The Last Mile
The Last Mile
Podcast Description
Listen to a series of six interviews featuring women in equity positions within the Champions of Change Architecture Group practices. All have in common an ability to shift their mindsets and facilitate personalised sponsorship techniques crucial for success. By sharing stories, successes, and failures, these leaders can influence others and drive positive change.Why does this matter? The architecture industry widely misunderstands the value of sponsorship as an equaliser and accelerator, particularly when it comes enabling more women to progress in their professions and cover the "Last Mile" to practice ownership. This podcast aims to change this narrative. We seek to empower architectural professionals in leadership positions to embrace sponsorship as best practice.Through the direct experiences of the women who graciously participated in this podcast series, we hope to illustrate how these strategies can result in meaningful cultural shifts towards a more equitable industry. The Last Mile is published in collaboration with Parlour.This podcast is an initiative of the Sponsorship Action Group from Champions of Change Architecture Group. BVN, nettletontribe, Bates Smart, PTW and Woods Bagot were all involved.For complementary material, read / watch the Stepping Up on Sponsorship resources.
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Content Themes
The podcast primarily focuses on the themes of sponsorship, professional growth, and gender equity within the architecture industry. Topics discussed include the importance of flexible sponsorship, the role of culture in supporting quiet achievers, and strategies for overcoming the challenges women face in their careers, as seen in episodes featuring insights from leaders like Sally Campbell on unlocking potential and Georgia Singleton on workplace dynamics.
Listen to a series of six interviews featuring women in equity positions within the Champions of Change Architecture Group practices.
All have in common an ability to shift their mindsets and facilitate personalised sponsorship techniques crucial for success. By sharing stories, successes, and failures, these leaders can influence others and drive positive change.
Why does this matter? The architecture industry widely misunderstands the value of sponsorship as an equaliser and accelerator, particularly when it comes enabling more women to progress in their professions and cover the “Last Mile” to practice ownership.
This podcast aims to change this narrative. We seek to empower architectural professionals in leadership positions to embrace sponsorship as best practice.
Through the direct experiences of the women who graciously participated in this podcast series, we hope to illustrate how these strategies can result in meaningful cultural shifts towards a more equitable industry.
The Last Mile is published in collaboration with Parlour.
This podcast is an initiative of the Sponsorship Action Group from Champions of Change Architecture Group. BVN, nettletontribe, Bates Smart, PTW and Woods Bagot were all involved.
For complementary material, read / watch the Stepping Up on Sponsorship resources.
Georgia alludes to the many personal and professional rewards sponsorship can bestow on both the sponsor and sponsee, and the benefits that fostering a culture of sponsorship and advocacy can bring to a practice as a whole.
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Georgia Singleton is a Director, Global Leader – Education & Science of Woods Bagot. Considering the impact of architecture on user experience, Georgia is interested in understanding how the workplace environment can affect the behaviour of researchers and practitioners within health precincts and using that information to inform the way space is configured.
Having worked on a diverse range and scale of architectural and interiors focused projects, Georgia seeks to push traditional building and fit-out typologies with dynamic, highly integrated and research-driven solutions.
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The Last Mile is an initiative of the Sponsorship Action Group of the Champions of Change Architecture Group. BVN, nettletontribe, Bates Smart, PTW and Woods Bagot were all involved.
Interviews were conducted by Brian Clohessy, Isabella Aliberti, Tia Soulakellis and Sam de Jongh and are published in collaboration with Parlour.
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