Management profiles
Jon Anstey – Melbourne Fellowship Program Facilitator
Email: jon.anstey@csl.org.au
Phone: 0409 184 239 (mob)
Until July 2010, Jon worked with the Netherlands-based NGO, Wetlands International, as Global Corporate Relations Manager.
From August 2005 to December 2007, Jon led post-tsunami environmental recovery programmes in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, as Country Programme Manager for UNEP’s Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation. Prior to that, Jon was based for five years in Geneva as a lawyer with the UN Compensation Commission.
Jon also has five years experience as a commercial lawyer with Clayton Utz Lawyers, in his native town of Melbourne.
In the academic field, Jon holds a Masters of Law degree in environment and natural resources from Melbourne University.
Leisure-wise, Jon spends time with his wife Nina and any other takers, indulging in telemark skiing, mountaineering, rock-climbing, playing tennis, practicing ashtanga yoga and singing in whichever choirs are desperate enough to accept him.
Kate Harris – Sydney Program Director
Kate is passionate about the continued learning and development of both herself and others. This is achieved through engaging individuals with their own vision and creativity for sustainability and leadership. A former business coach, facilitator/ mediator and performer, Kate’s style is supportive, motivational and innovative.
Having recently completed a Master of Arts (Social Ecology), Kate is dedicated to empowering individuals to achieve positive and sustainable change throughout communities, organisations and across the world. With over 15 years experience in health care, Kate also has a Diploma of Applied Science (Nursing), Diploma of Energetic Healing and is a qualified meditation teacher.
Kate also believes that awareness of self, development and integrity of human values, communication and negotiation skills are all key factors in achieving success in the areas of leadership and sustainability.
Email: kate.harris@csl.org.au
Phone: 0418 863 325 (mob)
Ariana Bourke – Online Program Director
Ariana has gone from a career in advertising
to her current work in sustainability, setting up the innovative Online Program at the Centre for Sustainability
Leadership.
In between the transition from consumer goods marketing to online sustainability leadership education, she managed and developed London’s largest eco-aware, health and organic beauty centre before starting her own
green business. Her company created a 300-page guide about sustainable living for the London market.
Before returning to Melbourne in 2009 she managed the rebranding for the renewable energy company, the RES group.
Ariana has an interest in creating value-driven projects and businesses that respect the triple bottom line and are a joy for people to be involved with.
Email: ariana.bourke@csl.org.au
Phone: 0431 944 340 (mob)
Tony Robertson – Communications Advisor
After a working life at the busy intersection where business, politics and the media collide, Tony Robertson has found a new lease of life as communications advisor for the Centre for Sustainability Leadership.
Tony is just one example of the huge range of skills that the Centre can tap into through its wide network of volunteers. Having worked as a print journalist in Perth, Melbourne and London, Tony turned his sights to politics, working for both sides of the political fence as a media advisor. This included serving as senior media advisor to former WA Premier Richard Court. The next move was into corporate PR, with a particular emphasis on energy issues. That in turn led to his appointment as head of corporate affairs for national energy infrastructure giant Alinta. After managing the media fallout from a controversial $13 billion takeover of Alinta by Babcock and Brown and Singapore Power (at the time Australia’s third largest corporate transaction), Tony began looking for new horizons. A week after leaving Alinta, he was at work in the Centre’s Melbourne head office, where he is responsible for communications, media and publications activities. Tony also provides in-house media training and
coaching.
“I was really attracted by the Centre’s vision of training the next generation of green leaders and how that could be translated to big business,” said Tony. “Lots of companies have sustainability managers or sustainability divisions, but that’s not enough. We need to ensure that the next generation of business leaders, such as CEOs and CFOs and CIOs, have specific training in and understanding of sustainability issues. Climate change, emissions trading, energy efficiency, community activism, employee engagement – these are not just “soft” sustainability issues. They go to the heart of business decision making and the bottom line.”
Tony says the most rewarding part of his role is helping Fellowship Program participants understand the importance of the media and how to use it. “There are plenty of smart, passionate people out there, which is great. But the ones who know how to communicate, who know how to tell their story, who know how to inspire others to come along for the ride – they are the ones who are going to create real change. They’ll be the ones we remember in ten years time. And with the rise of social media and citizen journalism, it’s an exciting time for anyone who has got something interesting to say.”
Outside of his volunteer work with the Centre, Tony is investigating opportunities to bring his skills and experience to the renewable energy sector.
Email: tony.robertson@csl.org.au
Phone: 0419 867 230 (mob)