Accelerate your career & break the habits that are holding you back
Take ownership of your future self & supercharge your career
Career growth is about knowing your strengths and deepening them, using them and applying them. It is about finding opportunities to intentionally create opportunities to grow. When was the last time you made a tangible investment in progressing your career?
Often, we are so focused on our job, we don’t create space, time and energy to focus on our career. If we don’t pause to reflect and consider where we are, where we want to be, and how we are going to get there; we can be stuck on a treadmill that’s going nowhere. We don’t ‘rise’.
Simply put, what got you here won’t get you there.
Women often face very different challenges as they seek to advance their careers and step up to lead on a bigger playing field. Seize this moment to put yourself first and find out how to rise as a woman leader.
Learn how to
Become the strategic manager of your own career
Discover the 12 habits holding women back in their careers and why
Break bad habits and adopt new ones that will help you accelerate your career
Make targeted positive behavioural changes with your own ‘Career Action Plan’
Become a powerful resource supporting other women to rise
Take your career to the next level and secure that next raise, promotion or opportunity
Kathryn Thomas, Director, KT & Associates (She/Her)
With a global career of more than 20 years as a Management Consultant and Global Learning Leader, Kathryn specialises in unlocking performance for people and their organisations. She has previously worked as an HR Senior Consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and held global and Asia Pacific Leadership roles with IBM Global Business Services. She brings deep expertise in adult learning, facilitation, leading change, and leading with impact.
Kathryn is Director in her own business focussing on people and performance both within Government and Private Sector. She is an accredited Executive Coach and has a passion for supporting women in leadership to thrive.
Kathryn Thomas
With a global career of more than 20 years as a Management Consultant and Global learning Leader, Kathryn specialises in unlocking performance for people and their organisations. She has previously worked as an HR Senior Consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and held global and Asia Pacific Leadership roles with IBM Global Business Services. She brings deep expertise in adult learning, facilitation, leading change and leading with impact.
Kathryn now is a Director in her own business focussing on people and performance both within Government and Private Sector. She is an accredited Executive Coach who has a passion for supporting women in leadership to thrive.
Your event experience
- Learn from current research and thinking on how women rise in the workplace
- Real-world learning with practical examples and case studies
- Walk away with a toolkit of practical resources, frameworks, tools that you will be able to implement immediately in both your professional and personal life
- Inspiring and practical: Brimming with “ah ha!” moments, you will leave this seminar feeling empowered, equipped and energised
Who will attend
Aspiring, emerging, and existing women leaders from all sectors.
- Manager through to senior leadership
- Early career & emerging female leaders
- Learning & development practitioners
- Consultants, lifestyle & leadership coaches
- Women returning to work from leave (maternity or other)
- Women in a period of transition
Agenda
Times will be shown in AEDT
Acknowledgment of Country, Opening remarks & virtual learning tips
Why are you here?
- Exploring options to strategically manage your career and why it matters
- What are your blind spots? Pausing, reflecting and noticing what’s holding you back
- Unpacking what’s different about what holds women back
What needs to change?
- Managing your career: Understand your habits, those that are barriers and those that are enablers
- What are the new habits you need to adopt and how can you create them?
- Accepting that what worked for you in the past might actually be sabotaging your future success
Morning break
How can you take small steps & bold steps to progress your career?
- Details: how to do less and delegate more
- Acknowledging your successes as well as those of your team: learning to take credit for yourself as well as to credit them
- Becoming a star networker: Growing, using and investing in your network
So, what is your ‘Career Action Plan’?
- It’s time to take action – building your career plan
- Reflecting on your next steps and committing to action
Close of seminar
Pricing
Save up until 13 September
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“I feel very fortunate that the first of this type of women focussed workshops was this one! Kathryn was amazing! Thank you.”
Natasha Mijok
Assistant Director, Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, June 2024 Public Sector EL1-EL2 Women in Leadership Masterclass
“Kathryn’s passion and her belief in our potential truly transforms the course. This course covered content and aspects which differ from other generic courses and is more realistic.”
Davina Savangsaengouthay
Network Engineer, Department of Finance, June 2024 Public Sector EL1-EL2 Women in Leadership Masterclass
“Wow, wow, wow, blew me away with the array of knowledge, skills, and reference material covered and transferred to the participants. One of the most effective and enjoyable courses I have ever attended! I felt empowered as a woman and leader!”
Sharon Rogers
Manager, Department of Health - Therapeutic Goods Administration, July 2023 Public Sector EL1-EL2 Women in Leadership Masterclass
“This course exceeded my expectations – after not doing any formal training in over 4 years, I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to attend this course. The facilitator was fantastic and engaging and I took so much away with me.”
Kayla Kendrick
Assistant Manager – Whole-of-Government Social Priorities, Department of Industry, Science and Resources, July 2023 Public Sector EL1-EL2 Women in Leadership Masterclass
“A wonderful course and opportunity to take the time to learn and reflect on how, why, and what it means to be a strong successful female leader.”
Hayley McIntyre
Assistant Director - IT Strategy, Governance & Change, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, August 2023 Public Sector EL1-EL2 Women in Leadership Masterclass