Output from

Employee Forums

A call to action

• We want to accelerate efforts to increase women's representation at senior levels in business, building on the work already

completed within our organisations and across the Male Champions of Change (MCC) group.

• Conversations with our people reinforced wide-ranging research on this topic which says there is no ‘silver bullet’.

• This paper therefore proposes a set of interconnected and transformative ‘big ideas’ to reset the current course we are on - where

representation of women at senior levels remains unacceptably low and the pace of change is far too slow.

• Taking action together will be the critical ingredient to achieving a long overdue step change on this issue in Australian business.

• The ten big ideas contained in the strategy:

o Are bold and taken together, amount to a co-ordinated, focused and systemic intervention

o Aim for a significant, sustainable increase of women in leadership positions and talent pipelines

o Address systemic, policy, behavioural and cultural impediments and enablers identified through the focus groups

o Deal with topics that are highly charged, deeply personal and often generationally nuanced

o Are inspired by our conversations with women and men in our organisations who are ready to lead and champion this work

Objectives Approach Criteria for action ideas

1. Develop a deep level of insight

into the barriers that need to be

tackled within our

organisations and broader

society

2. Work together to identify and

implement progressive, high

impact actions to increase the

unacceptably low levels of

women in executive positions

and pipelines

• Leverages the power of the

coalition acting together

• Delivers short, medium and long

term gains

• Thinks big

Getting to our plan

Synthesis

Insights

Plan

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What we heard in our focus groups

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The top action ideas

Suggested next steps

Meeting DATE Between Meetings Meeting DATE

Pre-read the document and detailed

background.

Focus for this meeting is on discussing

the ideas and prioritisation.

Agree ideas that will be taken forward to

Idea Definition by the MCCs

Focus for this meeting is on discussing

the idea definition for the three

completed ideas, and agree next steps

before next meeting.

Prioritisation areas for discussion:

a.Commitment – do we have consensus

and commitment to act across the group to

take this forward?

b.Sponsorship – is there a MCC excited

about a particular idea and will act as the

Sponsor?

c.Boldness and Impact – will this

significantly turn the dial on female

representation at senior levels in Australia?

Idea definition:

a.Which Champion will be the Sponsor of

this idea?

b.Which organisation(s) will implement?

(only Sponsor company/

all organisations in Action group/

all Male Champions)

c.What will success look like?

d.How will you measure success?

e.Key milestones and timing?

f.What is the proposed action?

g.What will each participating MCC do

differently to role model this change within

their organisation?

a. What are the detailed next steps?

b. How will we ensure continued

momentum?

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2. Sample Output