After a career teaching and leading teams in higher education, most recently in governance of university internationalisation, Kate has transitioned in 2025 to work with a small Australian community focused organisation, Compassion Revolution. Compassion Revolution provides facilitation, coaching, training and co-design support to large health and social organisations seeking to achieve just and sustainable change, prioritising compassionate care for both services users and staff.

As Associate Director of Research and Design, Kate is currently engaged in thinking about ways of working that help organisations and individuals prioritise practices of deep listening, collaborative recovery of purpose, and an activist sense of hope. This engagement is particularly informed by the work and legacy of Buddhist systems thinker Joanna Macy.

Kate is also a community leader in public health governance, co-chairing the Community Advisory Council for her local health district in New South Wales. This brings responsibility for promoting the voices of those who need safe and accessible healthcare, and the kin who support them, to ensure that safety and quality improvements are informed by the stories of living experience, and not only by quantitative experience measures.

As a former oral historian, Kate is an advocate for compassionate listening, following the models advocated by the Australian narrative therapy community. Working with Dave Cormier, Kate is interested in developing responses to emergent discourses of uncertainty, and in opening up uncertainty as a new field for careful activism.