Optimiss Consulting

Gender balance in business is a major issue globally. In the Australian corporate governance space new gender diversity guidelines and practices have been introduced and recent discrimination and harassment lawsuits have highlighted the risk for business of not developing and implementing a culture that supports women in the workplace.

Optimiss Consulting helps firms increase the number of women in their organisation. We do this by focusing on the recruitment of female talent and targeted retention strategies to keep senior women in your firm.

We help you build a vision and path with key stakeholders to improve your company’s culture, policy and leadership and generate collective energy for change.

We focus on increasing the numbers of women in senior managerial roles in Australian businesses and improving the pipeline of women managers and directors ready to move to the next level of their career.

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The Optimiss team is led by Kate O’Reilly a former Deloitte Director whose work with the Deloitte Inspiring Women program led to her winning finalist for the Deloitte Business Woman of the Year and being appointed to the Deloitte Emerging Leaders Council. Her experience includes global public and private sector roles in corporate finance and business advisory. Kate has previously been the Treasurer of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Australia.

The Optimiss team are experienced practitioners in gender equity, human capital, organisational change, business, communications and corporate governance.

The work of Optimiss is also guided by an Advisory Board comprising leading practitioners in business and gender equity.

Optimiss is a member of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI).