Be Inspired Podcast

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...

Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Hamish Davies, a director of Plus Studio — the trans-Tasman practice (formerly Plus Architecture) whose Auckland and Christchurch studios he leads with business partner Matthew Charles. A New Zealand architect who grew up in rural Manawatu and built a career across Wellington, Ireland, Melbourne and Auckland, Hamish brings...

Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Matthew Mackey — National Service Lead for Cost & Commercial Management at Arcadis and founder of Property Leaders Brisbane. Originally from the north of England, Matthew arrived in Brisbane in 2010 knowing no one, stepping down from a director role in Manchester to a senior cost manager position...

Episode Summary Episode OverviewSeton Walsh-Rose sits down with Michael Bailey — Director of Open Architecture Studio in Brisbane, a team of nearly 20 with a growing integrated office in the Philippines. Michael’s practice is built around community and social infrastructure: education, tourism, arts and culture, and sport. He’s one of the most tech-forward architecture leaders...

Episode Summary Seton Walsh-Rose sits down with Lynette Apostolou — CEO of Jackson Teece, a 50-year-old architecture practice with offices in Brisbane, Sydney, Japan, and a satellite presence in China and Taiwan. Lynette is on her second stint at Jackson Teece (eight months in, having doubled the business) and brings one of the most commercially...

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...