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Catherine Fitzgerald

Commander · DISC type D
Head of Talent Aquisition, Pacific Advisory at CBRE Asia Pacific
📍 Greater Sydney Area, Australia

Catherine is a strategic Talent and People & Culture leader with over 20 years of experience transforming teams. As the Head of Talent Acquisition at CBRE, she focuses on uplifting capability, performance, and engagement. She holds a BSc Econ from Prifysgol Aberystwyth University.

Catherine recently returned to the workforce after a rewarding career break dedicated to full-time parenting for her two daughters, aged 12 and 13. She is passionate about her family and was excited to get back to work after they started high school.

She has a distinct passion for improving professional practices through automation and digitization to create simple, innovative solutions.

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Experience
17 Years
Current Role
Head of Talent Aquisition, Pacific Advisory
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Sydney Area, Australia
Personality Overview

How Catherine shows up

Risk-Taker
Very Quick
Impact-Driven

They are very proud of what they do. They are not focused on building rapport and relationships. More than the product, they care about the effectiveness of the product.

Priorities

Topics Catherine cares about

Talent Strategy
She has extensive experience setting the end-to-end talent strategy for major corporations like Optus, Vocus, and now CBRE, focusing on attracting market-leading talent.
HR Automation
Loves the challenge of improving practices through automation and digitization, indicating an interest in tech solutions that create efficiency and simplicity in HR processes.
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Career

Work history

4-2025
Head of Talent Aquisition, Pacific Advisory
CBRE Asia Pacific
5-2024 - 5-2025
Full-time parenting
Career Break
3-2022 - 4-2024
Head of Talent
Vocus
1-2019 - 12-2021
Head of / Director Talent Acquisition
Optus
4-2018 - 1-2019
Senior Manager, Strategy & Sales Enablement
Optus
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Education
1993 - 1996
BSc Econ
Prifysgol Aberystwyth University
2001 - 2005
Postgraduate Diploma
University of Wales, Newport
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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