In her current role, Dr Vicky Au focuses on building, scaling and sustaining initiatives across energy and materials end-markets, leveraging a global network to progress innovative solutions for an engineering and consulting firm. Named in the Hydrogen Economist's Women in Hydrogen 50, Vicky’s passions include research to industry translation and mentoring. Vicky has helped to inform domestic policy and strategy development, facilitated international collaboration initiatives to build new industry and led the expansion of corporate R&D and innovation advisory in Australia and overseas. Over 17 years, Vicky has mentored through organisations such as Mentor Walks, the University of Melbourne, PwC, CSIRO and Wood.

She completed her PhD in physics at the Australian National University with further studies through CPA Australia, the AICD and Harvard Business School. Vicky will be facilitating a session on Change Resistance vs Change Fatigue at the Women in Leadership Summit 2025. Leveraging her experience navigating large‑scale transformations and aligning diverse stakeholders, Vicky will offer techniques to apply targeted strategies that sustain engagement and keep complex change programs moving forward.