Building Successful Career Pathways with Catherine Fox AM 

Join us for an informal roundtable event with Catherine Fox AM who will offer insights into what women can do to equip and ready themselves for senior leadership positions and board life.

As Catherine notes in her latest book, Breaking the Boss Bias: How to get more women into leadership, the long struggle for women’s rights and a seat at the table has faltered in the last few years in the face of misleading stories about progress and strong bias about who should be the boss. There are fewer women running governments worldwide and little progress in CEO roles as inertia, resistance and backlash have fanned the idea of a post-feminist world. Leadership is still overwhelmingly portrayed as a masculine endeavor while women are underestimated and face an obstacle course of sexism to get into decision making. 

This event is for women who are considering executive leadership positions and/or stepping into non-executive director roles in the future. There will be opportunities to ask questions and network over refreshments.

Biography

Catherine Fox AM is a leading commentator on women and the workforce, an award-winning journalist, author and presenter. During a long career with the Financial Review, she wrote the weekly Corporate Woman column and for Boss magazine and has published several books. "Stop Fixing Women” was awarded the 2017 Walkley Award for Women’s Leadership in Media, and her latest book "Breaking the boss bias: how to get more women into leadership" was launched in 2024. Catherine helped establish the annual Financial Review 100 Women of Influence Awards in 2012 and was named a Woman of Influence in 2018. She has been a gender equality advisor to the Australian Defence Force, sits on the Australians Investing in Women board, and the Sydney Women’s Fund advisory council. In 2022 she was awarded an AM for significant service to journalism, gender equality and diversity.

Non Member $15