• “Dean has produced a world-class guidebook on how we deal with traumatic wounds"

    Steve Biddulph, author of Raising Boys, Raising Girls & The New Manhood

  • ”The roughest, most honest, journalistic memoir of war I've ever encountered”

    Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco and Waging a Good War

  • “A gripping read ... I praise Dean’s raw honesty!”

    Senator Jacqui Lambie

  • “I have never read a more visceral & moving account of a person so at war with himself"

    Dr Mark Cross, psychiatrist, author of Anxiety and co-author of Changing Minds

  • “Dean Yates captures the after war of PTSD and moral injury in the most searing way”

    Nancy Sherman, New York Times notable author & philosopher

  • "No work has pulled back the veil on the consequences of trauma & moral injury like this"

    John Bale, co-founder of Soldier On and Fortem. Afghan veteran

  • "Dean raises important questions about the impact work can have on employee mental health and the support they get"

    Amy McKeown, Workplace Mental Health & Wellbeing Strategist

  • "A story like no other. Dean’s extraordinary journey is a gift to those who feel shackled by shame & defeated by trauma"

    Peter Whish-Wilson, Greens Senator for Tasmania

  • "Yates reveals an essential truth about recovery from trauma and moral injury, namely that it is a lifelong challenge"

    Professor Brett Litz, global pioneer on moral injury

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Public speaking & training

I am an in-demand, impactful public speaker.

Topics include my healing journey; mentally healthy workplaces; moral injury; men and emotions; eyewitness to the world.

My recent online and F2F presentations on moral injury have won rave reviews from WHS officers, psychiatrists, counsellors, social workers & people with lived experience. I am booked to present on moral injury at the WorkSafe Tasmania annual conference in late July 2025, & the ANZ Moral Injury Conference in Launceston in May 2026.

Keynote speech for International Men's Day in Hobart, Nov 17, 2023.

An Introduction to moral injury — F2F & online presentation

This presentation is suitable for anyone whose moral values are threatened in the workplace. But it’s especially geared toward frontline occupations; those in a leadership position (govt, NGO or private sector); WHS/HR & regulators; clinical & spiritual care teams. Among the things I talk about: Similarities and differences with PTSD; what will the addition of “moral problems” to the DSM-5 in Sept 2025 mean in practice; moral injury and the challenge for workplaces; & moral injury prevention and healing. For more information, see here

I deliver this presentation for Positive Solutions. If your organisation is interested, contact me directly through this website, LinkedIn or admin@positivesolutions.com.au

Selection of participant feedback:

“Dean’s presentation is the most dynamic & relevant on moral injury I have seen. He has taken his lived experience as a journalist in warzones and translated this into an understanding of moral injury that should be required for all.”

“Dean's grasp of moral injury is significant. He answered a number of long-held questions no one else has been willing to answer for me - or didn't know how to.”