Trusted Advisors to Leaders on Cultural Change

EB&Co partners with boards and executives across industries to build safe, inclusive and high-performing workplaces.

Led by former Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick AO, we combine deep listening, robust evidence and international best practice to inspire action at the highest levels and deliver lasting change. We specialise in complex environments during times of uncertainty, bringing the voices and lived experiences of employees to the heart of decision-making and power.

Over the past ten years, our team has led more than 35 major reviews in Australia and globally, shaping reform across mining, law, government, emergency services, education, parliaments, professional services and the arts. Our expertise spans psychosocial risk, gender equality, systems change, workplace harm and trauma-informed practice.

At EB&Co, we listen to learn. We build momentum for change. We create environments for new ideas and pave the way for transformation. We challenge norms, inspire action and establish the conditions for workplaces where all people can thrive.

What we do

At EB&Co, we work with leaders and organisations to create safe, inclusive and high-performing workplaces. For a decade we have led some of the most significant cultural reform in Australia and globally, providing organisations with deep insight into the lived experience of their people, identifying systemic barriers to performance and inclusion, and delivering practical, implementable recommendations.

Alongside our cultural reviews, EB&Co provides ongoing strategic advice to boards and executives. This model offers leaders the opportunity to draw on our expertise and test real-time insights and learning, ensuring continuous improvement, adaptation and sustainable cultural change.

Our core focus areas

Trusted advice to leaders: confidential strategic advice, coaching and governance support for boards and executives navigating complexity, compliance and cultural change.

Deep listening and diagnostics: surfacing lived experience, identifying barriers to psychological safety, and shining a light on hot spots.

Practical solutions and experiments: test-and-learn approaches that translate insight into real-time action and lasting capability.

Global and cross-sector insight: sharing best practice and lessons from leading organisations to address harmful behaviours and embed inclusion.

Through both our cultural reviews and strategic advice, EB&Co helps leaders and organisations turn insight into action, building the conditions for lasting cultural transformation.

Elizabeth Broderick

Who we are

Elizabeth Broderick AO – Founder & Principal

Elizabeth Broderick is Principal of EB&Co. a specialist consultancy focused on high impact strategic transformation in gender equality, diversity and inclusion. She is a globally acknowledged leader in driving cultural change, particularly in male-dominated environments and has led over 35 independent reviews of national and global institutions.

As Australia’s longest-serving Sex Discrimination Commissioner (2007– 2015), she led pioneering reforms, including implementing Australia’s gender equality blueprint, progressing paid parental leave, and establishing key data on sexual harassment.

From 2017–2023, Elizabeth served as a United Nations Special Rapporteur, addressing human rights violations and authoring global reports, including Women’s Rights in the Changing World of Work.

Elizabeth is the founder and convenor of the Champions of Change strategy, engaging 270+ private and public sector CEOs to advance gender equality through disruptive, real-time cultural experiments and strategies.

She is Chair of the global board of trustees of Fondation CHANEL, one of the world’s largest independent foundations. The Fondation is dedicated to advancing the economic and social conditions of women and adolescent girls worldwide.

Elizabeth is a former member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Care Economy and now contributes to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Inclusion Lighthouse Programme. She is also a member of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (King’s College London) Leadership Advisory Council.

She is a former Board member of the International Services for Human Rights (Geneva), Special Advisor to the Under-Secretary General UN Women on Private Sector Engagement (New York) and a former Co-Chair of the UN Global Compact’s Leadership Group on the Women’s Empowerment Principles, (New York). She is a former Co-Director and Adviser, Partner Nation, to NATO on Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (Brussels) and a former Member of the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development (Washington).

Elizabeth’s contributions have been recognised with multiple honours, including as an Officer of the Order of Australia (2016), NSW Australian of the Year (2016), and seven honorary doctorates. Elizabeth is also an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.

Somali Cerise

Somali Cerise – Partner

Somali Cerise is a gender equality and human rights expert with 20 years’ experience leading initiatives across Australia and globally. She has a track record of designing innovative tools and influencing change at the highest levels. She has been responsible for several major global gender equality initiatives, including the OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index, UN Women’s global report on gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals, and the UN Secretary General’s 20 and 25-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

In 2021, Somali led the team at the Australian Human Rights Commission conducting the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces. She currently works on a range of gender equality initiatives with EB & Co., UN Women, and the University of Sydney. With EB & Co she has been involved in cultural reviews across several sectors including mining, professional services, aviation and the university sector.

Somali is on the advisory committee for the National Women’s Safety Alliance and a board member of ACON. She is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University with the Gender Institute.

Lisa Pusey

Lisa Pusey – Partner

Lisa has over 20 years experience leading complex gender equality initiatives, in Australia and internationally.

Working overseas for six years in several international women’s human rights organisations, Lisa worked closely with United Nations expert bodies to advance gender equality.

More recently, she was Adviser to Elizabeth Broderick (Sex Discrimination Commissioner), and worked with her on several major projects during her five years at the Australian Human Rights Commission. She led the National Review into Discrimination in the Workplace (relating to pregnancy, parental leave, and return to work), and also led key sections of the review into the treatment of women in the Australian Defence Force.

Lisa also works closely with Elizabeth and the CEO of Champions of Change to support, grow and execute the strategy, and has led the Coalition’s work on workplace responses to domestic and family violence. Prior to this she worked in the community legal centre sector.

She currently works on a range of gender equality initiatives with the Champions of Change Coalition and the University of Sydney.

Lisa is a member of the National Women’s Safety Alliance’s Policy and Advocacy Advisory Committee, Monash University’s Safe and Equal @ Work Advisory Board, and a board member of Women’s Legal Services NSW and Women’s Fund Asia Limited.

Lisa Ryan

Lisa Ryan – Partner

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.

Leigh Russell

Leigh Russell – Partner

Leigh is a distinguished executive and director renowned for her exceptional people-focused leadership. With a multifaceted career spanning over two decades, she has held roles such as people & culture specialist, CEO, board director, adviser, consultant, author, and speaker. Her diverse experience encompasses various sectors, including corporate environments, boardrooms, and Australia’s dynamic sporting industry.

After a successful executive career, including serving as the CEO of Swimming Australia and Netball Victoria, Leigh transitioned to independent consulting. Over the past three years, she has advised boards, CEOs, and executive teams on workplace culture, governance, HR strategy, organisational effectiveness, and adaptive leadership. Her expertise extends across sectors such as professional services, elite sport, government, and the arts, where she serves as a trusted advisor on complex workplace issues and best practice governance.

Leigh’s educational background includes qualifications in Behavioural Sciences, Business, Education, and Career Coaching. Leigh is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a member of Chief Executive Women, and an accredited Extended DISC Facilitator.

Lynette Garrick

Lynette Garrick – Director, Operations

As Director, Operations at Elizabeth Broderick & Co., Lynette oversees the firm’s business operations and supports Elizabeth Broderick’s national and international commitments. She brings extensive experience managing business operations across a diverse range of sectors, underpinned by a background in accounting.

Before joining Elizabeth Broderick in 2011, Lynette worked in the financial services industry, the not-for-profit sector, the School of Medical Sciences at UNSW, and the Australian Human Rights Commission. She also ran her own small business for 10 years.

Over more than a decade working alongside Elizabeth, Lynette has supported the delivery of major reviews, leadership initiatives and advisory projects. She oversees the day-to-day operations of the business, helping to ensure the efficient delivery of the firm’s work and the smooth management of client engagements.