Kate Mills is a highly experienced business journalist, thought leader, innovator, and speaker. She has previously edited Business Review Weekly and CFO Magazine and during this period she interviewed hundreds of leaders, chief executives, and chairmen-a rare opportunity that has given Kate a unique insight into what makes a successful business.
Kate is a thought leader in marketing and content, the future of work, creativity, diversity, and finding purpose and passion at work. She currently works as the CEO of a charitable foundation and leads a team with purpose and passion to make an impact. Kate is great at leading the conversation at a round table, conference, or on camera.
Kate is an entrepreneur and innovator. On leaving Fairfax Kate set up ProfessionalMums.net-an online platform for highly skilled women looking to re-enter the workforce or find flexible work opportunities. Through ProfessionalMums.net Kate matched women with flexible employers with the end goal of redressing the gender balance in corporate Australia. Kate is currently on the diversity board at BDO.
Kate is the CEO of a Foundation in an industry-wide collaboration across the property and construction industry to increase the number of bedrooms available for youth homelessness. Kate leads the industry with passion and purpose to make a difference in youth homelessness. Kate speaks on how to inspire and create teams that want to make a difference and connect to their purpose at work.
Kate is an accomplished speaker who lends an equal amount of warmth and intelligence to any event, be it a large flagship conference or a smaller, more intimate round-table event. Kate’s gift is to be able to host the event, mingle with the audience and pull together disparate themes and conversations during the event into punchy insights that the audience can take home with them. If you want to take what’s happened at your event to a larger audience, then have a look at Kate’s popular Conference Anthropologist package!
Kate has got an incredible enthusiasm for business and makes it really accessible to the audience. She's also got an eye for what's new and what's innovative and is usually ahead of the curve, so she's able to deliver fresh and valuable insights to the audience.
FairfaxWe used Kate as a 'conference anthropologist' and to MC our awards this year. Both services were great. Kate delivered a succinct wrap of the conference that we have been able to use to get out to both attendees and our wider audience and her MCing was pitch perfect! As she had been at the conference all day she was across what our industry was about and this created a great rapport with the audience. She was at the same time funny and complimentary about what investor relations specialists do and made it a night to remember.
AIRA
Kate has a rare ability when moderating and leading corporate discussions, roundtables, seminars, and think tanks, to engage the audience and produce compelling and interesting content.
GE Capital, Australia And New Zealand