CLW's
Advancement of Women in the Workplace Award (AWWA)
Award will recognise women and men who are leading the way in reducing
gender disparity, promoting
equity and women’s advancement in the workplace.
This Award
was launched in 2009 with its first group of winners being announced on
8 March 2010.
The 2010
recipients of CLW's Advancement of Women in the Workplace Award (AWWA)
had made outstanding contributions in their workplaces to advance the
empowerment of women. They pioneered in non-traditional workplaces
innovative strategies and programs in collaboration with relevant
personnel and in some cases with external agencies. The profiles
of winners' achievements spanned across several sectors including
Construction, Public Service, the Royal Australian Navy and the Police
Force.
The First
place Gold Winner of the 2010 Advancement of Women in the Workplace
Award
was Radmila Desic from Construction Skills Queensland for her
outstanding initiatives to attract, recruit, retain and train women in
the construction industry.
Winning
the Silver AWWA was Louise Perram-Fisk
whose Inspiring Women Series, designed to support women to develop their
careers and empower their lives within the Queensland Public sector is
now an ongoing program for the Queensland Government.
Commander Jennifer Wittwer from the Royal Australian Navy won the
Bronze Award for her
Navy Women’s Leadership Program, designed to provide Navy female
leaders with the opportunity to attend, and participate in, various
external leadership development events in support of the Navy’s
Leadership and Values Cultural Reform Strategy now named, New Generation
Navy.
Commander
Michelle Fyfe and Acting Senior Sergeant Erica Silwood from Western
Australia Police received the Highly Commended Award for
establishing the Western Australian Police Executive Committee for Women
(ECW) and its Women in Leadership Strategy that aims to make changes to
professional development programs so that women in the Force can build
their capacity to take on senior leadership roles in WA Police.
Inspector
Nada McDonald
of New South Wales Police Force also received the Highly Commended Award
for supporting and developing women within the Force through
implementation of strategies aligned to achieving workplace goals.
Individuals can nominate themselves for the Award or be nominated
by someone else but must provide supporting documentation from the
workplace in which the project was instigated. The Application will
require the nominee to address the questions in the application.
Nominees and supporting individuals may be interviewed on the phone by
Diann Rodgers-Healey for further assessment of the application during
the course of the judging.
There is
no fee for entering this Award. Applicants
must be Australian citizens, or have been granted permanent residence.
This Award will be open again towards the end of 2011. Please email CLW if you would like to be kept posted.
Applications will be judged by Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey, Executive Director of CLW; Nareen Young, CEO of Diversity Council Australia and Avril Henry, Principal of Avril Henry Pty Ltd.
NAREEN YOUNG
Nareen Young is the CEO of Diversity
Council Australia (DCA).
DCA
is the independent, not-for-profit
diversity advisor to business in
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understand and achieve leadership in diversity thinking and practice in an Australian context
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realize business improvement through successful diversity programs
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implement effective compliance management in a changing legislative environment, and
publicly demonstrate commitment to diversity.
DCA members have access to free or discounted services to support and enhance their internal diversity capabilities and external profile.
Visit www.dca.org.au for more information ...
AVRIL HENRY
Avril Henry graduated from the University of Cape Town in Accounting and
Economics, migrating to Australia in 1980, with two suitcases, $500 and
a dream to live freely and make a difference.
She embarked on a career which spanned senior roles in Finance, IT
Project Management, Change Management and HR. The companies she has
worked for include De Beers, Barclays Bank, Midland Bank, UBS Warburg
and Westpac. She has worked in South Africa, Australia, the UK and USA.
From 1994 to 2003, Avril held senior HR and HR Director roles at
Westpac, DMR Consulting Group, Merrill Lynch and Clayton Utz, with a
focus on leadership development, people management strategies, cultural
change and integration. During a time of significant cultural change at
Westpac in the mid 1990's, Avril developed and implemented two programs
on diversity and sexual harassment which resulted in two awards for
Westpac from the Australian Human Rights Commission. In 1996 she went on
to win a Silverscreen award for a video on child care titled "Care for
Kids" in Chicago, and received a special recognition award for her role
in producing a video titled "What's Sex Got To Do With It?", which was a
finalist at the New York Film and TV Festival Awards.
She is a past Chair and co-Founder of the National Diversity Think Tank,
a past president of the Sydney Business & Professional Women's Club and
was a member of the Westpac Delegation to the 1995 Beijing Women's
Conference in China.
KATY MCDONALD
Katy McDonad has degrees
in Arts and Law from the
2010 CLW Advancement of Women in the Workplace Award (AWWA)
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