It was a boy's club in Chicago!

Cathryn Wilkinson says … “The day my life really made a huge change was the day I got retrenched (from an advertising agency in Melbourne) … everything changed!”

After that day she took half of her redundancy pay (left half with her Mum for safe keeping) and began a lifetime in advertising on 4 continents around the world.

And whilst living in this fast paced, cosmopolitan and exciting world … and especially in the Chicago “boys club”…she new that this was not going to be the end for her, as she was never going to marry an American. She always wanted an Australian.

So, returning to Australia to continue this career was the key step to closing the “career loop”.

AND, as you would expect … she found her husband and left the industry by resigning in style … with her baby Emily in her pram in the boardroom of the Agency.

Cathryn now gives back to the next generation by being a mentor and tutor in creative advertising at Curtin Uni in Western Australia.