Changemaker.
Speaker. Storyteller.
Secondhand queen.
Nine Newspapers call her “PR for the planet”.
Creator of the original
RUOK day,
Tamara turned mental health stigma into a national conversation.
She started
Buy Nothing New Month,
the global movement, putting “circularity” into practice before it was a policy.
She craned
all-electric homes onto FedSquare, normalising sustainable living.
She towed
a tiny house with a big message across Australia,
for the health of our people and planet.
She created
The New Joneses
EV Road Trip - the funny climate solutions series, normalising sustainability,
with Hollywood actors, heavy metal heroes, coal-miners, farmers, AFL players, foul-mouthed puppets and more.
Oh yeah…
she’s bought nearly nothing new, for nearly 20 years.
Audiences leave
Tamara’s talks informed, inspired and ready to act.
"Tamara’s passion for her work
and ability to inspire
left a lasting
impact on our entire team.
Her insights challenged us
to think differently
about sustainability
and ignited a renewed
sense of purpose in our work."
Marianne Doyle,
interim CEO
VicReturn
Work
"Hopefulness is not
a neutral position.
It is adversarial.
It is the warrior emotion
that can lay waste to cynicism”
Nick Cave
Speaking Ideas
Keep it Simple:
From an idea to a movement
Antarctica to Broken Hill:
Hopeful action everywhere
The Circular Economy:
From “Consumer” to Citizen,
for our pockets + planet
Financial Freedom
Buying Nothing New
Climate Action:
Whose job?
Corporate? Government? Citizen?
The Science of Storytelling:
How “Toadie” from Neighbours
is a climate solution
The New Joneses:
Worm farms and super funds -
the power in our pockets
How more, more, more
gives us less, less, less.
Tamara can respond to your team’s unique
challenges with a bespoke presentation.
Speaking formats
visionary and relatable,
Tamara’s message
resonates for:
Keynotes, Panels, Webinars,
Strategy Workshops,
Corporate Leadership and Staff Engagement.
Tamara’s featured in:
ABC War On Waste
Co-Hosting ABC Conversation Hour with Virginia Trioli
BBC Radio
Ch7 Sunrise
Sydney Morning Herald
Ch7 News
Ch10 News
SBS News
Ch9 News
3AW, 2GB
ABC Radio National
ABC 774
and loads more.
About Tamara
Antarctica, 2010:
On expedition to learn about climate change, Tamara and team are asked “how will you be part of the solution?”
Ever since, she’s created awarded communications and behaviour change campaigns.
Tamara engages mainstream audiences with the local solutions we have to the global challenges we face.
“Taking green from mung-bean to mainstream”, Tamara’s message inspires audiences, generates global media coverage, simplifies complexity and shows how our choices create change.
Tamara is a 5x veteran of Burning Man, the world’s most radical festival of ideas, where the ethos is ‘leave no trace’.
Tamara’s worked with:
CSIRO, Momentum Energy, BMW, Nissan, Hickory, Elenberg Fraser, Belong, Polestar, Bank Australia, UniSuper, AusPost, Sendle, JetCharge, Enphase, BOUNDLESS Earth, VicReturn, TESLA, Cleanaway, Curtin University, Melbourne University Melbourne Business School, City of Melbourne, City of Greater Geelong, City of Whitehorse, City of Stonnington, Meri Bek Council, City of North Sydney, Sustainability Victoria, DELWP, PrefabAUS, The Antarctic Science Foundation.
Awards
2016 Danish Think Tank Sustainia100
Top100 Solutions to Global Challenges
2014 Melbourne Award
Contribution to Sustainability
by an Individual.
2013 Earth Hour Award
Creative Arts
2012 Earth Hour Award
Future Makers Finalist
Fellowships
Boundless Bridge Builders
The Regenerative Leader
Cranlana Executive Colloquium
Australian Progress Fellowship
Centre for Sustainability Leadership
Antarctic Leadership on the Edge
Consulting
With 15 years at the intersection of circularity, sustainability, climate science, behaviour change, PR and storytelling, Tamara designs communications and sustainability strategies to inspire action, drive positive change and help organisations tell their sustainability story.
Tamara lives and works on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation in Naarm, where First Nations people have been coming together, innovating, sharing stories and shaping ideas for over 60,000 years. Sovereignty was never ceded.