Nick focusses on developing business systems that deliver whole of community impact and uplift and has created a community development model to assist regional communities to tackle some of the critical issues that are facing them such as housing supply, population growth, skills, training, and employment pathways. In tackling the housing market failure that is constraining many regional cities and towns, he brings 20 year’s experience in innovation, complex systems management, project delivery, and development. He is also passionate about sustainable communities, collective impact, and placemaking. He is the co-founder for PassievPlace and Shift Regional, providing employment and housing solutions for regional Australia, and has extensive engagement and project experience in regional communities both here and overseas. Nick has sat on the Property Council’s Sustainability Board and is an Associate Director of the renowned Social Licence firm Futureye. Nick has deep insights into the complex social, economic, and community issues facing our regions. He is currently delivering both digital and physical platforms focused on regional resilience and community development. PassivePlace will deliver a unique 120+ dwelling regional housing project, demonstrating the power of community co-design, the need to aggregate housing demand, and collective impact. The project is an illustration of complex system mapping and deep community and business engagement and provides a framework for tackling the chronic and systemic market failure in the regional housing markets that are constraining businesses, councils, and communities alike. Nick’s keen skills as a facilitator, engager, innovator, and project manager he allowed him to created significant cross-sector relationships to facilitate and deliver change and meaningful impact for communities.Nick has many productive relationships in design/construction industry with major stakeholders and has establishing strategic commercial and public relationships. Highly proficient in identifying needs and requirements for projects, and implementation and management from initiation through to completion and has delivered projects many organisations including: ABN Amro, AV Jennings, ASX, Crown Limited, Centro Group, Fairfax Media, Lyons Architects, Lend Lease, MAB, Mirvac Group, Pacific Hotels, Pacific Brands, Qantas Airways Limited, Smorgon Group, Ramsay Health Care, The Children's Hospital, Spotless Group, TAB Corp Holdings Limited, Tatts Group, Toll Holdings, Transfield Group, and Westfield Group.