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safer design. Disrupting financial abuse.

Catherine Fitzpatrick is a former bank executive and the international authority on financial safety by design. She created Designed to Disrupt® to expose how domestic abusers exploit everyday products and services – and to help you recognise risks and protect yourself.

What isn’t designed to protect will be exploited to harm.

Safety isn’t accidental. It’s designed.

Learn

Explore the ideas behind Designed to Disrupt® – the perpetrator playbook for corporates, plus simple financial safety tips for you.

Act

Join businesses taking collective action to strengthen standards across industries.

Respect & Protect™

A campaign to encourage businesses to ban the misuse of their products for financial abuse – more than 60 companies on board.

Transform

Partner with Flequity Ventures to turn insight into practical action.

Engage

I equip audiences to see how abusers weaponise everyday products – and how financial safety by design can prevent harm.

Research

Stories

Financial safety alliance

A finance sector partnership building financial safety by design resources for industry.

One Generation

Australia’s business alliance against domestic and family violence, co-founded with Thriving Communities Australia.

Learn

Explore the ideas behind Designed to Disrupt® – the perpetrator playbook for corporates, plus simple financial safety tips for you.

Act

Join businesses taking collective action to strengthen standards across industries.

Transform

Partner with Flequity Ventures to turn insight into practical action.

Engage

Book a Keynote.

As technology accelerates faster than safeguards, Catherine delivers high-impact keynotes that reframe safety as innovation – and equip you to respond to emerging risks to women’s financial independence.

For questions you can’t ignore.
For harm hiding in the everyday.
For leadership that can’t wait.

“What truly sets Catherine apart is her ability to translate complex and sensitive topics into clear, actionable insights and frameworks that drive meaningful change across sectors.”

Meaghan Noble
Insurance Council of Australia

“Catherine is an inspiration and a powerhouse for change.”

Micaela Cronin
Domestic, Family & Sexual Violence Commissioner

“Your work is spectacular and this issue was evident throughout the work and hearings of the SA Royal Commission.”

Natasha Stott Despoja
South Australian Royal Commissioner

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

The products we design every day can be misused for harm – even when that was never the intention. This short quiz will show you how design choices affect safety across money, tech and everyday services.