YH111225 Mentoring workshop with Social networking

Join ISEP Yorkshire & Humber at our end-of-year mentoring and networking in-person event, hosted at The University of Leeds.

About to graduate and seeking a job in sustainability? Or thinking about pivoting to a green career? Then this is the perfect opportunity for you! Members of our regional steering group will be there to share their career stories and how ISEP is supporting the sustainability profession in our region. We will also have representatives from ISEP Futures to chat about how you can benefit from being a part of a global professional sustainability community.

Already an ISEP member in the region? Join us for an engaging evening of networking and collaboration with peers from across the sustainability and environmental sectors. Together, we’ll share insights, exchange experiences, and explore the latest trends shaping a more sustainable future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and contribute to the movement for a greener world. Book your space today!

Key reasons to attend this event

Valuable opportunity for students to understand careers in sustainability and to network with sustainability professionals working in various industries. For existing environmental professions an opportunity from other sustainability professions and network with regional colleagues.

Speakers

Morag Robertson

Bio

Morag is a consultant at Polaris with expertise in logistics and freight strategy, focusing on environmental issues. She graduated with First Class Honours in Environmental Management and worked at Sainsbury’s as their Logistics Environmental Manager. After Sainsbury’s, Morag worked on freight policy and research with various consultancies, working with clients such as the Department for Transport and Transport Scotland. She helps clients develop freight strategies, including transport decarbonisation plans. Morag is the Chair of the Yorkshire & Humberside Steering group and has been involved in the regional activities for many years as a means to encourage sharing best practices, engaging in new ideas, and is a keen advocate of creating the right environment for constructive debate. In her free time, she enjoys walking her dog, Dave, training for triathlons, and maybe the occasional pint!

Andrew Thomson

Bio

Chartered Environmentalist with over 25 years experience leading corporate sustainability, environmental and social governance (ESG), and risk management. Held senior management positions including in-house environmental and sustainability lead for the Yorkshire Building Society, CEO of Hong Kong's Business Environment Council, Senior Environmental Advisor for Hallliburton and Consultant with Hyder (now Arcadis).

Colin Robertson

Bio

Colin, MISEP, CEnv, is an experienced environmentalist and Manager of Sustainable Business at Yorkshire Water. As both an in-house professional and external advisor his career has spanned multiple sectors including built environment, food, drink and hospitality, utilities, and construction.

Peter Leighton-Jones

Bio

Diligent and meticulous programme management expert and procurement practitioner, with 20 years of specialism and leadership in the sustainable development arena. My time in the public sector has granted me strategic and operational influence over delivering transformational sustainability-centric change within organisations and districts. In a senior capacity, I have delivered multi-million pound projects and programmes from start-to-finish, having developed a broad range of skills, covering commercial and technical facets through to effective communication, strategic oversight, and stakeholder engagement. My primary motivation for becoming a vocational environmentalist was simple; I wanted to address and ultimately reverse the climatic and ecosystem damage that humanity has caused to our planet. Linked to this, finding pragmatic and innovative solutions to the issues and challenges facing both society and the environment is my passion.

Clemens Yuen

Bio

Clemens is currently delivering Low Carbon Fuels policy for the UK transport sector, supporting the operations of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) scheme and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) mandate. He is primarily responsible for assessing the life-cycle emissions of renewable fuels and the feedstocks from which the fuel is made from. Dedicated to sustainability in his career, he previously led a global ports operator on the development of its first sustainability strategy and emissions reduction programme. Outside of his career, Clemens also engages actively in sustainability, creating a take-away box sharing campaign at his alma mater to reduce waste, and mentoring future sustainability talents to prepare them for transiting into the green workforce.

Gordon Mitchel

Bio

Dr Gordon Mitchell (MISEP C. Env) is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography, University of Leeds. His research addresses environmental management, with applied experience in environmental planning, natural resource management and impact appraisal, often through development and/or application of numerical models. After early work on marine toxicology (Shell UK), he focussed on the dynamics and management of carbon loss from upland catchments before then developing diffuse loading models for urban catchments to identify pollutant hotspots to aid retrofit planning for sustainable drainage systems. This work was extended in national source apportionment work so as to provide a mechanism for evaluating programmes of measures to meet water quality objectives. His work has since broadened to address the environmental sustainability of urban-regions, including modelling on water resources, water quality, transport, energy, air quality, spatial planning and ecosystem services. He has experience in impact appraisal, including EIA and SEA, and in a range of other techniques, including multi-criteria appraisal. He has worked extensively on environmental justice issues, including for the Environment Agency, Scottish Executive, Deputy Chief Scientist, Chief Medical Officer, Treasury and NGOs. His sustainability indicators methodology PICABUE has been widely applied internationally. He has c. 250 publications, and has acted as reviewer for all the main UKRI councils, and ten overseas research councils. He also holds an RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold medal for demonstrating how gardeners can implement sustainable drainage principles.

Kirsty Peck - Senior Education Engagement Officer, ISEP

Bio

After completing a degree in Ecology and Environmental Science from the University of Edinburgh in 2018, Kirsty joined ISEP where she now works as Education Engagement Officer. She focusses on promoting ISEP membership to students, graduates and early career professionals through attending events and delivering presentations. She also works to create an engaging programme of events, webinars and resources for ISEP’s entry-level members with support from the ISEP Futures Network. Alongside this, she works with ISEP's university partners to ensure that staff and students get the support they need from ISEP.

Venue

School of Earth and Environment seminar room,

Woodhouse,

University of Leeds,

Leeds,

LS2 9JT

This event is hosted by ISEP Yorkshire & Humberside, but we welcome members from other regions to join us as well. Why not connect with ISEP Yorkshire & Humberside on our LinkedIn page, here.

This event counts as 1 hour of ISEP recognised CPD. You can add this to your ISEP CPD. Please check our CPD guidance pages at www.isepglobal.org/skills/cpd for further details on how to do this.