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Dr Fitzsimmons is an Associate Professor in Leadership with the University of Queensland Business School. He is the Managing Director of the Australian Gender Equality Council (AGEC), a body whose members comprise of peak national bodies representing 400,000 women across industry sectors in Australia. He is the director of the UQ AIBE Centre for Gender Equality in the Workplace.

In February 2020 he released a report in partnership with the Australian Workplace Gender Equality Agency examining leading practices in progressing workplace gender equality in Australia. In 2021 he released the ‘Towards Board Gender Parity’ report with the Australian Institute of Company Directors examining how Australia became one of only three countries in the world to achieve 30%+ women on their ASX200 boards without recourse to legislated quotas. In July, 2022 he released the ‘Experiences of COVID-19: The pandemic and work/life outcomes for Australian men and women.’ Looking at the gender differential experiences of COVID-19 on men and women.

He has published in the world’s leading journals on the topics of leadership and gender equality, advises many of Australia’s largest firms on issues of diversity and inclusion and speaks regularly in Australia and overseas in the area of gender equality. He has served as national and state presidents of not for profit bodies as well as a being a director on boards of Listed Public Companies in Australia and overseas. He is currently as Associate Editor of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal.