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We bring research, educational and legal expertise to evaluate the cultural and business needs of different organisations and work with their leaders to ensure their policies, protocols and training are contemporary and relevant.

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Testimonials

Culture and Reputation

As a Board chairman and someone who has run businesses in both the public and private sector, I know how vital it is for organisational culture and reputation to not only have the right policies but to model the right behaviours.

John O’Neill

Chairman, Surfing NSW & Principal of Komosion, a Management Consulting firm specialising in Customer experience Design

Highly Engaging Educator

Catharine is a highly engaging educator who works with real world scenarios to get participants thinking about how to manage complex workplace scenarios with clarity and insight.

John Butt

Head of Business & Legal Affairs at Endemol Shine Australia (Producers of Big Brother.)

Science and Art

Catharine and her team use science and art to shift perspectives on the toughest issues of culture.

Ben Burge

Chief Executive, Belong (a division of Telstra)

Blog

How to change tomorrow’s bad workplace culture, today

Tomorrow’s workplace culture issues can be addressed in today’s daycare centres - while today’s issues need to be addressed via...
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If a relationship at work ends, the more junior person usually pays with their career. That has to stop.

A man starts rubbing a young female journalist’s leg at a cafe. She is 29. He is older and a...
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How working from home humanises us  – and helps share the domestic load

Lockdowns have blurred the boundaries between people’s public and private lives enabling people to see their colleagues as “whole” people,...
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What will it take for Australia’s political leaders to take the issue of sexual assault in the workplace seriously?

How hard is it to understand? After much pressure, wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth (and an 18 month...
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Yes, Peter V’landys, I seek attention – to get action on stopping rape and domestic violence

Peter V’landys, the chair of the Australian Rugby League Commission, went on record last week to emphasise his firm commitment...
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Rape is not a ‘women’s issue’. It’s a men’s issue

I taught both my children about consent when they were still at daycare. I explained that sometimes they would be...
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Why every organisation needs ‘ethical bystanders’

Why every organisation needs ‘ethical bystanders’ To make the modern workplace safer, we need to encourage employees to take on...
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International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is a time for reflection on how far we’ve come but what is still left to do....
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Children interrupting Zoom meetings could be the reboot corporate culture needed

Until coronavirus, the invisible labour we all do at home was absent from our workplaces The other day I was...
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Here’s an idea: why don’t we get girls to talk to boys about their fears and desires

In 2014, I sat around a table with a group of 15-17 year old boys from a single-sex private school...
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College boys and sexual consent: there’s still a long way to go

As a young law student in the 1980s, I was sitting in a lecture theatre waiting for our lecturer to...
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Enough with the moral panic over smartphones. The kids are all right

A recent article in the Atlantic brings parents of teenagers fresh alarming news about the deleterious effects of smart phones...
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The reality is more nuanced than NRL players being blokey boofheads

As someone who has worked with the NRL as a gender adviser for over a decade the question I am...
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Australia still has a long way to go when it comes to sexism

The Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act came into being in 1984. It is worth reflecting on that because over 30 years...
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Next time you have a meeting dominated by men, consider how it is affecting homelessness

There’s a wonderful New Yorker cartoon that shows a woman seated at a conference table with five men. The man...
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