Principal Workforce Planner,
Department for Health and Wellbeing
Katherine is an experienced and strategic workforce planner with a strong track record in leading system-wide health workforce initiatives. She is skilled in applying data-driven modelling, labour market analysis, and stakeholder engagement to inform recruitment, retention, and redesign strategies, with a proven ability to align workforce planning with clinical priorities, emerging service demands, and long-term reform objectives to support a sustainable and capable health workforce.
Katherine is the Chair of the Department’s ‘Access All Areas’ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Employee Resource Group, championing initiatives that improve access, belonging and representation across disability, neurodiversity and caring responsibilities.
She is an active mentor with the University of South Australia (now Adelaide University) Business Career Mentor Program and the Department’s Peers Offering Peers Support Program, contributing expertise to support the next generation of health sector professionals.
Katherine is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA), member of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH), Vice President of the Australasian College of Health Service Management (ACHSM) SA Branch Council and Treasurer of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) SA.
She is passionate about innovation, ethical governance, and designing healthier systems for the future – and always open to connecting with peers who share a commitment to creating positive change.