Katrina Dawson

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About Katrina Dawson

Katrina Dawson is an People and Culture Leader and Director with broad experience in People strategy design, employee experience, executive and C-suite business partnering, learning and leadership, DEI, talent acquisition, reward, and leading implementation across all facets of People Strategy. With over 18 years of experience, Katrina has a background working in various HR Leader and executive partnering roles within large, publicly-listed and private, multinational organisations. Katrina currently works for Aurecon, an innovative and leading global design engineering & advisory company, where she leads the Talent, Careers & Performance centre of excellence. Katrina is also the Director of Body Barre Mind a holistic fitness and wellbeing start-up. Katrina has focussed her career on strategy design and leading change, partnering with executive leaders and teams to design and lead the implementation of strategy in the areas of Employee Experience; Talent Management & Succession Planning; Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Business Transformation & Change Management; High Performance; Leadership Capability Mapping & Development; Reward Strategy; Divestment/M&A DD; People Analytics; Talent Acquisition; Mobility; Risk Management & Business Continuity; Health & Wellness Strategy; Workplace Ecology and Design to Innovate. As both a Team Leader and a sought after contributor sitting on a number of executive leadership teams, she is passionate about design thinking, self-disruption, driving competitive advantage through culture and leadership, building future ready teams through learning and DEI, as well as sponsoring, coaching and mentoring to drive results through others.With broad experience in People strategy design, employee experience, learning and leadership, DEI, and talent, Katrina has focused her career on strategy design and leading change. She is passionate about design-thinking and partnering with executive leaders and teams to design and implement strategies that drive a sustained talent advantage through culture, learning and leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion.Specialties: Strategy design & implementationDesign thinkingLeadership capability Digital LearningDiversity, Equity & InclusionTransformation & ChangeTalent Acquisition Reward StrategyPeople Analytics Employee EngagementHigh PerformanceWorkday