Catherine Easton

Strategic Advisor

Catherine Easton is a trusted strategic advisor to boards, CEOs and executive teams in the areas of governance, transformation and change.

Catherine excels at building effective relationships to understand the issues and opportunities facing organisations and works collaboratively to develop solutions and recommendations. Her work is informed by 25+ years as an executive and board director working across the finance and community service sectors.

Catherine has an innate ability to consider opportunities and issues from a strategic and whole of organisation perspective, and ‘what it takes’ to implement with clients and teams delivering the services as front of mind.

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Capabilities

Transformation and change

  • organisational restructures
  • mergers and acquisitions advisory
  • operating model review / strategy

People, culture and wellbeing

  • organisational change strategy / management
  • position description development / clarification

Strategy, risk and governance

  • strategic planning / review / retreats
  • board evaluation / development / mentoring
  • board recruitment
  • stakeholder management
  • policy development /review

Organisational and business planning

  • strategic planning
  • operational planning

Qualifications and recognition

Company Directors course (including assessments), AICD

Bachelor of Business (Distinction), RMIT

Masters of Strategic Foresight, Swinburne University

Creating Collaborative Solutions: Innovations in Governance, Harvard Kennedy School

Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)

Women on Boards, member

Melbourne Forum, member

Chair, First Step

Executive Colloquium, Cranlana

Non-Executive Director, You Matter

Former Chair and board member; Arts Project Australia, Linden New Art

Former Committee member, Palais Theatre Community Fund

Lead Mentor, Fitted for Work

Policy & Planning Committee, Arts Project Australia

Folio Community Leadership Program, Leadership Victoria

Governance for Social Impact, Centre for Social Impact

Non-Executive Director, Mansfield District Hospital

Catherine's expertise sits in ensuring good governance for non-profit organisations, strategy and policy development, and developing strategic relationships across the sector. I would (and do!) recommend Catherine to any non-profit organisation requiring advice and/or support with governance, strategy and planning, and policy development. She is a consummate professional who really takes the time to understand an organisation and its needs and her breadth of knowledge of the sector and its challenges is vast.

Sue Roff,
Executive Director (2009-2023), Arts Project Australia

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