Tackling sustainability and resilience challenges together
Trusted independent leadership driving diverse collaboration & innovation
Today’s sustainability and resilience challenges are urgent and complex. They require strong leaders to deliver innovative solutions through rich and diverse strategic collaborations, partnerships, and projects. They need the best hearts and minds working together – across disciplines, sectors and interests – moving in one direction towards a future we can be proud of.
Lauren Walker does just that. She is a changemaker who works collaboratively with clients, stakeholders and technical experts to develop and lead strategic initiatives that deliver pragmatic, leading-edge solutions to complex sustainability and resilience challenges.
Lauren Walker (MA Hons)
Strategic Project Leader
“Now more than ever we must bring our different perspectives and expertise and work together.”
Since 2003
Lauren Walker first established her sustainability consulting business in 2003 after early career sustainability roles with Fletcher Challenge Forests (Rotorua) and PricewaterhousCoopers (Canada).
Focus
To help create transformational change that ensures the future sustainability and resilience of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Mātauranga Māori
Bringing diverse stakeholders and experts together to develop solutions that will stabilise the climate, improve resilience and protect and enhance biodiversity.
Involving iwi Māori, respecting tikanga and honouring and weaving mātauranga Māori into projects where this aligns with iwi priorities.
Purpose
Working with clients who recognise the critical importance of rich and diverse collaboration, partnership, unity, focus and elbow grease.
Clients
“Lauren’s research, investigation, planning, management and interpersonal skills, coupled with a high level of confidence and comfort with stakeholder engagement, has enabled her to produce valuable performance improvements across the forestry sector and has made a real difference to lifting training performance and outcomes.”
– Peter Berg, Former President, NZ Forest Owners Association