Fleur Katsmartin
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Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Fleur Katsmartin is the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), Victoria’s first public hospital. An experienced governance and legal professional, she has built her career in the health sector with a commitment to delivering legal services with curiosity, humility and empathy to create meaningful impact for the community. Fleur also serves as a Board Director at the Victorian Women’s Trust, a leading gender equality organisation, and is the Gender Equity Executive Sponsor at RMH. Her contributions to the sector have been recognised through consecutive finalist nominations for Corporate Counsel Healthcare Lawyer of the Year in 2023 and 2024.
With a deep understanding of the challenges facing women in leadership, Fleur brings practical insights into building confidence, cultivating an authentic executive presence and positioning oneself for progression in complex, high stakes environments.
SESSIONS
Day 1
3:25
Mini Leadership Labs
Lab A: Resilience in High-Pressure Environments
How do you keep people motivated when the pace is relentless? This session helps you sharpen the ability to make clear decisions in uncertain conditions, sustain your team’s energy, and remain composed when pressure builds.
Skills Learned: Decisive decision-making, stress management, sustaining team motivation, and role-modelling resilience.
Lab B: Building Executive Presence and Self-Belief
Executive presence is critical for leaders who want to influence decisions and advance their careers. This lab will help you strengthen self-belief, communicate with confidence and authority, and position yourself effectively for progression opportunities while staying authentic to your leadership style.
Skills Learned: Strengthening executive presence, communicating with authority, building self-belief, and strategic self-advocacy.
Fleur Katsmartin, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Lab C: Building Strategic Influence
Whether you are managing upwards, across or diagonally, influence is the currency of leadership. Learn how to frame ideas persuasively, shift thinking and gain buy-in from decision-makers across your organisation.
Skills Learned: Stakeholder engagement, persuasive communication, shaping strategic decisions, and driving organisational alignment.
Ally Nitschke, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Made for More
Lab D: Leading High-Performing, Inclusive Teams
What separates good teams from great ones? This lab explores the leadership practices that create accountability, trust and sustained performance. You will learn how to lead effectively through conflict, address underperformance and bring out the best in diverse teams.
Skills Learned: Building trust, fostering accountability, leading inclusively, and resolving conflict to sustain performance.
Elizabeth Kim, Head of Customer Experience, Product and Marketing, Transurban
Day 1
4:10
Keynote Panel: From Pipeline to Performance
How boards and executive teams are building sustainable leadership continuity and future-ready leadership pipelines in a volatile landscape
Where the biggest risks and gaps lie — and what’s being done to address them
Rethinking succession: From names on a list to building capability, adaptability and leadership depth
Strategies for making succession a leadership priority, not a background process
Moderator: Fleur Katsmartin, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Jacqui Walters, Non Executive Director, Port of Brisbane; Chair, UNIQ You
Fiona Notley, Chief Operating Officer and Vice-President, RMIT University
Meaghan Telford, Group Executive - Policy, Advocacy and Reputation | Co-Chair, Diversity & Inclusion Council, Medibank