Abstract
As project managers and engineers, we shape more than buildings — we shape the planet’s future. This session explores how project management can evolve from efficiency-driven delivery to regenerative impact, where materials, methods, and mindsets are circular by design. Drawing from knowledge from schools that drive impact – like Parsons School of Design – The New School, New York City, and their Healthy Materials Lab, we’ll uncover how integrating academic research, material innovation, and cross-disciplinary learning can redefine project outcomes. Importantly, India is already home to emerging sustainable material pioneers — innovators whose work needs to be recognized, scaled, and integrated into mainstream project ecosystems. The discussion invites PMI professionals to envision a future where projects don’t just sustain — they restore.
About the speaker
Fancy George is a passionate and dedicated leader in Human centric workplace design. She has a keen focus on creative and analytical thinking, and she empowers clients with innovative design solutions. She is an Architect who has watched workplaces transform over a career that spans 3 decades. She is a change leader and a CoreNet accredited Master of Corporate Real Estate in “Workplace strategy in Methodologies and Practice”. Driven by strong communication skills and an insatiable curiosity, she is dedicated to delivering results with measurable outcomes that positively impact life and planet within design. Her passion for learning, idea generation, and creativity fuels her drive for excellence. George has lead large-scale campus projects of over a million square feet, creating human-centric and sustainable workplaces for Fortune 500 companies and global industry giants.
George is also the co-founder of WiREnet World, a not-for-profit organization that works to promote women’s leadership and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the real estate industry in India. Her influence extends globally as an elected committee member of CoreNet global India Chapter driving membership and advocating change for the India chapter in the Southern region.
She is a sought-after speaker and thought leader on workplace design, and an advisor for several workplace publications and knowledge forums. She is passionate about applying circular, user experience, and universal design principles to her work, aiming to deliver life-centric solutions that enhance the well-being and productivity of the users of the built environment that she creates.