Critical Care Summit is a biennial Australasian conference, aimed at providing targeted education and engagement for critical care practitioners, including paramedics, nurses, and emergency and retrieval physicians. The Critical Care Summit 2025 (CCS25) was hosted in Melbourne (May).
Conference theme: Mastering the essentials
Keynote Presentation - Mission Critical Teams
Psychologist and former SAS Team Commander Harry Moffitt shares powerful insights into how elite teams operate under pressure, adapt in real time, and deliver in the most demanding conditions. Drawing from decades of military experience and his current work in high-performance consulting, Harry explores the psychology of resilience, adaptability, and peak performance—offering valuable lessons for those working in the high-stakes world of critical care.
Presented by: Harry Moffitt, Psychologist and former SAS Team Commander. Managing Director, Stotan Group. Director, Mission Critical Team Institute. Founder and Architect, SAS in-service, Wanderers Education Program
Harry Moffitt is a practising Psychologist and former SAS Team Commander. He is Managing Director of Stotan Group and a Director for the Mission Critical Team Institute. Harry is also the founder and architect of the unique, SAS in-service, Wanderers Education Program. Harry retired after nearly 30 years with the Australian Defence Force, almost all of which was spent with Australia’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment. He completed 11 active service deployments, amassing nearly 1000 days of combat operations globally.
After being wounded in action in 2008 and repatriated to Australia due to his wounds, he returned to complete a further four deployments. Harry completed his time with the SAS as its Director of High-Performance. In 2020, he authored a bestselling memoir, Eleven Bats, a book about his military service and his love of cricket. Harry’s second book is due for release in late 2025.
Harry is based in Melbourne where he practises as a psychologist and strategic advisor across sports, corporates, and government organisations. He has a research Master of Psychology from Deakin University and founded Stotan Group, a human performance consultancy specialising in individual, team and organisational performance, in 2019. Harry is also the Asia Pacific Director of the Mission Critical Team Institute.
In 2008 Harry founded the unique Wanderers Education Program, which provides 'in-service' education support to soldiers in preparation for transition. Harry works extensively across the veteran community as a psychologist, mentor, and peer supporter. Harry is also an ambassador for the LBW Trust’s National Backyard Cricket initiative.
Harry has written broadly about human performance, leadership, elite selection, and gender equity in sport. He has lectured at renown leadership institutions including RMC Duntroon, AGSM UNSW, and Wharton Business School, high-performance organisations including SOG VICPOL and SOCOMD, and elite sporting groups including within AFL, NRL, international cricket and Australian Olympic Committee.
An AFL and cricket tragic, exhibitor, and singer songwriter for original SAS Rock band The Externals, Harry values integrity, humour, bricolage, and the Stotan philosophy
Moderated by: Dr Ben Meadley, Director, Paramedicine Ambulance Victoria
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