Housing Management Conference 2024
The Studio

Mr Harvie was elected as an MSP for the Glasgow region in 2003, has served as Convenor of the Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee during session 3, and as Co-Leader or Co-Convenor of the Scottish Green Party since 2008. He was appointed Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants’ Rights in August 2021. 

Before joining Changeworks, Josiah was CEO of social enterprise support agency FirstPort. Josiah is an expert in strategy and one of Scotland’s leading social entrepreneurs and a champion of supporting innovative and equitable solutions to tackling the climate emergency and addressing issued faced by people in our communities.

Josiah will lead Changeworks into an ambitious period of growth and expansion as part of the organisation’s 2022-25 strategy Decarbonising Scotland’s Homes.

This includes evidencing impact and providing actionable insights to inform delivery of current and future projects and programmes by Changeworks and external clients. Joanna leads a team of dedicated Impact Evaluation specialists committed to helping clients accelerate their transition to net zero and raising the standard of evaluation on domestic retrofit projects. As part of her role, Joanna ensures alignment of Changeworks’ impact evaluation methodology with industry standards, including PAS2035 and BS40101.

Lauren works with a range of clients including local authorities, housing associations and the Scottish Government towards achieving net zero. This includes exploring difficulties and solutions of Zero Direct Emissions Heating retrofit by social landlords for ClimateXChange on behalf of the Scottish Government. Her impact evaluation experience includes design and implementation of evaluation for Energy Efficient Scotland: Area Based Schemes (EES: ABS), Social Housing Net Zero Heat Fund and Green Economy Fund.

 Stephen has over 15 years experience as project director and technical consultant, from design, delivery and commissioning of renewable generation, heat networks and low carbon heating projects to leading on decarbonisation strategies. Since 2017, Stephen has led on Changeworks’ development and delivery of Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) support for 25 local authorities, from the initial phases of Scottish Government pilot projects to creation of the final strategies.

Kris creates data solutions using software such as Power BI and others. His team leads on stock analysis, where they take data from multiple sources to create valuable reports and recommend actional outcomes. He is experienced in gathering data and translating findings to present large datasets for Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing (EESSH) projects.

Laura has over 8 years’ experience of working in the housing sector with previous roles at the Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland and Dunedin Canmore Housing Association, now part of the Wheatley Group. Before joining the housing sector, Laura spent over 10 years in the Scottish tourism industry, where she held a number of account management and operational roles.

Paul has over 20 years’ experience in the energy industry, building on extensive knowledge of supply chain management and operational delivery. Testament to the actions of Paul’s team is a growing portfolio of customers with whom we continue to deliver new, innovative work.