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Event Overview: Aligning ESG for Project Success

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) provides organisations with a powerful lens for planning, delivering, and measuring success, and is increasingly recognised as a source of competitive advantage. Companies taking a strategic approach to ESG are embedding it into business strategy, investment decisions, risk management, and the way they build and maintain stakeholder trust. Many are also using ESG as a driver of innovation, unlocking opportunities to strengthen financial performance while creating positive outcomes for customers, employees, communities, and the environment.

For ESG to be effective, it cannot sit alongside BAU or projects as a checklist or reporting exercise. It must be fully embedded across business priorities and projects.

This event focuses on the critical role project managers play in translating ESG intent into operational reality. Through project governance, delivery decisions, and value-focused execution, projects become a key mechanism for embedding ESG into business operations, driving long-term value, resilience, and sustainable business performance. The session is meant to be practical and focused on what project managers can influence.

Question & Answer – Facilitated by Margaret Dos Santos

Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A

Following the presentation, a facilitated panel discussion will bring together sustainability and change management perspectives to explore how ESG and AI can be realistically applied within project delivery. The discussion will feature Todd Wegner, who will provide insights from an ESG and sustainability leadership perspective, and Shane Tyrell, who will share a change management and organisational transformation lens. The panel will be facilitated by Margaret Dos Santos, who will guide the conversation and challenge the speakers with practical questions that project managers often face in the real world, including competing priorities, delivery pressures, and the perceived scale of ESG responsibility. The discussion will explore why ESG matters at the project level, how project managers can influence outcomes, and how individual delivery decisions contribute to broader organisational and global impact. The session will conclude with an interactive audience Q&A.

What You’ll Explore and Take Away

This session focuses on how ESG shows up in real project delivery and what project managers can influence, including:

• Practical ways to embed ESG considerations into projects without creating parallel streams of work
• Applying ESG thinking to trade-offs, risk management, supplier choices, and success measures
• Real-world examples of how project managers have influenced ESG outcomes through project execution

About the Panel Speaker: Todd Wegner

Todd Wegner brings:

Todd Wegner brings over 20 years’ experience working with organisations across 25 countries to embed ESG into strategy, operations, and project delivery, helping build resilient businesses that deliver value, both profit and purpose.

About the Panel Speaker: Shane Tyrell

Shane Tyrell brings: 

Transformation leadership experience across Amazon Web Services, Deloitte, and Hewlett-Packard, with practical strategies to align strategy, people, and performance. Focused on delivering sustainable change through strong leadership and effective stakeholder engagement.

📅 Date: 26th March 2026
🕠 5:30pm arrival | 6:00pm start
📍 Location: AIH Level 3, 545 Kent St, Sydney New South Wales 2000 

If you’re a project manager interested in how ESG connects to practical delivery decisions, not just policy or reporting, this session is for you.