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One of the key focus areas of Champions of Change Coalition is to support Members in creating workplaces that are safe, inclusive, and respectful, aligning with contemporary expectations around behaviour and respect at work. With the introduction of positive duty legislation, the need for proactive strategies to prevent discrimination, harassment, and everyday disrespect in the workplace has become even more critical.

One of the key focus areas of the Champions of Change Coalition’s strategy is to support Members in creating gender-equal and diverse workforces that help them capture the performance advantage. The overwhelming experience of the Champions of Change Coalition is that when it comes to creating gender-equal workforces, accelerating more women into leadership positions through sponsorship matters. 

Champions of Change Coalition is pleased to announce Andrew Stevens as its new Chair of the Board effective 1 March 2024, succeeding Janet Menzies.
Andrew Stevens has been with the Coalition as a Board Member since 2016, a Member of the Coalition’s Founding group since 2011 and a member of the STEM group since 2018. Previously Managing Director of IBM Australia, Andrew also serves on the Boards of Stockland, Ooh Media, and is Chair of Industry, Innovation and Science Australia.

Champions of Change Coalition has released a draft resource: 7 Switches: A Guide for Inclusive Gender Equality by Design for stakeholder review and feedback.  This pioneering initiative aims to help embed inclusive gender equality at the heart of all decision-making and design processes, across everything we do and deliver.

The Champions of Change report, Closing gender pay gaps: our action and commitment, released to coincide with Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s inaugural publication of gender pay gap data for Australian private sector organisations with more than 100 employees, provides the median gender pay gap data for Champions of Change Coalition Members, together with a framework for understanding and responding to gender pay gaps and priority actions the Coalition is taking to close them.

The Champions of Change Coalition shares its 2023 Annual Impact Report. A highlight of this year was the release of a refreshed strategy with a bold new vision to achieve inclusive gender equality across workplaces by 2030. This reflects the ambition of the Coalition’s 260 Members to help lead transformational change on gender equality within a generation.

The Champions of Change Building confidence and trust in workplace responses to sexual harassment resource draws on insights from Champions of Change Members and 19 recent cultural reviews on sexual harassment to explain why the current systems for reporting and responding to sexual harassment are failing both individuals and organisations.

Progress advancing gender equality across Australia’s elite sporting landscape continues, in spite of severe financial and competition challenges during the global pandemic, according to the latest report from the Champions of Change Sport Group.

To accelerate change on gender equality in Australian workplaces, it is critical that leaders better understand, harness and, where necessary disrupt systems of personal and organisational power that may be impeding progress, according to a new resource from Champions of Change Coalition.

Over the past 10 years our Member’s feedback from their experience using The Leadership Shadow approach has further informed the practice. Their insights are incorporated in this edition of The Leadership Shadow which also broadens its purpose from concentrating on gender balance in leadership to addressing gender equality and inclusion.