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Environment Top 5: Neurodiversity in Sustainability
This episode is a neurodiversity special, focused on Neurodiversity in Sustainability from two Chartered Environmentalists themselves.
We cover:
- Neurodiversity skills in sustainability and it’s importance
- Personal reflections
- Professional membership and neurodiversity
- How to help families
- Key Takeaways
This special episode of EnvCast features two Chartered Environmentalists, Gill Mulroe and Niki Roach.
Speaker bios:
Gill Mulroe FISEP CEnv FCMI CMgr FCIWM CRWM:
Gill Mulroe is the Environment and Sustainability Manager at Anchor, England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for older people, with over 35,500 socially rented units, over 12,500 leasehold units, and over 120 care homes (almost 6,000 rooms).
Shortlisted for Environment Manager of the Year 2025 and named to the Environmental 100 Leaders List, Gill brings over two decades of cross-sector experience across housing, banking, public service and private industry.
Gill has led strategic programmes in the UK and across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, embedding decarbonisation into core operations, and shapes national policy through advisory roles, including her former role as Climate Commissioner for Yorkshire and Humber.
In November 2024, Gill was invited to speak at the United Nations in Geneva, representing the intersection of climate action, social equity and inclusive leadership on an international stage.
A triple chartered professional holding qualifications with CIWM, CEnv and CMI, Gill also holds three fellowships with CIWM, ISEP and CMI. She is the Founder of The Climate Connector, a climate storytelling platform that has reached over 180,000 people, centred on human-led narratives that connect environmental sustainability with accessible storytelling, stripping back jargon and making complex information meaningful to all. Gill is a vocal advocate for neurodiversity within the sustainability profession, drawing on her own lived experience to challenge the profession to become more inclusive, accessible and representative of the people it serves.
Niki Roach FCIWEM C.WEM CEnv:
Niki is convinced that by connecting the right people and thinking across systems, anything is possible. She has spent her career trying to do just that.
She is host of Planet Possible – an award-winning water, nature and climate podcast, a former President of CIWEM (2020-21) and a co-founder and Director of Blue & Green Consulting.
Niki has worked in the water and environment sector, primarily in the UK and she is currently focussed on delivering nature-based solutions to solve tricky environmental problems. She Chairs a range of industry groups including the SSWAN Network and is a Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commissioner.
Beyond work Niki is interested in a low water use economy and is currently practising what she preaches by living in a home based on those principles.
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