, confidence and foundations needed to deliver quality care, adapt to change and thrive.
Our work includes advisory, workplace training, online learning and speaking. The format may vary, but the purpose remains the same: helping allied health create better outcomes without sacrificing the people who make those outcomes possible.
About Jess Francis
The Training Club is led by Jess Francis, an occupational therapist, educator, speaker and strategic advisor.
Jess has worked across clinical practice, business leadership, professional education, digital health and sector governance. She understands the realities facing clinicians, the pressures carried by leaders and the challenge of introducing change without adding more complexity.
Her work focuses on helping people make sense of what is changing, decide what genuinely matters and translate good ideas into practical action.
She is known for being thoughtful, grounded and direct, bringing clarity to complex problems without hype or one size fits all answers.
Experience and perspective
Jess brings more than 15 years of experience across allied health, leadership, education, business and emerging technology.
Her experience includes:
- frontline occupational therapy practice
- building and scaling allied health services
- business ownership and consulting
- co-founding and working within digital health and startup environments
- professional education, keynote and conference speaking
- AI, digital health and technology implementation
- postgraduate research in virtual reality
- sector leadership and professional governance
- contributing author and journal guest editor on AI, technology and the future of work in allied health
She has worked with clinicians, practice owners, professional associations, universities, health technology companies and organisations across Australia and internationally.
This breadth of experience allows her to bridge clinical reality, organisational complexity and emerging technology and to contribute to both the practical implementation and wider professional conversation shaping allied health.
Our approach
Start with the problem, not the tool
AI is not the goal. Solving the right problem is.
We begin by understanding what is happening, who it is affecting and what better could look like.
From there, we help identify the most practical way forward; whether that involves education, workflow change, leadership support, technology, implementation planning or a combination of approaches.
The work is grounded in clinical reality and focused on outcomes that matter:
- better experiences and outcomes for clients
- more sustainable and fulfilling work for clinicians
- stronger, healthier allied health organisations
Ready to create better conditions for good allied health work?
Explore practical support through advisory, workplace training, speaking and online learning.