Episode Summary Host Seton Walsh-Rose is joined by Godfrey Frederick, Director of National Strategic Partnerships at BSE (Building Services Engineers) and one of the four co-founders of Tree of Knowledge, the free quarterly networking event that now runs in 10 locations across Australia and New Zealand. Godfrey traces a career from manufacturing engineering through semiconductors…
Episode Summary Host Seton Walsh-Rose is joined by James Kelly, Co-Managing Partner at CHC (ClarkeHopkinsClarke) and leader of its national Seniors Living & Care team. James grew up just outside Geelong, spent almost a decade under pioneering architect Yvonne von Hartel, then joined CHC to help build its aged care practice, becoming a partner just…
Episode Summary Miranda Sheehan has been at PDT Architects for close to thirty years, and the Brisbane firm itself has been going for eighty-eight — six generations of ownership, in a profession where most practices do not outlast their founders. She is one of three directors who deliberately chose not to appoint a managing director….
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 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…