A personal message from our Head Judge & Awards Partner

Dear colleagues and peers,

As Director of Julia Gillard’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL), it is my pleasure to be involved in the L.E.A.D Awards for 2024 and partner with The Hatchery to deliver these awards.

I am honoured to work closely with such a distinguished and experienced judging panel and I look forward to receiving and reading some outstanding submissions. On behalf of the judges, I wish you the best of luck and look forward to celebrating with the winners at the awards ceremony and dinner.

Michelle Ryan

• You have the opportunity to nominate a colleague or peer in the Australian Public Service
• Nominating is easy, anonymous and takes less than 1 minute
• Nominees will be informed of their nomination and next steps

• Read the specific award criteria and eligibility before submitting and answer all required questions.
• Information within a submission is only shared with our judges and remains confidential. If we’d like to highlight a part of your submission for the awards night, we will reach out to you for permission prior.

• All submissions are screened by The Hatchery to ensure they meet our awards criteria and eligibility requirements
• Submissions that meet the criteria and eligibility will be put forward to our judges to confirm finalists

• If you’re made a finalist, a member of The Hatchery team will give you a call, prior to the finalist announcement, informing you of the good news.
• This is your opportunity to purchase a ticket to our summit which includes a ticket to the awards.

• All finalist submissions will be provided to our esteemed judging panel, who will judge against the awards criteria. Judges are required to declare any conflicts of interest, and their vote will be removed from that particular finalist to ensure the award’s integrity is upheld.
• Judges will individually give each submission a score and feedback, where they will then reconvene as a group to be reviewed as a panel, to determine the winners.

• At the awards night, we will announce one winner and one runner up, per category. They will receive a trophy and be given the opportunity to give an acceptance speech and of course celebrate with their peers.

The Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL) was chaired and founded by the Hon. Julia Gillard AC – the only woman to have served as Prime Minister of Australia – in 2018. We bring together rigorous research, practice and advocacy to better understand and address the causes of workplace gender inequality and the lack of gender diversity in leadership positions across sectors and countries.

GIWL (pronounced “jewel”) aims to overcome a disconnect between much of the current activity in the diversity and inclusion world, and what research evidence shows is truly effective. 

We seek to bridge the gap between those who generate evidence, and those who wish to use it, and to amplify existing effective practices and solutions being applied in different countries across the globe. 

The goal is to break down silos between sectors, nations and approaches and create a community of people focused on advancing gender equality in the workplace and beyond. 

GIWL has three guiding principles:

• Research – drawing together existing findings and undertaking new studies
• Advocacy and engagement – bringing together experts and stakeholders from across the world
• Practice – Translating research into evidence-based policy, practice, and training

With bases in King’s College, London and The Australian National University, Canberra, GIWL is built on a global network of researchers and partners working towards the common goal of advancing gender equality. GIWL ANU was established as GIWL’s first international base in 2018, with a focus on advancing gender equality across the Asia-Pacific region.

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