Clair Dougherty - National Conservation Planning Manager at Bush Heritage Australia

Clair has fifteen years experience in conservation planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and reporting using the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Clair has qualifications in Social Science, Environmental Science and Environmental Management and is the National Conservation Planning Coordinator at Bush Heritage Australia. Clair is responsible for coordinating, developing and deploying Bush Heritage’s team of conservation coaches and delivering coaching support to Bush Heritage staff and partners. She is an experienced trainer in the use of the Open Standards and Miradi and its integration with other business systems. She delivers training in CS and supporting systems and tools. Clair has experience in institutionalising the Conservation Standards (CS) and its supporting systems and tools, including Miradi - managing a portfolio of 93 Miradi projects within a Program. Clair is dedicated to the responsible use and protection of this beautiful planet, to human rights, diversity and equity.

Pip Walsh - Consultant at Community Solutions

Pip has over twenty-five years’ experience working in conservation and is highly regarded for her strategic planning skills. Pip worked on the leadership teams of WWF Australia, Greening Australia and Bush Heritage Australia with a strong focus on change management and systems development. At Bush Heritage she managed a 2 million ha portfolio of private protected areas and worked on developing systems and support for partner organisations to manage their own protected areas.

Pip has extensive experience in leading the use of the Conservation Standards. She works closely with a number of organisations in Australia and the Asia Pacific as a Conservation Coach, through which networks she shares her passion for equipping teams to learn from their projects and each other. Pip brings together strong policy and evaluation experience, a high level of facilitation skills as well as a sound understanding of a diversity of funding, governance and operational models.

Leah Feuerherdt - Regional Coordinator at Conservation Management

Based in Queensland, Leah has spent almost a decade working with remote Aboriginal communities in the beautiful desert Country of north west South Australia, and has a background in NRM, community engagement and pest management. Leah has experience working with multiple stakeholders including pastoralists, volunteers, government agencies and Indigenous groups. In 2015, Leah helped co-facilitate some Healthy Country Planning workshops and immediately saw the value in the strategic and participatory process, and is now loving supporting several Ranger teams in QLD and SA with the development and implementation of their Healthy Country Plans.