Education

BA Hons, Monash University, Melbourne
Diploma in Education, University of Melbourne
MBA, Melbourne Business School

Experience

Taught in high schools for 10 years in Melbourne and Germany – mainly English and History.

Worked in government curriculum projects for five years including on several pieces of work that are still being used in the English curriculum in Australia today. Then joined a company that published textbooks for schools in Australia.

In 2000 she answered an advertisement looking for a Head of Research in executive search, and by 2005 she had become a full Partner at Fish Nankivell in Melbourne. In that role she established the firm’s practice in the not-for-profit sector, specialising in the appointment of CEOs and school Principals. She is now one of the foremost recruiters in Australia of Principals of independent schools.

Other Information
Kathy has written 10 books related to education. She has been non-executive director of a number of not-for-profit entities involved in education, sport and community housing. She used to be a keen competitive sailor and still loves sailing and the sea more than almost anything. She’s a great reader of everything except crime and horror – there’s enough nasty stuff going on in the world without reading more of it. But she loves to try to understand why things happened and why people behave the way they do, so she reads a lot of history and travels to countries where she can learn more about the history she reads about – England, Europe, the US, Chile, Israel/Palestine, India (including Kashmir), New Zealand and many other places, and of course different parts of Australia. She speaks German and is learning Spanish in preparation for many more travels in Spain and Latin America.