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 – 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 a member 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 sits on global advisory councils, including the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (King’s College, London) and the World Economic Forum’s Future Council on the Care Economy.  She chairs the Gender and Disaster Australia Expert Advisory Committee.

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).

Her 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 an Adjunct Professor at The University of Sydney and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.

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 – 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. 

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.