Our expertise is workplace culture

We provide high-level strategic analysis, assessment, advice, and planning to organisations that wish to transform and strengthen their practices and workplace culture, particularly in the areas of equality, inclusion and diversity. We step up beside courageous leaders, and their employees, as they build the organisations of the future.

We specialise in unique and complex work environments (often male dominated), to inspire action at the highest levels by taking personal stories to the heart of power.

We have a strong track record of success, supporting leaders and their employees across a host of sectors, including the military, police, private corporations, professional services, academia, government, the arts, and sport.

Our highly skilled team, with a wide range of backgrounds and deep experience, consult in Australia and globally.

Through our rigorous, proven approach, we have repeatedly shifted whole system thinking to achieve:

• sustainable organisational change;
• workplace social innovation;
• government policy development and implementation; and
• human rights based approaches.

We listen to learn. We build momentum for change. We establish deep relationships and create environments for new ideas. We pave the way for lasting cultural change. We challenge established norms. We inspire action, combining powerful advocacy with a thorough understanding and a deeply informed perspective. We understand that the collective is greater than the individual.

Who we are

Elizabeth Broderick AO – Principal

Elizabeth is Principal of EB&Co., a specialist consultancy focusing on high-level strategic consulting and transformation, particularly in the areas of gender equality, diversity, inclusion and cultural renewal, particularly in male dominated environments.

She was Australia’s longest serving Sex Discrimination Commissioner (2007-2015). One of her major achievements was the development and implementation of a gender equality blueprint for the nation, based on listening to the voices of Australians.  She played a significant role in the introduction of Australia’s national paid parental leave scheme and progressed major law reform including in the area of sex discrimination and sexual harassment. She established the nation’s data set on the prevalence of sexual harassment data, and built trend data which continues to inform evidence based policy today. Her review into the treatment of women in the Australian Defence Force led to sweeping cultural reforms.

In 2017 Elizabeth was appointed by the United Nations in Geneva as a Special Rapporteur and Independent Expert of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls. In this role, she carried out UN country missions and had a global mandate to issue official UN communications to nation states drawing their attention to human rights violations, particularly against women and girls. Elizabeth’s 6 year term concluded on 31 October 2023.

She is the Founder and Convenor of the Champions of Change Coalition (formerly the Male Champions of Change), a globally recognised, disruptive strategy for achieving gender equality, advancing more and diverse women in leadership, and building respectful and inclusive workplaces. Comprising seventeen groups of over 270 national and international CEOs covering every major sector of the economy.

Elizabeth is Chair of Gender and Disaster Australia Expert Advisory Committee and a member of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership Advisory Council, Kings College London.

In 2016, Elizabeth was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia and was named 2016 NSW Australian of the Year.

Darren Saunders – Senior Research Consultant

Darren is a Eureka Prize winning scientist, with over 20 years experience in cancer biology and neuroscience in Australia and North America.  He is the NSW Deputy Chief Scientist & Engineer and Executive Director of the Office of the NSW Deputy Chief Scientist & Engineer, leading independent scientific reviews for the NSW Government.

Darren has worked with EB&Co since 2017 as a senior research advisor and data expert on numerous reviews into workplace culture, harmful behaviours and systemic discrimination in the mining, aviation, education, arts and law enforcement sectors.

Darren is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Medical Sciences at the University of Sydney, has held senior roles in peak professional bodies – leading policy and regulatory reforms in science and technology, and is a regular commentator on television and radio. Darren is also a committed thalassophile.

Lisa Ryan – Lead Consultant

Lisa brings to the team three decades of experience working in organisational culture, systems change and leadership for social impact. Lisa has worked with EB&Co on a range of high-impact projects, including most recently the Review of Bullying, Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault in the NSW Parliament; and the review of gendered barriers to promotion within the NSW Police Force.  

A social worker by training, Lisa is highly skilled in designing methods that create safety for people to share their lived experience, and in working with people across organisations to leverage organisational strengths, identify structural and systemic challenges, and building a shared agenda for change.    

Lisa is an adaptive leadership specialist and brings to EB&Co a particular interest in the role of leaders in creating psychological safety and enabling both wellbeing and high performance. 

Alison Aggarwal – Senior Consultant

An innovative and strategic leader, with a strong commitment to gender equality, human rights and preventing and addressing gender-based violence.

Alison has extensive experience in being a strategic and trusted adviser in both government and civil society sectors and have also worked with the private sector in gender equality advocacy, policy development and implementation and capacity development.

With strong communication, interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills, Alison applies her advanced strategic and analytical capacities as a collaborator and as a manager to drive transformational change.

Jane Latimer AO – Director of Strategy and Engagement

Jane is Director of Strategy and Engagement at Elizabeth Broderick & Co. and an Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. For more than two decades, Jane’s research leadership has helped create practical solutions to community issues. Jane has attracted over $21.5 million to fund her research and has published her findings in the world’s leading medical journals including Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, and Lancet.

Through her work at Elizabeth Broderick & Co. Jane has become a leader and advocate for Women in STEM. She has worked with the Australian Academy of Science to accelerate diversity and inclusion and was appointed to the Expert Working Group that developed Australia’s National Decadal Plan for Women in STEM. She has been an Australian delegate at APEC Women in STEM meetings contributing to the development of an international framework.

Jane’s recent work has focused on developing leadership capability. Her Leadership Shadow project, conducted in collaboration with University of Oxford, involved interviews with Vice Chancellors and research leaders across Australia. In 2020 at the request of Australia’s first Chief Medical Wellness Officer, she worked with Clinical Heads of Departments in one of Sydney’s largest health districts to review Leadership Culture.

Her dual academic and culture roles have provided her with a unique insight into the cultural challenges facing leaders working in the health care and research sectors and how these might be addressed.

Lynette Garrick – Director, Operations

Overseeing the business operations of the organisation, Lynette brings to the team her extensive experience in managing business operations across a diverse range of settings and industries. With exceptional organisation skills, and a background in accounting, she has worked in the financial services industry, the not for- profit sector, with the School of Medical Sciences at UNSW, and more recently at the Australian Human Rights Commission. Before this, Lynette ran her own small business for 10 years.

In 2011, she began working with Elizabeth Broderick – the then Sex Discrimination Commissioner. Over this time, she was responsible for overseeing the logistics of a highly functioning, fast paced and effective team.