Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Kate Gannon is a Brisbane-based consultant and coach helping bring colour back to risk management for Australian businesses. As the founder of August Advisory and ResilienceSOS – the two “sister businesses” she calls her own – Kate is a trusted partner to leaders who want to turn risk from a compliance exercise into a catalyst for clarity, courage, and confidence. Kate knows firsthand how frustrating risk management can feel when it’s reduced to box-ticking. Earlier in her career, she was often forced to follow processes that felt harder than they needed to be – disconnected from the big picture and adding unnecessary friction to the work. That experience drives her mission to design risk systems that are human, simple, and purposeful, so organisations can reduce fear and anxiety rather than create it. With 20+ years in industry, and over four years in business and with a small, bright team of risk transformation professionals, Kate has been recognised as Australasia’s 2025 Risk Consultant of the Year and trusted by some of Australia’s most respected charities and purpose-led businesses. Clients describe her as a partner, not a consultant – someone who brings empathy, clear thinking, and a sense of calm to even the most challenging conversations. Kate’s approach is practical and playful. August Advisory fixes the frameworks. ResilienceSOS fixes the chat. Whether it’s through diagnostic consulting, executive workshops, or the card-game-inspired ResilienceSOS conversation system, she helps leaders and teams build confidence in risk management by making it their own – not something to fear, but something to use courageously for themselves, their teams, and their companies.
Founding Director of specialist risk advisory services company, helping businesses build resilience and clarity for decision makers.
Built and embedded a greatly enhanced risk management framework; supported strategic program delivery across Brand, Cloud and Compliance; managed covid responses and major disruptions, including in cyber.
Supporting the embedding of three lines of defence, risk governance and accountabilities through the Banking Executive Accountability Regime implementation.
Supporting the improvement in efficiency, effectiveness and economy within the Queensland public sector.