Episode 33 - “Adapting, Surviving and Thriving” with Toby Kent

Moments of Clarity

Today on Moments of Clarity, I speak to Toby Kent.

Toby was Australia's first Chief Resilience Officer. Before this, Toby spent two decades working, across five continents on significant corporate and community-based partnerships. He has worked internationally to help major corporate, government, and non-government organisations achieve their commercial and operational objectives. Toby is a Board member of the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia and an Associate of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne. He has a Masters degree in Housing and Urbanisation from the London School of Economics. Toby is now working on his newest venture EllisKent consulting with his friend and colleague, Brett Ellis.

Toby and I discuss his work in Melbourne as Chief Resilience Officer, sustainability and urban planning, the similarities and differences between working with government and corporates, the impact of Covid, facing the climate crisis, individual resilience vs collective resilience, how to make progress in the face of inaction and cynicism, Toby’s personal journey of resilience and much more.

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobykent1/

https://mobile.twitter.com/tobykent01

https://www.elliskent.com/

https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/resilient-melbourne-strategy.pdf

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/meet-the-man-helping-to-future-proof-melbourne-20200418-p54kzi.html

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/takeover-melbourne/

https://resilientmelbourne.com.au/takeover-melbourne/

https://resilientmelbourne.com.au/

https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/about-melbourne/melbourne-profile/smart-city/open-innovation/Pages/open-innovation.aspx

https://www.bcsda.org.au/post/media-release-bcsd-australia-welcomes-toby-kent-to-board

Time Stamps

Introduction 0:00 - 3:45

Part 1 3:46 - 33:05

Part 2 33:06 - 64:55

Part 3 64:56 - 88:53

Outro 88:54 - 89:33

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