Event Details
Time: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm AEDT
Date: 11 March 2026
Venue: Online
Registration Fee: Free
CPD point(s): 1 point (for RMIA members)
About Event
In recognition of International Women’s Day 2026, the Women in Risk event brings together members of the risk community to hear from two experienced risk professionals as they reflect on their career journeys.
Our speakers will share practical insights into the challenges they’ve faced, the successes they’ve achieved, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. The discussion will explore how professionals can navigate the risk management field, build expertise, and develop as trusted subject matter specialists within their industries.
This session offers an opportunity to hear honest perspectives, gain practical takeaways, and connect with others working across the risk profession.
About the Guest Speakers
Jen Creaton
Executive Manager Risk, Commercial & Personal Injury Insurance | Suncorp Group
Jen Creaton is a senior risk professional with extensive experience in business roles across risk management, assurance, and compliance within large financial services organisations. She currently leads the Commercial and Personal Injury Insurance risk function, providing oversight and ensuring effective risk frameworks, governance, and regulatory compliance.
Jen has held senior leadership roles across Suncorp Group, spanning consumer, commercial, and statutory portfolios. She has partnered closely with executive and operational leaders to strengthen risk capability, enhance control environments, and manage emerging and strategic risks.
Recognised for her practical and commercial approach, Jen is adept at translating complex risk and compliance requirements into clear, value-driven outcomes. She also serves as a Director on the Board of the Brisbane Racing Club, contributing her expertise in risk, governance, and business leadership.
Kate Gannon
Director | August Advisory
Energetic and creative, with a focused and pragmatic approach to problem solving, Kate brings two decades of experience consulting to, and working for, global and regional financial services businesses in London and Australia. She is a strong change agent with an ability to think both ahead and on her feet whether she is designing frameworks or leading teams through ambiguity or crisis.
She founded her own consulting practice, August Advisory, in 2021 after identifying a gap in the market for risk advisory support for purpose-based organisations. These organisations needed ‘match-fit’ resources to help them drive maturity where capacity and capability issues left them short. And then in 2025, she founded ResilienceSOS®, a bold strategic operating system that turns resilience from a compliance chore into a team sport. Blending behavioural science, change strategy, and creative thinking, it helps leaders, teams & organisations by giving them the language, tools and training to embed resilience where it counts - in everyday action.
Kate has built expertise across the spectrum of risk disciplines. This includes the design and implementation of risk appetite statements, profiles, frameworks, and policies – coupled with supporting organisations to seed and grow a risk culture mindset & movement. She is known for her straight-talking approach and for her ability to distil complexity into simplicity.
Kate was also recognised as RMIA's 2025 Risk Consultant of the Year, has a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Economics from the University of Queensland, is a chartered accountant, and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
When Kate is not doing risky things, she can be found learning some new skills (like AI or cycling) or at the beach or sport with her teenage sons