Speakers

Jes Lim is a Melbourne-based Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) with a background spanning clinical dietetics, nutrition education, corporate wellbeing and community engagement.

Alongside her 1:1 clinical practice in Melbourne, Jes delivers nutrition workshops, keynote presentations and wellbeing sessions for corporates, high performers, sporting organisations and community groups. Her areas of interest include practical nutrition, gut health, cardiometabolic health, women's health, sports nutrition and healthy aging.

Her approach to nutrition education goes beyond simply telling people what they should or shouldn’t eat. Jes focuses on helping audiences understand the “why” behind nutrition recommendations, translating nutrition science into practical, realistic strategies that can be applied to everyday life.

Jes has delivered health promotion workshops and talks across Melbourne, working with community groups, sporting organisations and corporate residential communities. She has also delivered health promotion workshops and talks as part of programmes supported by Singapore’s Health Promotion Board.

Before becoming a dietitian, Jes worked with Singapore Airlines as a flight stewardess. Working internationally and being exposed to people, food and cultures from around the world has deeply shaped her perspective on nutrition. It reinforced for her that food is far more than nutrients. It is closely connected to culture, family, lifestyle, social connection and enjoyment. This broader perspective continues to inform the way she approaches nutrition education today, and has shaped her ability to communicate naturally with diverse audiences and connect with people from a wide range of backgrounds.

Combining clinical expertise with her experience across clinical, community and corporate settings, as well as international and public facing roles, Jes brings a fresh and relatable engaging perspective to nutrition. She is passionate about helping people understand the interconnectedness of nutrition, health and everyday life, and making evidence-based nutrition practical and genuinely useful, whether speaking to an individual, a workplace or a wider community

 

Talk Description

Fueling Your Vitality

How do you want to feel at 80 or 90, or beyond?

Strong enough to travel? Energised enough to enjoy your hobbies? Sharp enough to keep learning? Independent enough to keep doing the things you love?

In Fueling Your Vitality, Accredited Practising Dietitian Jes Lim explores how nutrition can help us build and maintain the health, strength and energy we need to live well at every stage of life.

Moving beyond diets, food rules and nutrition trends, Jes takes a practical look at the foundations of healthy ageing, from muscle and gut health to bones, heart, brain and hydration, and most importantly, the why behind what we eat.

Because nutrition isn't just about adding years to your life. It's about adding life to those years.

 

 

John Fitzgerald is a non-resident Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and Emeritus Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. He previously served as The Ford Foundation's China Representative (2008–2013), Director of the International Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific Studies at ANU, and Head of Social Sciences at La Trobe University. In professional leadership, he was President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2015–2017) and the Chinese Studies Association of Australia (2005–2007). A regular media commentator on China-Australia relations, his research focuses on Chinese nationalism, public administration, philanthropy, and diaspora histories. He has contributed opinion pieces to major Australian national newspapers and was awarded the Centenary of Federation Medal and Member of the Order of Australia for service.