Be Inspired Podcast

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...