Design Conscious
Design Conscious is a podcast exploring diversity and leadership in environmental sustainability in the built environment. Sarah Lawlor interviews sustainability leaders involved in the built environment, from a range of roles including contractors, architects, developers, consultants, strategists and educationalists. Design Conscious is part of the 2020 International Women's Day scholarship, supported by NAWIC.
Design Conscious
Ian Van Eerdan on shifting the sustainability conversation from cost to value, why the purpose-driven nature of sustainability attracts diversity, and his ultimate aim to make his job obsolete
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Sarah Lawlor
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Season 1
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Episode 6
Sarah Lawlor (host) speaks to Ian Van Eerdan, Associate and Sustainability Group Manager at Northrop.
Ian shares his strategies of team management and leadership development through an awareness of personal strengths and weaknesses, and the need to shift the sustainability conversation from cost to value. Ian discusses why the purpose-driven nature of the sustainability profession attracts diversity, as well as Ian’s ultimate aim to make his job obsolete.
Design Conscious is a podcast exploring diversity and leadership in environmental sustainability in the built environment, supported by NAWIC.