Meet The Team
Jim Gleeson
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR
Jim is a leading community planning, engagement and land development practitioner with 28 years’ experience delivering community-led projects and programs at the intersection of industry, government, tourism and place with mining and renewables companies, Aboriginal corporations, urban developers and governments.
Jim works 'bottom up' and 'top down' to identify and realise community aspirations, create dialogue between communities and decision makers, and engage the processes required to create sustainable, mutually beneficial outcomes. He is experienced in working in urban, regional and remote regions. He is skilled in translating aspirations into built outcomes and enterprises.
Jim is a Community and Urban Planner and the Founder and Director of Plan C.
Sarah Burgess
COMMUNITY AND URBAN PLANNING LEAD
Sarah is a dynamic urban planner specialising in urban design and planning policy. She is passionate about helping local communities and stakeholders to co-design quality places that will deliver a healthy and sustainable future for all.
Sarah has over 20 years’ experience in public and private practice in Australia and the United Kingdom, working on projects and policies at local and strategic levels.
Sarah understands the importance of delivering user-friendly strategies and policies that are easy to understand and have practical strategies and clear actions for implementation. She has worked extensively with key stakeholders to develop policies, tools and resources for communities, government and industry to connect with people and place.
Hayley Seears
COMMUNITY TRUSTS & REMOTE PLANNING LEAD
Hayley is passionate about engaging with people in order to understand their values and aspirations for a place or project and being able to translate that information into great outcomes for the community.
Hayley is a Planner with eight years’ experience working in urban, regional and remote locations, working with communities and key stakeholders on a range of strategic planning, land use planning, community and economic development and tourism projects. Hayley’s experience at Plan C has involved undertaking community engagement with a variety of stakeholders, drafting strategic plans and associated reports, preparing community development strategies, and writing grant applications for clients.
Nick Kamols
SENIOR PLANNER
Nick is an innovative, highly motivated planner, with experience in strategic and statutory planning across the public sector, private sector and academia.
Nick uses his unique perspective to devise creative solutions to systemic planning problems, including through his research into the institutional constraints affecting participatory planning, and the relationships between emerging technologies and our built and natural environments. Nick is driven by purpose and co-founded a social enterprise which repurposes used batteries and solar panels to give renewable energy to off-grid communities. Nick works across the full breadth of projects at Plan C, spanning urban to remote.
Steve McAllan
COORDINATOR YOUTH AND COMMUNITY PROGRAM
Steve is coordinating a new Youth and Community Program in Borroloola, funded by the MRM Community Benefits Trust. He is using his skills and networks from previous youth-focused roles to establish a new entity that focuses on young people's wellbeing. Steve will work with local young people to increase the delivery of wellbeing activities as well as attracting new resources and programs to the region.