Lydia Fairhall

The Reverend Lydia Fairhall is a priest in the Anglican Church Southern Queensland and a Conscious Leadership Facilitator whose work bridges spirituality, culture and systems change. With a professional background in executive arts leadership, festival curation and producing for theatre and film across urban and remote communities, Lydia brings a rare integration of creativity and contemplation. A dual recipient of the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship and the Australia Council for the Arts Community Arts and Cultural Development Fellowship, she has shaped a body of work focused on conscious leadership, spiritual direction and next-economy transitions for both organisations and individuals.

Lydia holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies in theology. She maintains an active arts practice as a singer-songwriter and writer, releasing two albums, True North and The Narrows, between 2019 and 2021.

Grounded, reflective and relational in her approach, Lydia invites leaders into deeper questions of meaning, responsibility and spiritual maturity in times of transition. Outside her work, she is most at home in the ocean, in church or in the bush, living a quiet life with her partner and two children.