Design Conscious

Sarah Lawlor (host) speaks to Lauren Kajewski, Director Sustainability & Learning at Landcom and expert in corporate strategy. Lauren is an industry leader and advocate for strategic sustainable leadership, climate resilience, environmental protection, human health and human rights, and in this conversation she shares her advice on how to advocate with a loud, sound and credible voice. Lauren also shares her insights on leveraging different pedagogies to improve the pipeline o...

Sarah Lawlor (host) speaks to Ashleigh Gay, Head of Sustainability Leadership & Communications at Edge Environment. Ash brings her expertise in sustainability communications to explore what she calls the translation piece of telling a compelling sustainability story, as well as sharing some thought provoking reflections on the sustainability chameleons leading the next generation of business leadership. Ash poses this question in the podcast, is sustainability leadership ...

Sarah Lawlor (host) speaks to Karla Fox-Reynolds, Senior Project Manager at Climate KIC, based in Western Australia. Karla shares the tools she believes are equipping sustainability leaders to be the leaders we need in uncertain times, navigating a career and balancing family life, as well as her advice to ‘keep your fight’.Design Conscious is a podcast exploring diversity and leadership in environmental sustainability in the built environment, supported by NAWIC.

Sarah Lawlor (host) speaks to Divinia Eather, the 19 year old marketing manager at Eather Group, an Indigenous owned and operated business supporting the civil, construction and waste-to-resource industries along the Eastern Seaboard. The conversation spanned themes of diversity as a form of sustainability, contributing to the Indigenous circular economy, and a business model based on caring.Design Conscious is a podcast exploring diversity and leadership in environmental sustainability ...

Sarah Lawlor (host) speaks to Laura Hamilton O’Hara, social Ecologist, educator, community builder and CEO of the Living Future Institute Australia. Laura talks about her choice to lead with kindness, the impact and motivation of millennial leaders, and creating ripples of change toward a Living Future. Design Conscious is a podcast exploring diversity and leadership in environmental sustainability in the built environment, supported by NAWIC.

Sarah Lawlor (host) speaks to Margot Black, Head of Sustainability and Community at Charter Hall about changing the way money talks: social sustainability in times of crisis, and disruption as a driver for change. Margot also shares her thoughts on vulnerability, thought leadership, and the importance of finding your tribe.Design Conscious is a podcast exploring diversity and leadership in environmental sustainability in the built environment, supported by NAWIC.

Sarah Lawlor (host) speaks to Ian Van Eerdan, Associate and Sustainability Group Manager at Northrop. Ian shares his strategies of team management and leadership development through an awareness of personal strengths and weaknesses, and the need to shift the sustainability conversation from cost to value. Ian discusses why the purpose-driven nature of the sustainability profession attracts diversity, as well as Ian’s ultimate aim to make his job obsolete.Design Conscious is a podca...

Sarah Lawlor (host) speaks to Ann Austin, National Sustainability Manager for Lendlease Building Australia and head of Sustainability Engagement for Lendlease Group globally. The conversation spans themes of engagement, collaboration, and the necessary discomfort of change.Design Conscious is a podcast exploring diversity and leadership in environmental sustainability in the built environment, supported by NAWIC.

Sarah Lawlor (host) speaks to Caroline Pidcock, who is the Spokesperson for Australian Architects Declare, Chair of 1 Million Women, member of government design panels and lecturer at a number of architecture schools. Caroline shares her authentic interest and experience in regenerative approaches, developed over 30 years of involvement in professional, academic and community commitments, in a conversation about the power of community-led, bottom up movements, inverting and owning percep...

Sarah Lawlor (host) speaks to Anne Kovachevich, Foresight and Innovation Leader for Arup Australasia. Anne Kovachevich joins Sarah from Brisbane to discuss the transition from hypersonic aerospace to sustainability, gender norms in science and sustainability, and the critical role of foresight for our planet.Design Conscious is a podcast exploring diversity and leadership in environmental sustainability in the built environment, supported by NAWIC.