Women Who Build
You worked hard to get women into your business. The next challenge is giving them reasons to build their future there.
Women make up just 13% of Australia's construction workforce and only 4% of construction trades. Source: Infrastructure Australia, Infrastructure Market Capacity Report 2025.

Build my Champion
A Champion is someone inside the business who understands where she wants to go. Groundwork helps her build that relationship deliberately, and keeps her next move, development focus and conversations connected.
My future
I can see what's next, and development leads somewhere.
My Champion
Sarah Mitchell
Project Director
My next move
Contract Administrator
Senior Contract Administrator
What I'm building
Greater commercial exposure
What I want to raise
"What would you need to see from me to trust me with greater commercial responsibility?"
My next move
Take a more visible role in the commercial section of the next project review.
Illustrative example. Not organisational data, endorsement or availability.
Groundwork remembers what mattered. Her Champion, development focus, conversations and next moves stay connected, so she doesn't keep starting again.
Career direction
She knows what's next, and why the work she does now leads there.
Development
Capability built for where she is going, connected to the job.
Someone in her corner
A real person inside the business she chooses, and builds the relationship with.
Practical support when it matters
An industry aware AI space to prepare, practise and think it through first.
This is the commercial intent of Women Who Build. It is not a guarantee of retention, promotion or opportunity.
Women Who Build
See how Women Who Build could help you retain, develop and progress more women inside your organisation.