Dr Samone Mccurdy Email & Phone Number

Dr. Samone McCurdy is a gender equality strategist, researcher, and educator. Her expertise has assisted clients, students, and some of Australia's biggest employers to design and implement people strategies that drive gender- equal outcomes. Drawing on research and her formal training in Gender Mainstreaming under Meg Munn – former Minister for Women in the Blair Government in the UK, her formula for success is simple. Build a leadership team with the capability, personal insight and accountability needed to identify gender inequality and lead to create gender equal outcomes across the employee lifecycle.As the Executive Manager - Capacity Building, Samone will bring her knowledge and deep experience to lead change programs of impact across Australian workplaces through education and transformation programs and building communities of practice with impact and national reach. Samone draws on almost 20 years of experience in Gender Equality and Diversity leadership including recent roles as the inaugural Gender Equality Adviser to Victoria Police and curriculum lead on Gender, Policy and Family Violence for Monash University Dept. Social Work. She is a seasoned researcher and known for her deep understanding of implementation and the most robust levers of change and their applied metrics across public and private enterprise measurement. Samone’s doctorate, Opt Out or Lockout? focussed on capturing the voices of men in grappling with the gender equality puzzle. She examined Fathers’ participation in Paid Parental Leave and Flexible Work Practices and explored the changes in status, capital and agency at work and in the home as they made the transition to working parenthood. Her research and publications cover a range of topics where inequality is suggested including paid parental leave, responses to institutional sexual abuse, sexual harassment, out of home care and controversial policies such as income management and reproductive technology as an employee benefit. Her work has featured in numerous publications and conference programs both here and abroad. She is an engaging and credible expert on men advancing gender equality and a strong advocate of change on the employer and social policies that uncritically relegate women to the side-lines at work and lock men out of familial and social roles beyond “bread winning”.

Listed skills include Policy, Organizational Development, Research, Program Evaluation, and 11 others.