Dr Katie Spearritt Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Diversity Partners helps organisations improve their performance by developing more inclusive work cultures that support, engage and promote people from diverse backgrounds and by developing inclusive customer experiences and products. As CEO, Katie leads a team of highly-experienced specialists delivering practical diversity solutions and inclusive leadership coaching to clients in Australia and overseas.Diversity Partners works at both a personal level – providing coaching to executives on contemporary people challenges – as well as at an organisational level by developing and delivering strategies and policies that help to create safe and inclusive work cultures.Katie has worked in almost every area of Human Resources for large corporates, including people strategies for mergers, outsourcing assignments, and implementation of cultural change and employee engagement programs. She has led teams in Australia and Asia. Katie is known for her ability to connect business and people strategies and is often invited to speak at industry events and conferences. Katie was Board Director of the Mental Health Council of Australia, from 2008-2011.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Responsible for culture and engagement measurement for the Australian region and the development and implementation of the bank's workforce diversity strategy aligned to business goals.• Facilitated executive teams on the integration of diversity and culture with business strategy• Delivered the Australian Region Culture and Engagement survey process and results • Led the first-ever Diversity Survey for the Australian Region and engaged executives on business unit strategies• Developed and implemented the strategic framework to build executive commitment to diversity and increase manager capability• Collaborated with HR executives on business unit culture and diversity strategies, program implementation.* Successful branding of NAB as 'employer of choice for women'

Melbourne, Vic, Au

• Developed the Coles Myer Diversity Strategy 2006-2009, endorsed by the Executive Team and CML Board.• Established the Diversity Council (CEO & Executive team) to champion the cultural shift to inclusive values and behaviours (focused on ‘inside out’ transformation).• Developed strong relationship with Board Members to facilitate high-level support for cultural change.• Championed the targeted development and delivery of advancement programs for women.• Delivered major improvements in the percentage of women at strategic, business and operational levels over a three-year period.• Led the development of leading-edge online diversity program for 7000 managers.• Led the integration of diversity and values into all people-based processes and leadership development programs.• Achieved significant increase in climate survey results relating to diversity and work-life management among top 200 leaders in late 2005 - the highest increases of any category in the survey and well above the global norm assessed by International Survey Research (ISR) for work-life management.• Achieved several company awards including: “Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Award” for employment of people with a disability (2005) and “Blue Ribbon” Award for percentage of women in management roles (EOWA 2006)

Houston, Texas, Us

• Developed Diversity Strategy for Asia-Pacific region for 2003-2005.• Represented Asia-Pacific in all global diversity conferences and initiatives.• Implemented range of initiatives to improve percentage of women leaders across Japan, South Pacific, India, China, Taiwan, Korea, South East Asia.• Initiated diversity metrics for Asia Pacific Leadership Team, and all people managers in the region.• HP executive representative for the Global Summit of Women, South Korea, May 2004Previous roles at Hewlett Packard included Change Management consulting in the business consulting division and HR general management (including as Business Partner to Sales and Support business units).

Guest lectures to executives on leading diverse teams

New Links Workplace Project; (*This project was undertaken while completing PhD full-time) Worked with a team of academics and business representatives to develop the first national culture change model of work, family and community links in Australian organisations. Significant involvement in generating high profile for the project through media interviews and publications.Helped companies to measure the impacts of work-life initiatives by developing and monitoring performance measures.Published a major review of work-family practices in Australia and overseas (co-author Professor Don Edgar).Negotiated short-term secondment to Council for Equal Opportunity in Employment (Business Council of Australia) to develop national database on corporate programs and best practices.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Internal communicationsMedia liaison

Victoria, 3800, Au

As one of the first staff members appointed to the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University, helped to design and deliver research projects of academic and public interest. Prepared annual reports and successful submissions for research funding from business and university sponsors.

Phd, Business & Economics

Arts, English, History