Media & Appearances
Articles, podcasts and speaking engagements on Allied Health strategy, NDIS reform and provider sustainability.
Published Articles
Five Things High-Performing Allied Health Practices Do Differently
The five areas that separate practices that grow sustainably from the ones that plateau. Covers financial reporting, protecting time for business work, building systems that reduce founder dependency, recruiting ahead of demand and getting clear on your direction and point of difference.
The Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Habits of Financially Healthy Practices
A simple framework for practice owners who want to stop guessing and start managing their numbers. Covers the weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting habits that financially healthy practices build, from utilisation and invoicing through to cash flow, forecasting and scenario planning.
The NDIS FCA Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About
How the absence of standardised templates, minimum standards and quality gates created a market failure in NDIS functional capacity assessments. Covers how the FCA market shaped the OT profession, the structural incentives pushing assessment toward advocacy, and why the overcorrection of I-CAN carries its own risks.
Why Don't I Get Paid More? Revisiting Pay and Profit Margins in Allied Health
A breakdown of where NDIS billing revenue actually goes, from employment costs and leave entitlements to overheads and margin. Written for both clinicians and business owners who want clearer conversations about the numbers behind allied health.
The Future of Allied Health with ICAN and New Framework Plans
An analysis of the three major NDIS reforms reshaping allied health: the July 2025 price and travel changes, the ICAN assessment tool and the Thriving Kids program. What's confirmed, what's still unknown and how providers can start preparing.
Allied Health Live & Unscripted
Allied Health: Live & Unscripted is a bi-monthly LinkedIn Live show hosted by Trystan Conway and Chris Antartis. Each episode covers what's actually happening across the Allied Health sector — reform, pricing, hiring, leadership and the operational realities shaping providers right now.
Trystan brings the commercial and strategic lens from inside provider businesses. Chris brings the workforce perspective from thousands of conversations with therapists, leaders and hiring managers. Episodes feature live Q&A and guests from across the sector.
Episodes
Episode 2 — 8 May 2026
Covers the NSW Thriving Kids procurement announcement and what it means for private providers, the Mark Butler speech and its aged care implications, allied health's diminishing presence in residential aged care, the referral generation challenge, the billable hours debate from both a commercial and workforce perspective, part-time work and the three-day minimum discussion, team leader ratios and span of control, and why businesses should recruit leadership roles externally as well as internally.
Episode 1 — 13 March 2026
The first episode of Allied Health: Live & Unscripted. Covers the contractor vs employee debate, NDIS reform risks heading into mid-2026, thriving kids and I-CAN concerns, the state of the job market despite looming changes, new grad employment challenges, sham contracting risks, referral generation in an increasingly competitive market, and advice for sole traders navigating an uncertain landscape.
Podcast Appearances
Athletic Koala — NDIS Provider Growth Journey
Running an Allied Health business ethically and profitably, the squeeze on mid-sized providers, owner compensation benchmarks, the personal toll on directors and families, and why relationships outperform paid marketing for referral generation
7 Questions in 7 Minutes — navigating NDIS and aged care reform, modelling worst case scenarios, why good operators can win in an immature sector and the case for diversifying beyond a single funding stream
Sport, leadership and Allied Health — why elite team dynamics mirror the challenges facing Allied Health organisations
New graduate employment in Allied Health — a panel discussion with founders, a recruiter, a university academic and new graduate clinicians on recruitment design, supervision, flexibility and burnout
Scaling without becoming your own bottleneck — the shift from clinician to leader, retention vs recruitment, and building systems that support growth
Episode 75: Thriving Kids Program — the federal announcement, funding models and transition risks for paediatric and Allied Health providers
Want Trystan on your podcast or at your event?
I regularly speak on NDIS reform, allied health strategy, provider sustainability and workforce challenges. If you're looking for a guest or speaker, get in touch.