Catherine is one of Australia’s leading commentators on women and the workforce. A journalist, author and presenter, she is regularly invited to address audiences around Australia ranging from the Defence Force to corporates and local government, and often appears in the media. After working in the financial services sector in Sydney and London, Catherine joined the Australian Financial Review. During a long career with the AFR she edited several sections of the publication, and wrote the Corporate Woman column and for Boss magazine before leaving to set up her own consulting business in 2012. Catherine has written several books, including Seven Myths about Women and Work (New South 2012) which was shortlisted for the Ashurst Business Literature Prize. Her latest book Stop fixing women: why building fairer workplaces is everybody’s business was launched in April 2017. Catherine helped establish the annual Westpac/Financial Review 100 Women of Influence Awards and is on several advisory boards, including the Australian Defence Force Gender Equality Advisory Board and Australian Women Donors Network. She has a BA (Communications) UTS and an MA (Hons) UNSW.

Tracey Spicer is an iconoclast whose TEDx Talk ‘The Lady Stripped Bare’ has been seen by nearly 1.5 million people. Tracey has anchored national news, current affairs and lifestyle programs for several TV networks, and has brought her sassy style to talkback radio. Her ‘full-frontal’ columns appear weekly in metropolitan newspapers and on opinion websites. The 49-year-old is the cofounder and national convenor of Women in Media. Tracey’s memoir The Good Girl Stripped Bare has recently published. Tracey lives in Sydney,
 

Every afternoon on ABC Radio Brisbane and Queensland, Kelly Higgins-Devine promises a great chat, lots of laughs and excellent music. Kelly is currently working on her first children’s book.

Born in 1942 to an Irish father and an Australian mother, Sallyanne Atkinson has had a long career in politics and business. A former Lord Mayor of Brisbane, former Senior Trade Commissioner to Paris and former Special Representative for Queensland in South East Asia, she has been a nonexecutive company director since 1991 and is chairman or board member of several organisations. The author of Around Brisbane (UQP, 1978) and Sallyanne Atkinson’s Brisbane, she regularly appears on television and radio and contributes to newspapers. She is a mother and grandmother and lives in Brisbane.