About Me

Collaborative Values

transformative compassion || emotional intelligence || embodiment || robust evidence and conversation || power with, rather than power over || intersectional feminist analyses || joy and humour || an appreciation of beauty || whimsy and creativity || radical self-responsibility

About Me

Dr Caroline Lambert

Creating progressive change through collaboration, with access to joy, an appreciation of beauty, an acknowledgement of the depravity of individual and structural injustices, and an eye for the resilience that comes with knowing you are part of intergenerational movements for change. These are all important parts of how I collaborate for change.

I am an experienced feminist practitioner with deep expertise in facilitation, policy advocacy and research, and organisational strategy and leadership. My work drives social change, particularly in the areas of gender equality and human rights, domestically and internationally.

I draw on over twenty-five years experience as a high-performing governance and management executive in the not-for-profit sector, and in feminist research and advocacy. My approach to strategy, research and advocacy, and leadership and professional development is grounded in collective practice, robust evidence, pragmatism, intersectional feminist analyses of power and gender norms, mindfulness, somatics, poetry, and creativity.

I tweet, oh-so-irregularly, from @DocLambertSays

I insta, even more irregularly, from @stardustbecoming

Facilitation

My heart beats more strongly when you ask me to work with you as a facilitator. I am recognised, locally and internationally, for my ability to co-create a great container for your work. My approach is grounded in a belief in constructive, well-designed collective approaches that draw on robust evidence and pragmatism, guided by mindfulness, somatics, intersectional feminist analyses of power and gender norms, poetry and creativity.

Advocacy & Research, Policy and Impact.

I believe in the power of evidence and people’s stories to drive social change. I have strong skills in feminist research, policy, and impact – most particularly in helping you co-design a participatory feminist approach to your research, policy and impact (monitoring, evaluation and learning) frameworks. And my advocacy heart has been beating strongly since my childhood. The lessons I’ve learnt along the way will support you in achieving your goals.

Feminist Leadership, Governance, and Strategy

What the world needs now is better leadership. Feminist inquiries into power, gender norms, and intersectional discrimination can help to profoundly shift personal and organisational leadership approaches, and offer new insights to governance and strategy. I draw on over 25 years of governance and executive experience, locally, nationally, and internationally, to help you ask new questions and create new approaches.

Caroline is deeply passionate about achieving equality for women and girls. She stands out for her capacity to always remain purpose-driven, strategically-minded and big picture focused, while also deeply practicing the values she advocates for, in her collaborative and compassionate approach. Caroline is someone whose work and personal approach truly embody a commitment to transformative, feminist social change.

Melanie Poole, Director at The Justice Map

Caroline is an exceptional gender advocate with a deep understanding of the structural and cultural barriers that impact women at work and society, in Australia and globally.

Yolanda Beattie

Impact Frameworks, with an intersectional feminist participatory twist

Over the past couple of years it has been a deep pleasure to work with extraordinary activists as they have co-created impact measurement frameworks that put intersectional feminist values and practices at the centre. Clients have included those with a focus on young women’s leadership; sexual and reproductive health and rights; and feminist philanthropy.

Theory of Change and Organisational Strategy

Listening deeply to folks across the organisation as they articulate the what, why and how of their work has been a critical component of co-creating a theory of change and principles of philanthropy for a global feminist fund. We managed this amidst the pandemic, via the magic of the interwebs, and with good grace, patience and creativity.

Feminist Leadership and Reflection

As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, I was delighted to return to a previous employer to work with them to co-create a series of workshops to support staff to adjust to the new rhythms of working from home, managing expectations, and individual and collective reflections on finding small joys, immense awe, and other practices of resilience. It was also a huge delight to work collaboratively with spectacular feminist colleagues to develop a chapter on feminist governance in women’s organisations.