end of her five-year term in November 2020. Ferguson is also a board member of SCA Property Group, EML Payments and Hyne & Son Timber. In 2022 Ferguson was appointed as a member of the Nomination Panel for ABC and SBS Board Appointments. Ferguson is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and a graduate of the AICD Company Directors Course and AICD International Company Directors Course. #CelebratingWomen campaign In 2017, Ferguson started the #CelebratingWomen hashtag and social media campaign in response to the denigration women face online. During the campaign she celebrated two women, from anywhere in the world and from all walks of life, each day of 2017 to encourage, as she put it, "more celebration and less denigration of women". The #CelebratingWomen campaign saw Ferguson nominated for an Our Watch/Walkley Award for best use of social media. It has also led to many spin off campaigns around the world and in various industries. Writing In 2018, she co-wrote the book Women Kind with journalist Catherine Fox, which focuses on the collective shared power of women's networks and women supporting each other. The book was described by commentator and author Jamila Rizvi as "an impeccably researched love letter to those who hold up half the sky" and by Kate Jenkins, Australia's Sex Discrimination Commissioner, as "an essential and timely reminder of the collective power of women". Women Kind was named Management & HR Book of the Year in the 2019 Australian Business Book Awards. Since 2021, Ferguson has written the weekly "Got A Minute?" advice column in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, where she answers reader questions on work, careers and leadership. In 2023, Ferguson wrote Head & Heart: The Art of Modern Leadership (Penguin Random House). Academic career Ferguson studied a Bachelor of Arts degree and majored in History for which she received an Honours degree in 1994 from the University of New South Wales. Ferguson then completed a Bachelor of Laws degree with Honours from Queensland University of Technology in 2002. Ferguson completed a PhD through the School of Business at the Queensland University of Technology in 2015 and her thesis was called "A Study of Safety Leadership and Safety Governance for Board Members and Senior Executives". Ferguson's PhD saw her awarded a Colin Brain Governance Fellowship from QUT as well as the Dr Eric Wigglesworth Medal by the Safety Institute