SEQURE CONSULTING

ABOUT US

A team of expert consultants committed to improving safety and achieving equality globally.

SEQURE CONSULTING WAS FOUNDED IN 2024

BY FOUNDER AND PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT DR KATE FITZ-GIBBON

SEQURE Consulting was founded in 2024 by Dr. Kate Fitz-Gibbon. SEQURE brings together a team of individuals committed to partnering with organisations, corporate partners, governments and philanthropists to advance efforts to improve safety and achieve equality globally.

Dr Kate Fitz-Gibbon is a Professor (Practice) in Leadership and Executive Education in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University. Kate is an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School at University of Melbourne. She is also the Founding Director of the Institute for Safety and Equality.

Kate is a former Professor of Social Sciences in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University and was Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre (Australia) from 2020-2023. She holds affiliated research appointments with the School of Law and Social Justice at University of Liverpool (UK) and the Research Center on Violence at West Virginia University (US).

KATE’S QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

PhD in Criminology (2012, Monash University),
Masters of Human Rights Law (2019, University of Melbourne),
Graduate Certificate of Higher Education (2013, Deakin University)
Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (2015, Australian Institute of Company Directors)

Kate has completed the Blue Knot Foundation training on ‘Using a Trauma Lens when working with Domestic and Family Violence’ and Koorie Heritage Trust ‘Cultural Safety Training’.

Kate is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of family violence, femicide, responses to violence against women, perpetrator interventions, children and young people, and the impact of policy and practice reform in Australia and internationally. The findings of her research have been published in leading academic journals and books, including: 7 books, 7 edited collections, 50 refereed journal articles and 25 book chapters. Kate has led numerous consultations and public reports, including for the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, several Victorian Government departments, Fair Work Commission, ANROWS, Australian Institute of Criminology, and for corporate organisations including Ikea Australia.

Kate has advised on homicide law reform, family violence and youth justice reviews including in multiple Australian jurisdictions, New Zealand (NZ), England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and to the United Nations and the Officer of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Kate’s research has been cited by the High Court of Australia.

In recognition of her expertise, Kate has been invited to sit on numerous Commonwealth government and Victorian advisory groups to inform reform of whole of system responses to domestic, family and sexual violence. This includes serving as an invited member of the Commonwealth Attorney General’s Trusted Advisory Group on Coercive Control (2021) and the Victorian Government’s Expert Advisory Committee on Perpetrator Interventions (2018).

KATE’S CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

2021-22 Kate led the National Plan Consultation Project. The project involved engagement with 492 stakeholders from 338 organisations via interviews and workshops, and 81 victim-survivor advocates. Findings directly fed into the development of the Australian National Plan to end Violence against Women and Children 2022-32.
2021 ‘Future Leader’ in the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Awards
2021 appointed Chair of Respect Victoria by the Victorian Government
2016 received 2016 Future Leaders Award, Council of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS).
2015 Kate’s sole-authored book, Homicide Law Reform, Gender and the Provocation Defence’ (2014, Palgrave) was cited in a judgment of the High Court of Australia.
2015 awarded Winston Churchill Fellowship to examine innovative legal responses to intimate violence.
2014 ‘Young Leader’ category of the Westpac and Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence awards

WHY PARTNER WITH US?

SEQURE Consulting is home to the academic, data and policy experts ideally positioned to support incremental and transformative change projects at the community, workplace, national and global level.

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