1999

Fell into Recruitment & began my career in HR in my hometown of Sydney.

2007

Gave my notice from Recruitment & stepped into the world of high volume Executive Coaching, in Melbourne. Working with clients like Fosters, ANZ, Village Roadshow, Johnson & Johnson.

I started Catherine Nolan Consulting, delivering HR & Coaching projects for global clients.

2009

Moved back to Sydney & my babies started to arrive.

Suddenly I was up to 3 babies while delivering Coaching and HR projects largely from a home office, around the kids.

Working with leaders from businesses like Taubmans Paint, NSW Councils and Coca Cola Amatil.

2015 was a milestone year...

In March, I created Gender Gap Gone alongside CN Consulting, to empower women & girls to close courage & pay gaps. Because I'd noticed that even with mega doses of expertise, women didn't believe in their abilities as much as they should.

I was invited to speak at Leadership conferences...

The feedback was... a solid average. 

Amid the chaos of my gorgeous 3 at home, preparing for a Key Note talk to an international group of ICT Leaders in Sydney next morning, I was staring at a ballerina sticker on the kitchen floor. That tiny sticker I'd not got around to had come to symbolise how utterly imperfect I was, both personally & professionally. 

Until then, my talks had been kind of textbook. I'd followed popular thought on great delivery for a motivational talk. 

The feedback was fine. 

Fine. Not 'damn fine'. No girl wants to be 'fine'!!

So in that moment- my Ballerina Sticker Moment, I decided to tear up my talk. To turn my back what was working OK - my god-given gut-feel communication & choose instead, to be strategic.  

What followed was a flurry of awesomeness. The immediate feedback was loud and, like-

"OMG my plane landed this morning - THAT was what I needed to hear"

and

"From this moment, I'll be doing EVERYTHING differently"

Oh hun - so would I!!!

2016

My own personal Gender Gap widened. I became a single mother with 3 kids under 5, sometimes a homeless single mother with 3 kids under 5 in traumatic circumstances.

My personal re-build from Confidence Ground Zero, taught me HOW to build confidence in others. 

In 2015, through Coaching & trial & error I'd learned the DELIVERY & also how to HEAR, now I learned to teach EMPOWERED IDENTITY.

All 3 components of communication are critical... miss one and your communication is average. But when you hit all 3, your IMPACT is mighty.

2019

By the time we hit the Conference Industry shut down of 'COVID Season', I was regularly sharing the stage with Olympians, with World Leaders & Industry Leaders... empowering hundreds of other leaders at a time, to be more courageous through strategic communication.

My team had grown to 6 & we ran in-house events, as well as supporting Industry, Business & Community level events. The businesses we touched were exponential. 

2023

By 2023, I was a 5 Time #1 bestselling author.

The latest, Courage & Confidence, was a collaboration with 23 other successful Australian Businesswomen. It was picke dup by the people who run the red carpet goody bag at the Oscar's, in 2022 AND 2023. So all Oscars nominees from those years (Dame Judy Dench, Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchet, Brendan Fraser...!!!!

And my work empowering leaders and closing the Gender Pay Gap led to me receiving a number of Awards, both People's Choice and Judged Awards, in Australia and Global. Awards like Coach of the Year & Woman Changing The World.