Event details

Date: Thursday, 20 March 2025
Time: 12.30pm-2.00pm
Venue: RACV, 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne Victoria, 3000
Catering: coffee/tea & lunch provided (dietary requirements confirmed after registration)
Speaker: Dr Samone McCurdy, Capacity Building Manager, Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA)

Gender equality and diversity are critical to business success, helping to spark innovation, improve productivity, and foster employee well-being. With recent updates to reporting requirements in Australia for businesses over 100 people, now is the time to update your knowledge and capability in this area.

Join us for a practical and actionable session with Dr Samone McCurdy, Capacity Building Executive Manager at WGEA. Samone is an experienced gender equality strategist and researcher, with a career spanning public and private sectors. Samone brings expertise in gender equality programming, strategy, and leadership capability development, including her work on Victoria Police’s first gender equality strategy.

• Key stats on gender equality and its impact on business success.
• Support your organisation in meeting WGEA reporting requirements.
• 10 strategies to drive immediate improvements in workplace equality.
• New insights on enhancing attraction strategies and optimising the selection process in recruitment.
• The business case for gender diversity and how to create gender equal workplaces.
• Practical tips to help middle managers promote gender equality across teams.
• Key innovations for gender-equal recruitment

A quick shout out to our planet partners, CarbonInvoice. CarbonInvoice helps Frog Recruitment measure and mitigate any carbon emissions associated with the work we do. Learn more here.

About Dr Samone McCurdy

Samone is an experienced gender equality strategist, researcher and change management professional with expertise in gender equality programming, strategy and gender attuned leadership capability development.

She has post graduate qualifications in psychology and social work and holds a certificate in Gender Mainstreaming from the Civil Service College (London) where she studied under the Hon. Meg Munn - former Minister for Women in the Blair Government (2005-2007).

Samone has published research and analysis on a range of gendered workplace drivers including paid parental leave, flexible work practices and gendered workplace harm such as sexual harassment and workplace incivility.

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