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Episode Summary Ceilidh Higgins spent about twenty years as an architect and interior designer before moving into workplace strategy with CBRE‘s Pacific Workplace Consulting team. That double vantage point — designing offices, then sitting inside a global property business measuring how they actually get used — runs through the whole conversation. She starts with a...
Episode Summary Sarah Buckeridge graduated into a serious Victorian recession in the mid-1990s, went to Singapore because there was no work at home, and came back to interview at Hayball as a graduate when the practice had about thirty people and one office. Three decades, three children and several redefined roles later, she is Co-Managing...
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Dua Green, CEO of AJC (Allen Jack + Cottier) — a Sydney architecture practice of around eighty people, celebrating 70 years and recently recognised with the NSW Enduring Architecture Award. The two first met at the Australian Design Review 30UNDER30 leadership retreat in Bali, and Dua’s story is...
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Julie Ockerby, Director of Client Relationships & Design at WMK Architecture and the founder of Meli Studio — one of Australia’s early innovators in aged care, retirement and healthcare interior design. Julie’s path is anything but linear: a few intense years as a registered nurse, then marketing roles...
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Richard Austin, CEO of Omnii — Australia’s largest fire engineering and fire protection consultancy, working across health, rail, defence, education and major projects from Cross River Rail to Darling Harbour. Richard’s path is anything but linear: hospitality, travel, media, financial services and shared-service procurement before the built environment. He’s also a keen cyclist and co-founder...
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Ali Bounds, co-CEO of BVN — one of Australia’s leading architecture and design practices, which turns 100 this year. One of the industry’s younger CEOs and a champion of the education sector, Ali has spent 16 years at BVN, becoming an equal principal in 2019 and stepping into...
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Karl May, Managing Director of Turner — the Sydney- and London-based urban design, architecture and interiors studio he helped start in 2001 and has grown, at times 20% a year, for over 25 years. A graduate who cut his teeth in Malaysia and New York before helping build...
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Cathryn Greville, the inaugural CEO of NAWIC — the National Association of Women in Construction. A former construction lawyer turned government regulator, peak-body advocate and, most recently, a UK-based leader of sector-wide cultural change, Cathryn brings a rare, systems-level view of why construction struggles to attract and keep...
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with James Rosenwax — Managing Director of Buildings & Places for Australia and New Zealand at AECOM, and a former Regional Director for NSW and ACT. James is a landscape architect by training who, over 30 years, rose from a small planning practice absorbed into AECOM to leading a...
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Dr Kate Meyrick — Director at Urbis, former CEO of THI, and one of Australia’s most respected urbanists and placemakers. With more than three decades of international experience across Australia, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA, Kate has spent her career on a single throughline: the...
