Katherine began the world’s first social licence agency in 2002. Her business brought together specialised services including sustainable development, ESG, strategic foresight, risk management, and innovation in a way that created systemic and cultural change for her clients. She has delivered many firsts on behalf of her clients including the first resources company to address climate change; the first oil company to address Indigenous rights; and the first fisheries company to create new climate neutral products.
Katherine’s multi-disciplinary unique social licence methodology enables companies to select how far ahead of the curve it wants it’s strategy to reference.
It creates credible innovation where there is an emerging issue and also it resolves highly challenging issues. She has turned around significant crises that were threatening the regulatory and social licence of clients due to changing societal norms and values.
Katherine was Australia’s youngest A-graded female journalist at 24. The world’s youngest global sustainable development executive at 26 at a top tier resources company in the 1990s and now some 30 years later a world leading adviser on ESG and social licence.
Her board career began in 2000 after winning the Telstra business woman of the year award for the Victorian private sector. She has governed two education boards, three university boards, an environmental procurement board and she chaired a women’s entrepreneurship board. She has also been on a State and a Federal Ministerial advisory board on minerals development and forestry respectively.
