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As Brisbane Catholic Education’s manager for people strategy, culture and experience, Kristy Harrison is helping shape a workplace where people feel valued, included and empowered to thrive.
Recognised as an HRD Elite Woman 2026, she brings 20 years’ experience across Australia and the United Kingdom, shaping organisational strategy, leading transformation and building high-performing, inclusive organisations.
Harrison works at the intersection of people, culture and organisational performance, strengthening leadership, growing talent and capability, and improving employee experience. She is known for navigating complexity, shaping enterprise priorities, and bringing leaders and teams together around a shared direction.
Throughout her career, she has led multidisciplinary teams and organisation-wide programs across purpose-led, community-based and global organisations. This breadth gives her a distinctive ability to connect strategy, culture and delivery, while keeping people and organisational outcomes in view. Collaborative, values-led and ambitious for others, Harrison builds trusted relationships and creates shared ownership of change.
Her work creates the conditions for people to thrive, strengthens leadership pipelines and enables organisations to build the culture and capability needed for sustained performance. By combining strategic influence with genuine care, she empowers teams to turn bold ideas into practical, meaningful and sustainable outcomes for people, communities and organisations.
2A Burke Street, Woolloongabba, Qld, 4102
07 3033 7531
kristy.harrison@bne.catholic.edu.au
linkedin.com/in/kristy-harrison-ba570b51/
bne.catholic.edu.au
Kristy Harrison
Manager - People Strategy, Culture and Experience Brisbane Catholic Education
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Learning and development manager at Wyndham Vacation Resorts Asia-Pacific. Led learning and leadership development across the region, strengthening organisational capability, leadership pipelines, and succession in a fast-paced global hospitality organisation
2013–2016
Manager - HR, education and development at Holy Cross Services. Led the implementation of the People Plan through significant organisational change, strengthening culture, employee engagement, workforce capability and inclusive employment practices
2021–2022
Talent development and diversity lead at Brisbane Catholic Education. Led strategic initiatives across talent and succession, diversity and inclusion, reconciliation, leadership development and recognition, strengthening leadership pipelines and creating more inclusive pathways for employees to develop and progress
2022–2024
Manager - organisational culture at Brisbane Catholic Education. Led BCE’s culture transformation agenda, aligning culture, leadership and performance to support a high-performing and inclusive organisation; strengthened organisation-wide approaches to leadership development, employee experience and recognition
2024–2025
Manager - people strategy, culture and experience at Brisbane Catholic Education. Shapes and leads enterprise-wide people priorities that strengthen culture, leadership, inclusion and employee experience, building the organisational capability required for sustained performance
2025–Present
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