JOIN US FOR THIS UNIQUE WEBINAR SERIES around divorce

If you’re a financial adviser, lawyer, accountant, counsellor or other professional working with men and women thinking about divorce this webinar will provide tips from experts that might assist you helping your clients.

The Stella Network is a networking group to encourage more women into careers in financial planning. Its aim is to expand the network to other professionals in the advice ecosystem in the hope that this will encourage more women to seek advice and become financially better off.

Stella is launching a four-part series on divorce – on how financial advisers and other professionals work with clients during this time.

The first session is:

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THINKING ABOUT SPLITTING?

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27th august 2025

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12noon – 1.30pm

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FREE

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REGISTER HERE!

Before your client makes the decision to split from her partner – she will need to know her financial position and how the split will likely impact her and her family. She will need to talk to professionals and start building her team.

Depending on the complexities of her position – she will need at minimum a lawyer and a financial adviser and then perhaps a forensic accountant.

Questions to cover:

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What does a forensic accountant do and why would you need one?

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Which professional is approached first and how do they work with each other?

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The client is most likely to see an adviser or lawyer in the first instance, when might you bring in an accountant?

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Can you give examples of advice you may give clients at this stage of their journey – financial and other?

The session will see a panel of four incredible speakers – Dominique Bergel-Grant, a divorce coach and mediator; Suzanne Delbridge, forensic accountant, Cathryn Gross, financial adviser, and Susan Warda, lawyer.

Each of these women is extremely experienced and approaches the topic of divorce from a different standpoint.

Please register here for this exclusive event!!

Designed to offer an opportunity to expand your knowledge and your network.

Meet the Panel

Dominique Bergel-Grant

Dominique Bergel-Grant is a multi-award-winning financial planner with over 20 years’ experience. She specialises in assisting individuals and couples navigating divorce. Adding to her financial planning expertise, Dominique is also a CDC Certified Divorce Coach and Transition and Recovery Specialist, a nationally accredited mediator, and trained as a collaborative law specialist as both a financial neutral and a facilitator supporting divorcing couples through the collaborative law process.

Suzanne Delbridge
Director, Delbridge Forensic Accounting

Suzanne is a Director of Delbridge Forensic Accounting, a Fellow of Chartered Accountants, Australia and New Zealand and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Suzanne specialises in the valuation of equity and businesses of all sizes, the investigation of transactions and quantification of losses, and the structuring of settlements to achieve effective outcomes. The Newcastle based practice headed by Suzanne completes work all over Australia, primarily for the purpose of litigation, with a particular interest in the Family Law jurisdiction.

Suzanne is regularly retained as an expert witness in property proceedings before the Federal Circuit Court and Family Court of Australia and the Family Court of Western Australia. She has also been retained as a single expert witness since the introduction of those rules in the Family Law jurisdiction in Australia in 2004. Suzanne is also regular writer and presenter of education on topics relevant to lawyers and accountants, particularly in the areas of business valuation and forensic accounting generally.

Cathryn Gross
Principal adviser and senior partner, Minchin Moore

Cathryn joined the business as partner in 2019 via a merger of her own practice, Twelve Wealth, with Minchin Moore. She specializes in working with women who require financial advice as they work through separation, divorce and probate. Cathryn has a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Science and a Graduate Diploma of Financial Planning. She has more than 20 years’ experience in financial service and is an accredited executive coach.

Before founding Twelve Wealth, Cathryn worked with women on a leadership journey as an executive coach. Prior to that, she spent more than 10 years working across corporate finance and institutional sales roles at a global investment bank and large trading bank.

Cathryn has sat on ASIC’s Financial Advisers Consultative Committee and is currently a member of the investment committee for the Rugby League Players Retirement Fund.

Susan Warda
Partner, Mills Oakley

Susan Warda is a Partner and team leader of the Sydney family law practice. Susan has particular expertise in family law matters that involve complex financial issues, including property settlements that incorporate family businesses, multiple assets and assets outside Australia. Susan is an accredited specialist in family law, a collaborative lawyer and a parenting coordinator.

Susan has over 30 years’ experience and has a reputation for achieving the best possible outcomes for her clients. Whilst Susan is a seasoned advocate for her clients’ best interests in court, she is also highly regarded for her extensive experience in resolving family law matters outside the courtroom. A trained collaborative law practitioner and skilful negotiator, Susan helps clients reach amicable resolutions through mediation, avoiding the cost and stress of prolonged litigation.

Julia Newbould
CEO, The Stella Network

Julia is an accomplished finance writer, speaker and author, with a strong connection to and interest in the performing arts and fashion.

She is is a former Managing Editor of Money magazine and co-authored The Joy of Money, which won Best Personal Finance and Investment book at the Australian Business Book Awards in 2020. She was a founder of the Stella Network, which was launched in 2013 by BT Financial Group to encourage and champion women in financial services.

An experienced conference host and public speaker, Julia has appeared on the Today Show talking about money. She is a regular theatre reviewer for Theatre Now.

She is a senior communications manager at the FAAA and prior to that she was managing editor at Conexus Financial curating content for events for superannuation chief investment officers, financial advisers and licensees.
Julia is currently co-writing a second book in the Joy of Money series.