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    CEW members are leaders across diverse sectors in Australia, including government, business, sport, academia, the arts, and the not-for-profit sector.

    Our members share a unifying goal: to remove systemic barriers and create pipelines that enable Australian women to rise to leadership positions in their communities. This ensures a diversity of women's voices at every decision-making table while supporting both women and men to thrive—at work and home.

    Caroline Sharpen

    Caroline Sharpen
    Caroline Sharpen has worked as a senior executive in Australian and US cultural organisations for two decades, and in 2019 became Chief Executive Officer of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Caroline currently serves as Chair of Symphony Services Australia and previously Creative Partnerships Australia, Gondwana Choirs, Tasmanian Youth Orchestra and Australian National Academy of Music. Caroline remains Principal of her own Sharpen Creative Industries Consulting. She was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, holds a Master of Business Administration from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and achieved her Bachelor of Music (Honours I) and Graduate Diploma of Music at the University of Tasmania. In 2024, Caroline was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for leadership in the arts.
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    sharpenc@tso.com.au