Kate Sykes is the founder of careermums.com.au, Australia's first dedicated careers centre and jobs board for working parents and parents returning to work. She also runs a recruitment business called Lift – liftrecruitment.com.au – and is a workforce planning specialist, working with businesses to implement flexible workplace policies and strategies for retaining parents after parental leave. She is a member of AHRI (Australian Human Resources Institute), the chair of the Canberra Business Council's Workstyles Committee, and 2010/11 Telstra ACT Business Woman of the Year.
