Episode Summary Jess Noonan never meant to be a town planner — she wanted to be a nurse, or an accountant. Twenty years on she is a Senior Principal at Tract, co-hosts the PlanningXChange podcast, and tells host Seton Walsh-Rose that Victoria’s planning system has been reshaped in four or five years. Her verdict is…
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 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 Dino Vrynios — Managing Director of Das Studio, the Adelaide-based architecture practice he runs with his wife and co-founder Sarah. Dino’s journey is one of the most textured in the series: nanotechnology student turned nightclub operator turned architect, who worked through the GFC, had a burnout breakdown in…
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Toby Ewert — architect, co-founder of Ewert Leaf (60 staff, 14 years), co-founder of Landchecker (a proptech sold successfully to an investor), and now founder of Ewert Advisory and a co-working space called Two and a Half. Four years ago, Toby was diagnosed with a Type 2 glioma brain tumour. He’s had two craniotomies, stopped…
Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Scott Clements — Managing Director of Inertia Engineering, a 70-person civil, structural and flood engineering firm based in Brisbane with over 20 years of operation. Scott is at the forefront of applying AI to land subdivision and earthworks design, having partnered with software company Civics to develop a…
Episode Title: Industry Leaders Series Guest: Gerry Doyle – Chief Executive Officer, Tonkin Episode Overview This episode features Gerry Doyle, CEO of Tonkin, a multidisciplinary engineering firm operating across Australia with both metropolitan and regional offices. Gerry shares a deeply personal and honest journey—from struggling with depression and low emotional intelligence early in life, to…
Episode Title: Thriving with Neurodiversity – Diagnosis, Strengths, Parenting & Designing Neuroinclusive Workplaces Guest: Amanda Riley – Accredited Neurodiversity Coach, Founder: Thriving with Neurodiversity In this episode, Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Amanda Riley to explore leadership, purpose-driven design, and what it truly means to create impact in the built environment. Amanda shares her journey…
Episode Title: Designing the Circular Economy — How the Built Environment Can Move Beyond Waste Guest: Clayton Bristow (He/Him), Managing Director, FF&3 What does it take to shift the built environment from linear consumption to circular systems? In this episode of BE Inspired Podcast, Seton Walsh-Rose speaks with Clayton Bristow of FF&3 about embedding circular…