Smart Seeds has three key focus areas:
- Teaching collaboration – industry-wide, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational
- Expanding the capacity of our emerging leaders -building technical skills and design thinking expertise
- Tackling real-world challenges - through the co-creation of human-centred solutions
Each Smart Seeds programme is an activated community of leaders, passionate mentors and industry experts and advocates.
They help to set critical challenges, encourage teams to push the envelope, and open new connection pathways.
The 6-week programme is delivered in-person, virtually or as a hybrid experience.
Participants are exposed to a mixture of live sessions led by an innovation facilitator, curated resources and collaboration tools.
The Journey
Network of leaders and mentors
Cheryl de la Rey
Vice-Chancellor, University of Canterbury
Dr. Alan Finkel
Special Adviser to the Australian Government on Low Emissions Technology
Petar Milivojevic
Director – Architecture, GHD Design
Phil Wilson
CEO, Auckland Council
Angela Skandarajah
CEO, Development Victoria
Sarah FitzGerald
Future Energy Leader, Australia, GHD
Michael Ulph
Technical Director – Communications & Stakeholder Engagement, GHD
Rachel Walton
Service Design & Delivery Team Lead, Environment Canterbury
Daniel Oxnam
Principal Digital Strategist, Auckland Transport
Krystal Skinner
Innovation & Growth, Synergy
Thomas Burt
Business Improvement Manager, Lyttelton Port
Paul Dellow
Senior Economist - Natural Resources & Agriculture, GHD
Join our innovation ecosystem: Become a mentor, challenge champion, guest speaker, judge or advocate
Smart Seeds is transforming the way GHD and client organisations amplify our investment in emerging leaders. You can be involved as a mentor, challenge champion, guest speaker, judge or an advocate.
We invite you to bring your passion, expertise or network into a Smart Seeds programme and support new possibilities.
Join the collaborative ecosystem